Tell us about your experiences with nest boxes and other artificial bird nesting sites


What birds do you know using nesting boxes?

Wherever you live in the world we'd love to here from you about the artificial nest boxes or nesting sites created for birds.

Ordinary nest boxes, unusual nestboxes, boxes used by unusual species, boxes used by birds that don't normally use boxes, owl boxes, raptor boxes, sparrow boxes, colonial nesting boxes, nesting platforms, nesting trays, flycatchers boxes ...well you get the drift.

Have you got a nest box project on the go, are you thinking about a nest box scheme, what birds nest in boxes in your area, got a new idea about boxes, species that you think might use nest boxes....

We're going to keep a world list of species that use nestboxes ( or at least some sort of artificial place intentionally made by man. Tell us the ones you know ...

Got a good link for information about nestboxes? tell us , we'll add it to the links here

And why not send us a picture .....

Sunday, 13 June 2010


Another dreary day for weather in the UK, and what with the football last night ..good grief ..it's enough to make you want to go to work!

Had an interesting email about a guy in the UK who captured on a nestbox webcam a young Tree Sparrow ( Eurasian not American ) killing three of five young blue tits. The bird must be still too young to breed, even coming from the first brood, so can only be doing it as it wants a roosting site. Get some more boxes up I say, but then I would wouldn't I .

No but seriously, I keep stressing this, that if you have a successful series of birds nesting in your garden, all the youngsters are going to have to ship out if there aren't enough roosting places. So a few more boxes around the place will alleviate the stress even if they aren't used for breeding, and keep the birds in the area.

Had a nice email enquiry this morning from a guy wanting some Woodland B'Boxes, looks like Google is kicking in.
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