Hummingbird feeders require more maintenance than seed feeders and this maintenance is important. It will adversely affect the health of the birds if you do not keep their feeders clean and their sugar solution fresh.
Great-tailed grackles are highly adaptable and opportunistic foragers. Their diet includes insects, seeds, grains, small invertebrates, and human food waste, which allows them to take advantage of a wide range of habitats and changing conditions. This might also be why they can be known as dumpster divers in more populated areas.
So, inescapably, Malheur is a managed landscape – not a national park where the goal is to leave nature alone as much as possible. By managing the landscape, we make it more productive for the birds and wildlife that depend upon it.
Together, the emergence counts and acoustic surveys provide an important look at bat activity around Refuge Headquarters. They help Friends of Malheur better understand how these historic buildings are being used, and they offer a foundation for future stewardship of both the buildings and the wildlife that depend on them.
Rhonda learned how to make Tule ducks from Elise, and now they are both passing their culture and knowledge to the younger generation. Rhonda said, “Tule ducks are connection to the past and were used for survival.”
