Biodiversity in your Backyard (Cont.6)

How to Lure Birds to your Garden (Cont.)

Fruit-eating birds
 

Fruit eating birds are obviously attracted by fruiting trees.

You can expect some of these birds in your garden:

Tiptol (Bottergat)

•  Mousebirds

• Turacos 

• Parrots 

• Barbets 

• Bulbuls 

• Hornbills and Pigeons

Following is just a few trees that will attract Fruit Eating Birds to your garden.



To mention a few - 

all indigenous fig trees, 

The Tree Fuchsia (Halleria lucida), 

Transvaal Red Milkwood (Moepel, Mimusops Zeyheri), 

Sourplum (Harpephylum caffrum) and 

White Stinkwood

White Stinkwood (Celtis africana) 

all produce highly attractive fruits and berries in abundance. 

 Tomorrow we will discuss Water Birds, Nectar Feeders

Predatory Birds and Mixed Feeders.

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