Birds of a Feather ... ; Will Flock to Your Yard If You Follow These Steps.

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NEW MARKET, Va. - Steve Kress would like a few words with you if you're among the many property owners manicuring their yards to resemble putting greens on a golf course. The few words? "Stop doing it."

"The structure you provide is important to birds. Structure and layering. All kinds of layers. That means leaving some leaves around. Some brush. The tidy look is not a good thing for birds," said Kress, vice president for Bird Conservation with the National Audubon Society and author of the newly released "Audubon Society Guide to Attracting Birds: Creating Natural Habitats for Yards Large and Small."

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Birds of a Feather ... ; Will Flock to Your Yard If You Follow These Steps.

Kress, who also teaches field ornithology at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, takes designing wildlife-friendly habitat beyond the Big 3 of food, water an...

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