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The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Why Do We Want Birds in Our Garden

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Education, Home & Garden, How To, Leisure

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2024

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Birds are excellent pest controllers for gardens. Chickadees, for instance, feed their chicks caterpillars every 3 minutes. That’s hundreds of caterpillars per day, some of which may have been feeding on your favorite brassica plants. Larger birds of prey manage rodent populations as well. Each bird has its own role to play in your garden.
Learn More: 25 Top Plants to Attract Birds to Your Yard

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David Mann, PhD earned his doctorate from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution by studying domino damselfish sounds at a Pacific atoll, and he was a faculty member at the University of South Florida. More recently, he is the Founder of Loggerhead Instruments which developed Haikubox, a tool that measures bioacoustics – the sounds that animals make to communicate. This consumer product is designed to automatically identify birds using their sounds. These boxes collect millions of birdsong recordings stored in a massive community science database which will be used for scientific discovery.
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0:00.0

If you're ever spent a hot day on the garden and then gotten dehydrated at the end of the day,

0:04.3

congratulations, you're me.

0:05.8

I do that all of the time until the last couple of months or so when I started using Electrolytes,

0:10.6

which brings us to the sponsor of today's episode,

0:13.6

Element.

0:14.6

Element is a zero sugar electrolyte drink mix, perfect for gardeners and anyone who enjoys

0:19.0

the outdoors, and if you don't like mixing it in, they also have sparkling waters.

0:24.0

So I've been using the element for a couple months now.

0:25.8

My favorite flavor is their raspberry salt,

0:28.6

but they've got at least seven or eight delicious flavors.

0:31.8

And they provide a meaningful dose of electrolytes free of sugar

0:34.8

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0:40.0

Gardeners for sure, like I said I've been using them for a couple months now, and Navy SEALs,

0:45.1

and athletes, and anyone who wants to make their hydration a priority.

0:49.3

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0:55.2

That's D-R-I-N-K-L-N-T dot com forward slash epic. We are back with David Mann and we are talking about acoustic specifically now on birds and

1:18.8

pay we're going to be talking about why you even want birds at your garden in the first place.

1:23.4

Because I'll even get comments oftentimes on my videos

1:26.6

being like, how do I stop birds from damaging my plants?

1:29.3

And maybe we'll talk a little bit about that later on.

1:31.8

But first I want to sell the birds to you guys because they have tremendous value, not just value, like they're just great to have around in general in the ecosystem. They're part of the ecosystem and we should be trying to invite them to your yards, especially in like these urban areas where a lot of what might have been their old habitat is maybe now gone. So I don't know if you have any examples or thoughts on sharing

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