Audubon Southwest and the Metropolis of Phoenix are bringing the neighborhood collectively round a shared imaginative and prescient: making Phoenix a spot the place birds can thrive.
The initiative Bird-Friendly PHX invitations residents to take easy actions at house and throughout the neighborhood to assist birds, whether or not they’re migrating by way of the town or name Phoenix house year-round, as a result of a wholesome metropolis for birds is a wholesome metropolis for folks.
The partnership was celebrated at a neighborhood occasion on the Nina Mason Pulliam Rio Salado Audubon Heart in South Phoenix on September 29, 2026, that includes the Audubon documentary Birds on the Move: Desert Rivers and remarks by Phoenix Mayor Kate Gallego, Metropolis of Phoenix Environmental Program Supervisor Tricia Balluff, and Audubon Southwest Senior Coverage Director Haley Paul, with Erika Flores, Audubon Communications and Advertising Director for the Southwest and Rockies, welcoming attendees.
Serving to Birds Alongside Their Journey
For migratory birds, cities like Phoenix can present essential locations to relaxation and refuel alongside their journeys. However navigating an city surroundings additionally presents challenges. Birds want wholesome locations the place they will discover meals and shelter, safely transfer by way of the panorama, and lift their younger. Synthetic gentle at evening can disorient migrating birds, drawing them off their migration paths and inflicting them to expend worthwhile vitality flying and calling in confusion. Exhaustion can then go away birds extra weak to different threats present in city environments.
Clear and reflective home windows may also pose challenges for birds, whereas the supply of native vegetation and wholesome habitat could make a significant distinction in offering the meals and shelter birds want.
Making a bird-friendly Phoenix is not solely about serving to birds passing by way of throughout migration. The identical actions can help the greater than 100 fowl species that decision Phoenix house all year long.
Small Actions Can Make a Massive Distinction
Hen-Pleasant PHX offers everybody a chance to assist birds. Take the Bird-Friendly PHX pledge and decide to easy actions at house, together with:
- Turning off pointless gentle.
- Closing curtains and blinds at evening.
- Putting in shielded outside lighting fixtures that direct gentle downward.
- Including decals or different remedies to clear and reflective home windows to assist make them extra seen to birds.
- Supervising pets whereas outside.
- Planting native vegetation that present meals and habitat.
- Minimizing using pesticides and herbicides.
Individually, these actions can assist make properties and neighborhoods safer for birds. Taken collectively throughout Phoenix, they signify one thing bigger: a neighborhood working collectively to create a metropolis the place birds and folks can thrive.
