Housing Crisis For The Birds

08/04/2025

The housing crunch has spread to our avian friends:

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A recent survey of birds born in the early 90s shows that three out of four of them expect to never own the birdhouse they live in, and will have to rent from humans forever.

“When my parents were my age, they had a two-nestroom balsa wood house with a perch swing and a fully-detached birdbath,” says local house sparrow Katie. “Meanwhile, if I want to stay in the old bird feeder I share with three other pigeons, I have to get up twice as early to catch twice as many worms as my grandparents did.”

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To read more about this birdhouse crisis, click here for the Beaverton.