103 Thriving in the City - with Jacinta

Photo: Adam Purcell

Discover how to create bird-friendly gardens in urban areas.

This episode explores the challenges urban birds face, from habitat loss to Noisy Miners, and offers practical tips for supporting them in our own backyards.

Jacinta Humphrey is an Urban Ecologist and Postdoctoral Researcher with the ICON Science group at RMIT University. Her work explores Biodiversity Sensitive Urban Design and aims to find opportunities to create and enhance habitat for birds in residential neighbourhoods, urban parks, schoolyards and private gardens. She also monitors the Birrarung Trial Floating Wetlands, a series of artificial habitat islands installed in the Yarra River-Birrarung, on behalf of The University of Melbourne. When she’s not thinking about birds, Jacinta spends her time swimming, running, and playing with her two (indoor only) cats.

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Links

* Jacinta on LinkedIn - linkedin.com/in/jacinta-humphrey-urban-ecologist/
* Jacinta Instagram - @jacintahumphrey/
* Jacinta on Twitter/X - x.com/HumphreyJE_
* Jacinta’s Birds in the Burbs summary brochure - doi.org/10.26181/25485955
* Living with Wildlife by Tanya Loos - tanyaloos.com/living-with-wildlife/
* The Secret Lives of Our Urban Birds hosted by Ann Jones on ABC iView - iview.abc.net.au/show/secret-lives-of-our-urban-birds
* Noisy Miner recording by Marc Anderson licenced from wildambience.com