Full nest box specifications for cavity-nesting and open-front nesting birds across 91 countries.
Why this matters
North America has lost 3 billion breeding birds since 1970.
That's a 29% decline across nearly every habitat. Cavity-nesting species are hit
especially hard. The dead and dying trees they depend on are routinely removed from forests,
farms, parks, and yards.
Development, intensive agriculture, and forestry have erased millions of acres of native breeding habitat. Even where forest cover persists, mature trees with the cavities cavity-nesters depend on have been replaced by younger plantation stands.
Dead trees are removed
Standing dead trees (snags) host the natural cavities ~85 North American bird species need. They're cut for safety, fuel, and tidiness, leaving cavity nesters with nowhere to breed.
Native species are pushed out
Invasive House Sparrows and European Starlings aggressively occupy the few cavities that remain, displacing bluebirds, swallows, chickadees, and small woodpeckers.
Nest boxes work
The Eastern Bluebird went from regional collapse in the mid-1900s to several million breeding pairs today. A recovery directly attributed to coordinated nest-box networks run by the North American Bluebird Society and Cornell's NestWatch project.
From the field
A nest box is also a year-round shelter.
Decades of field research keep landing on the same finding: the right cavity is not just a spring breeding amenity. It's a survival asset all twelve months of the year.
Communal winter roosting
On freezing nights, cavity-nesters cluster for warmth. Pygmy Nuthatches in the western US form some of the largest known communal roosts of any North American songbird, with dozens of birds packed into a single cavity. Blue Tits and Great Tits across northern Europe roost in nest boxes through the coldest stretches of winter, communal roosting in tit-family species is extensively documented by the British Trust for Ornithology.
Sydeman et al., The Condor (1988); BTO winter roost surveys.
Storm and cold survival
Cavity interiors stay measurably warmer than ambient air on cold nights. Black-capped Chickadees survive overnight at a far lower energetic cost when roosting in a cavity than in foliage, a difference that becomes the difference between life and death below −20 °C. Resident wrens, screech-owls, and bluebirds are routinely observed entering boxes during heavy rain and high wind.
Brittingham & Temple, The Auk (1988); Cornell Lab of Ornithology, NestWatch.
Cavities are the bottleneck
In replicated population-ecology experiments, adding nest boxes to cavity-poor sites lifts breeding density three- to ten-fold. Cavity availability, not predation, not food, is the binding constraint on cavity-nester populations across both North American and European study systems.
Newton, Population Limitation in Birds (Academic Press, 1998); Lambrechts et al., Acta Ornithologica (2010).
What this means in practice
Leave the box up year-round. Pack cavity-nester boxes (chickadees, nuthatches, owls, woodpeckers) with 1–2″ of wood shavings, since many species expect to dig out a cavity floor before settling in. Clean once a year between broods, but resist the urge to "tidy" between seasons: a clean, dry, predator-protected box is exactly the structure these birds have lost in the wider landscape.
Tiny, energetic brown bird with a startlingly loud, bubbling song for its size. Fills any cavity it claims with sticks and aggressively defends its territory, even against birds twice its weight.
Slim, long-tailed western wren with a bold white eyebrow and a complex, musical song that males learn from their neighbors. Once common across the eastern US, now mostly a bird of the western half of the country.
Warm reddish-brown wren of the southeastern US with a striking white eyebrow and a ringing 'teakettle, teakettle' call. Pairs stay together year-round and sing duets in spring.
Diminutive black-and-white-headed songbird with a curious nature, a regular at feeders and a year-round 'chickadee-dee-dee' caller. The number of 'dee' notes scales with how alarmed the bird is.
Near-identical southern cousin of the Black-capped, distinguishable mostly by its faster song and slightly tidier black bib. Hybridizes with Black-capped along a thin contact zone in the Appalachians.
Soft-gray songbird with a jaunty crest and big black eyes, a fixture at suet feeders across the eastern US. Often hangs upside-down on twigs to investigate bark crevices for insects.
The 'upside-down bird', habitually walks headfirst down tree trunks looking for insects other birds miss. Honks like a tiny tin horn and stashes seeds in bark cracks for winter.
Smaller, bolder cousin of the White-breasted, with a rusty belly and a black eyeline. Coats its nest-hole entrance with sticky conifer resin, possibly to deter predators or competitors.
The smallest North American woodpecker, only sparrow-sized, in crisp black-and-white plumage with a red nape patch on males. Over half its diet is insects, and it's a year-round feeder regular.
Iridescent blue-green above and snow-white below, this aerial insectivore depends almost entirely on natural tree cavities for nesting. Often the first cavity nester back from migration in early spring.
Western counterpart to the Tree Swallow, with a metallic green back and violet rump that flash in the sun. White flanks wrap up onto the rump in distinctive saddlebag patches.
The poster species for nest-box conservation: a rust-and-blue thrush whose populations rebounded thanks to monitored nest-box programs. Hunts insects from a low perch by dropping to the ground.
Darker blue and reddier on the chest than its eastern cousin, with the rust extending onto the upper back. Common in oak woodlands and burned forests where dead snags create natural cavities.
Conifer-specialist chickadee of the western mountains, recognizable by the bold white eyebrow stripe. Smaller and more vocal than its eastern cousins, often heard before seen.
Vibrant chestnut-backed chickadee of damp Pacific coastal forests, with a rusty back and flanks set against the standard black cap. Often the most common bird in mature Douglas-fir stands.
Brown-capped chickadee of the high boreal forest, far less familiar to backyard birders than the black-capped variety. Survives some of the coldest winter nights of any songbird on the continent.
Tiny, pine-loving nuthatch of the American Southeast with a soft brown cap and a high squeaky 'rubber-duck' call. One of the few North American birds known to use a tool, wielding a bark flake to pry up other bark.
Tiny grey-and-buff nuthatch of western ponderosa pine forests, famous for cramming dozens of individuals into a single tree cavity on cold nights to share body heat.
Drab grey crested titmouse of California's oak woodlands, recognizable by its small pointed crest and clear two-note whistle. Pairs stay together year-round and defend territory aggressively for their size.
Brilliant golden-orange warbler of southern swamp forests, one of only two North American warblers that nest in cavities. The intense yellow head is unmistakable in a dim wooded wetland.
Tiny brown wren of dark conifer forests, with a stubby upright tail and an absurdly loud bubbling song for a bird that weighs less than a paper clip. The most reliable cue is the song coming from a tangled root mass near a stream.
The chestnut-crowned, white-collared cousin of the House Sparrow - neat, both-sexes-identical, more rural and arboreal than its city-dwelling relative. UK Red-listed and dramatically declined across western Europe; still common across Asia, where it fills the urban niche House Sparrow occupies in Europe.
28 mm hole, identical body to the Blue Tit / Pied Flycatcher small box. They prefer COLONIAL nesting - install boxes in groups of 3–6 spaced 5–10 m apart on the same row of trees or wall.
traditional farmland with hedgerowsvillage edges and orchardswood-pasture and copsesriverbank tree lines
Brilliant sky-blue throughout the male's plumage, with no rust at all, sometimes mistaken for a bit of summer sky against a wire. Hovers over open ground hunting grasshoppers and crickets.
Pale, drab-looking flycatcher of the arid Southwest with a soft yellow belly and a distinctive 'ka-brrick' call. Nests in cavities and often lines its nest with bits of shed snake skin.
Iridescent, dagger-billed mimic introduced to North America from Europe, now one of the most abundant birds on the continent. Forms massive synchronized aerial flocks, murmurations, at dusk.
Medium woodpecker named for the messy yellow wash on its belly and the neat horizontal rows of sap-wells it drills into trees. The only highly migratory woodpecker in eastern North America.
Stunning black-and-white songbird of the high Arctic that swirls in nomadic winter flocks across northern fields. Males arrive on breeding territory while snow is still on the ground, among the hardiest songbirds in the world.
Looks like an oversize Downy Woodpecker with a much heftier, chisel-like bill. Bores into solid wood after wood-boring beetle grubs and is often heard before it's seen.
Tiny, cat-faced owl no larger than a robin, with a piercing yellow stare. Migrates vast distances by night despite its short wings; named for its rhythmic 'saw-sharpening' call.
Common eastern woodpecker, despite the name almost entirely zebra-striped on the back with a bright red cap (the belly blush is faint). Calls loudly and frequently, a familiar voice of eastern hardwood forests.
Striking western woodpecker with iridescent green-black back, dusty pink belly, and silver collar. Hunts flying insects from open perches like a flycatcher, one of the most distinctive birds of the American West.
Mesquite-country woodpecker of South Texas and Mexico, the western counterpart to the Red-bellied. Males show a small golden patch above the bill and a separate red crown, a tidy three-tone head pattern.
Small, secretive boreal-forest owl with a square pale facial disc framed in black. Strictly nocturnal and unobtrusive, far more often heard than seen. Readily adopts large nest boxes in mature spruce stands.
One of the most familiar North American birds, a thrush with a brick-red breast that probes lawns for earthworms. Its run-and-tilt feeding posture is more about visual cues than hearing.
Plain dust-colored flycatcher that wags its tail constantly and habitually nests on house eaves, bridges, and barns. The first North American bird ever banded, by John James Audubon in 1804.
Worldwide swallow with a deeply forked tail and rich blue-and-orange plumage, almost always nesting under human-made structures now. Builds cup nests from mouthfuls of mud pellets and grass.
Pale, sandy-brown western flycatcher with a soft cinnamon belly, comfortable in arid country from deserts to the tundra edge. Often nests on rock ledges and old farm buildings.
The familiar mournful 'coo-OOoo-OOoo' of yards across the continent, plump, with a long tapered tail and soft brown plumage. One of the most-hunted game birds in North America and still abundant.
Square-tailed swallow with a buffy rump and chestnut throat, builds gourd-shaped mud nests in dense colonies under bridges and cliff overhangs. The famous 'swallows of Capistrano.'
Close cousin of the Cliff Swallow with a rusty throat instead of dark, originally nesting in limestone caves. Has steadily expanded its range north and now uses bridges and culverts alongside its ancestral caverns.
Slate-gray with a black cap and rufous undertail, named for its cat-like mewing call. A consummate mimic that strings together dozens of phrases in a long rambling improv song.
Small streaky finch where the male's head and breast wash with red, orange, or yellow depending on what he ate while molting. Originally a western bird, now coast-to-coast after a 1940s pet-trade release.
Mount on the side of a building under an overhang or on a porch beam. House Finches are unusually tolerant of human activity and will nest within a few feet of doors and frequently-used entrances.
North America's most familiar red bird, males blazing scarlet with a crest and black face mask. Both sexes sing, and pairs feed each other beak-to-beak during courtship.
Tiny olive-green Empidonax flycatcher of the wet Pacific Northwest forests, near-impossible to tell from its sister species by sight alone, voice is the only reliable clue.
Interior counterpart to the Pacific-slope, found from the Rockies south to Mexico. Recently split from the Pacific-slope and named for the cordillera (mountain range) where it breeds.
The largest North American swallow, with adult males in deep glossy purple-blue. In the East, almost the entire population now depends on human-supplied housing, gourds and apartment-style boxes.
Floor
6" × 6"
Height
6"
Mount
10–20 ft
Wall
0.75"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilation
Typically in apartment-style multi-unit housing. Single unit usable too.
Striking woodpecker with an entirely crimson head and bold black-and-white body. One of the few woodpeckers that catches insects on the wing and caches surplus food for later.
Floor
6" × 6"
Height
14"
Mount
10–20 ft
Wall
1.0"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilation
Mid-size woodpecker box. Fill with chips before mounting.
A ground-feeding woodpecker with a polka-dotted belly and a flash of yellow or salmon-pink under the wings depending on the population. Often seen hopping on lawns probing for ants.
Floor
7" × 7"
Height
16"
Mount
6–20 ft
Wall
1.0"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilation
One of the largest common birdhouse species. Deep box is important.
North America's smallest diving duck, the male a vivid black-and-white with a huge bonnet-like head patch. Nests exclusively in old woodpecker holes, almost always those made by Northern Flickers.
Floor
7" × 7"
Height
16"
Mount
5–15 ft
Wall
1.0"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
VentilationPredator guard
Duck-style deep box with round rather than oval hole.
A robin-sized falcon and the most colorful raptor in North America, with rust, slate-blue, and bold black markings. Hovers on rapid wingbeats while scanning for grasshoppers and voles.
Floor
9" × 9"
Height
12"
Mount
10–30 ft
Wall
1.0"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilation
Largest commonly 3D-printed birdhouse. Consider UV-resistant filament for high-pole mounting.
Compact tufted owl that comes in two color morphs, rufous and gray, sometimes within the same brood. Despite the name, its trembling whinny sounds more like a horse than a screech.
Floor
8" × 8"
Height
14"
Mount
10–30 ft
Wall
1.0"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilation
Same hole diameter as Kestrel but different interior. Swap entrance plates between designs.
Western counterpart to the Eastern, almost entirely gray-morph, with a distinctive 'bouncing-ball' song that accelerates toward the end. Found from deserts to suburban yards with mature trees.
Floor
8" × 8"
Height
14"
Mount
10–30 ft
Wall
1.0"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
Often called the most beautiful duck in North America. The drake's iridescent green-and-purple head and intricate facial pattern look painted on. Nests high in tree cavities; ducklings leap to the forest floor at one day old.
Floor
10" × 10"
Height
24"
Mount
4–20 ft
Wall
1.0"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
VentilationPredator guard
Oval entrance hole (3"x4"). Tallest common nest box. Internal ramp/ladder texture required for ducklings to exit.
Small fish-eating duck whose male sports a fan-shaped white crest he can raise or lower at will. A cavity nester that often shares wood-duck boxes and parasitically lays in others' nests.
Floor
10" × 10"
Height
24"
Mount
4–15 ft
Wall
1.0"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
VentilationPredator guard
Identical to Wood Duck design. Often co-occupies Wood Duck boxes.
Ghostly pale owl with a heart-shaped face and the most sensitive hearing of any tested animal, can catch prey in total darkness. Doesn't hoot; delivers a chilling, drawn-out screech.
Floor
10" × 18"
Height
16"
Mount
12–30 ft
Wall
1.0"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
The largest woodpecker in North America, crow-sized with a flaming red crest. The huge rectangular excavations it leaves in dead trees are diagnostic even when the bird isn't visible.
Floor
8" × 8"
Height
22"
Mount
15–30 ft
Wall
0.75"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilation
Outside our standard line. Custom 8×8×22 box with 4" hole, mounted 15+ ft high.
Long-tailed boreal owl that hunts in broad daylight, perching high and conspicuously on the tops of spruce snags. Looks and flies more like an accipiter than a typical owl. The closest thing North America has to a sun-loving owl.
Floor
7" × 7"
Height
14"
Mount
12–30 ft
Wall
0.75"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilation
Custom 7×7×14 cavity with 4" hole, mounted at boreal-forest height.
Tiny mountain owl no bigger than a sparrow, but a surprisingly aggressive daytime predator. The two black 'false-eye' spots on the back of its head fool prey into thinking it's still watching.
Floor
4" × 4"
Height
10"
Mount
10–25 ft
Wall
0.75"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilation
Custom 4×4×10 cavity with 2" hole (smaller than any standard panel).
montane conifer forestsoak-pine woodlandsmature western forests
Striking black-and-white diving duck of boreal lakes with a piercing golden eye and a distinctive whistling wing-sound in flight. One of the largest North American cavity-nesting birds.
Floor
8" × 8"
Height
24"
Mount
10–20 ft
Wall
0.75"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilation
Custom 8×8×24 duck box with 4½×3½" oval hole, packed with shavings.
Mountain cousin of the Common Goldeneye, with a purplish-glossed head and a distinctive white crescent (not a round dot) on the face. Largely a Pacific Northwest and Mountain-West specialist.
Floor
8" × 8"
Height
24"
Mount
10–20 ft
Wall
0.75"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilation
Same 8×8×24 oversized duck-box build as Common Goldeneye.
alkaline lakessubalpine pondsmountain river systems
Long-legged tropical duck of the Gulf Coast and Latin America, with a coral-pink bill and a loud whistling call. The species has expanded its US range dramatically over the past 30 years.
Floor
8" × 8"
Height
22"
Mount
6–20 ft
Wall
0.75"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilation
Custom 8×8×22 box with 4×3" oval hole, mounted near water.
The massive 'tiger of the woods'. A heavily-set owl with prominent ear tufts and yellow eyes. Apex nocturnal predator across nearly the entire Western Hemisphere; rarely uses enclosed boxes but readily adopts large platforms.
Floor
13" × 13"
Height
13"
Mount
20–40 ft
Wall
0.75"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilation
Custom open platform 13×13" with low walls and a roof, mounted 20+ ft high.
forests of any kinddesertswooded suburbsagricultural lands
Stocky brown owl of mature eastern forests with horizontal barring across the chest and a famous eight-syllable hoot, 'Who cooks for you, who cooks for you-all?' Expanding aggressively into the Pacific Northwest where it now threatens the endangered Spotted Owl.
Floor
13" × 13"
Height
20"
Mount
15–30 ft
Wall
0.75"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilation
Custom 13×13×20 cavity with 7" hole, mounted 15+ ft in mature trees.
mature deciduous and mixed forestswooded swampsold-growth
The largest North American merganser, a long, low-slung duck with a sleek crested head and a hooked saw-tooth bill. Specialist of clear cold rivers and forested lakes.
Floor
10" × 10"
Height
24"
Mount
10–25 ft
Wall
0.75"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilation
Custom 10×10×24 oversized box with 5×4" oval hole.
The most common and widespread hawk in North America, large, broad-winged, with a rust-red tail in adults. Builds enormous stick nests on platforms or in tall trees, often visible from highways.
Floor
24" × 24"
Height
6"
Mount
20–60 ft
Wall
0.75"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilation
Custom raised platform 24×24" with 4" rim, mounted 20+ ft on a pole.
open country with scattered treesagricultural landsurban edges
The fastest animal on Earth, diving stoops have been clocked at over 240 mph. Originally a cliff-nester, it now thrives on skyscrapers, bridges, and tall human structures across the world.
Floor
24" × 30"
Height
8"
Mount
50–1000 ft
Wall
0.75"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilation
Custom 24×30 ledge box with 8" walls, gravel base, mounted on a tall structure.
Specialist fish-eagle of lakes, coasts, and rivers worldwide. Long-winged and brown-and-white, it hunts by diving feet-first into water from heights of 30+ ft, then carries fish away aerodynamically aligned head-first.
Floor
48" × 48"
Height
6"
Mount
20–60 ft
Wall
0.75"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilation
Custom 48×48 platform on a 20+ ft pole, ideally over or beside water.
Tiny, energetic brown bird with a startlingly loud, bubbling song for its size. Fills any cavity it claims with sticks and aggressively defends its territory, even against birds twice its weight.
Diminutive black-and-white-headed songbird with a curious nature, a regular at feeders and a year-round 'chickadee-dee-dee' caller. The number of 'dee' notes scales with how alarmed the bird is.
The 'upside-down bird', habitually walks headfirst down tree trunks looking for insects other birds miss. Honks like a tiny tin horn and stashes seeds in bark cracks for winter.
Smaller, bolder cousin of the White-breasted, with a rusty belly and a black eyeline. Coats its nest-hole entrance with sticky conifer resin, possibly to deter predators or competitors.
The smallest North American woodpecker, only sparrow-sized, in crisp black-and-white plumage with a red nape patch on males. Over half its diet is insects, and it's a year-round feeder regular.
Iridescent blue-green above and snow-white below, this aerial insectivore depends almost entirely on natural tree cavities for nesting. Often the first cavity nester back from migration in early spring.
Western counterpart to the Tree Swallow, with a metallic green back and violet rump that flash in the sun. White flanks wrap up onto the rump in distinctive saddlebag patches.
The poster species for nest-box conservation: a rust-and-blue thrush whose populations rebounded thanks to monitored nest-box programs. Hunts insects from a low perch by dropping to the ground.
Conifer-specialist chickadee of the western mountains, recognizable by the bold white eyebrow stripe. Smaller and more vocal than its eastern cousins, often heard before seen.
Vibrant chestnut-backed chickadee of damp Pacific coastal forests, with a rusty back and flanks set against the standard black cap. Often the most common bird in mature Douglas-fir stands.
Brown-capped chickadee of the high boreal forest, far less familiar to backyard birders than the black-capped variety. Survives some of the coldest winter nights of any songbird on the continent.
Tiny grey-and-buff nuthatch of western ponderosa pine forests, famous for cramming dozens of individuals into a single tree cavity on cold nights to share body heat.
Brilliant golden-orange warbler of southern swamp forests, one of only two North American warblers that nest in cavities. The intense yellow head is unmistakable in a dim wooded wetland.
Tiny brown wren of dark conifer forests, with a stubby upright tail and an absurdly loud bubbling song for a bird that weighs less than a paper clip. The most reliable cue is the song coming from a tangled root mass near a stream.
Brilliant sky-blue throughout the male's plumage, with no rust at all, sometimes mistaken for a bit of summer sky against a wire. Hovers over open ground hunting grasshoppers and crickets.
Iridescent, dagger-billed mimic introduced to North America from Europe, now one of the most abundant birds on the continent. Forms massive synchronized aerial flocks, murmurations, at dusk.
Medium woodpecker named for the messy yellow wash on its belly and the neat horizontal rows of sap-wells it drills into trees. The only highly migratory woodpecker in eastern North America.
Stunning black-and-white songbird of the high Arctic that swirls in nomadic winter flocks across northern fields. Males arrive on breeding territory while snow is still on the ground, among the hardiest songbirds in the world.
Looks like an oversize Downy Woodpecker with a much heftier, chisel-like bill. Bores into solid wood after wood-boring beetle grubs and is often heard before it's seen.
Tiny, cat-faced owl no larger than a robin, with a piercing yellow stare. Migrates vast distances by night despite its short wings; named for its rhythmic 'saw-sharpening' call.
Common eastern woodpecker, despite the name almost entirely zebra-striped on the back with a bright red cap (the belly blush is faint). Calls loudly and frequently, a familiar voice of eastern hardwood forests.
Striking western woodpecker with iridescent green-black back, dusty pink belly, and silver collar. Hunts flying insects from open perches like a flycatcher, one of the most distinctive birds of the American West.
Small, secretive boreal-forest owl with a square pale facial disc framed in black. Strictly nocturnal and unobtrusive, far more often heard than seen. Readily adopts large nest boxes in mature spruce stands.
One of the most familiar North American birds, a thrush with a brick-red breast that probes lawns for earthworms. Its run-and-tilt feeding posture is more about visual cues than hearing.
Plain dust-colored flycatcher that wags its tail constantly and habitually nests on house eaves, bridges, and barns. The first North American bird ever banded, by John James Audubon in 1804.
Worldwide swallow with a deeply forked tail and rich blue-and-orange plumage, almost always nesting under human-made structures now. Builds cup nests from mouthfuls of mud pellets and grass.
Pale, sandy-brown western flycatcher with a soft cinnamon belly, comfortable in arid country from deserts to the tundra edge. Often nests on rock ledges and old farm buildings.
The familiar mournful 'coo-OOoo-OOoo' of yards across the continent, plump, with a long tapered tail and soft brown plumage. One of the most-hunted game birds in North America and still abundant.
Square-tailed swallow with a buffy rump and chestnut throat, builds gourd-shaped mud nests in dense colonies under bridges and cliff overhangs. The famous 'swallows of Capistrano.'
Slate-gray with a black cap and rufous undertail, named for its cat-like mewing call. A consummate mimic that strings together dozens of phrases in a long rambling improv song.
Small streaky finch where the male's head and breast wash with red, orange, or yellow depending on what he ate while molting. Originally a western bird, now coast-to-coast after a 1940s pet-trade release.
Mount on the side of a building under an overhang or on a porch beam. House Finches are unusually tolerant of human activity and will nest within a few feet of doors and frequently-used entrances.
North America's most familiar red bird, males blazing scarlet with a crest and black face mask. Both sexes sing, and pairs feed each other beak-to-beak during courtship.
Tiny olive-green Empidonax flycatcher of the wet Pacific Northwest forests, near-impossible to tell from its sister species by sight alone, voice is the only reliable clue.
Interior counterpart to the Pacific-slope, found from the Rockies south to Mexico. Recently split from the Pacific-slope and named for the cordillera (mountain range) where it breeds.
The largest North American swallow, with adult males in deep glossy purple-blue. In the East, almost the entire population now depends on human-supplied housing, gourds and apartment-style boxes.
Floor
6" × 6"
Height
6"
Mount
10–20 ft
Wall
0.75"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilation
Typically in apartment-style multi-unit housing. Single unit usable too.
Striking woodpecker with an entirely crimson head and bold black-and-white body. One of the few woodpeckers that catches insects on the wing and caches surplus food for later.
Floor
6" × 6"
Height
14"
Mount
10–20 ft
Wall
1.0"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilation
Mid-size woodpecker box. Fill with chips before mounting.
A ground-feeding woodpecker with a polka-dotted belly and a flash of yellow or salmon-pink under the wings depending on the population. Often seen hopping on lawns probing for ants.
Floor
7" × 7"
Height
16"
Mount
6–20 ft
Wall
1.0"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilation
One of the largest common birdhouse species. Deep box is important.
North America's smallest diving duck, the male a vivid black-and-white with a huge bonnet-like head patch. Nests exclusively in old woodpecker holes, almost always those made by Northern Flickers.
Floor
7" × 7"
Height
16"
Mount
5–15 ft
Wall
1.0"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
VentilationPredator guard
Duck-style deep box with round rather than oval hole.
A robin-sized falcon and the most colorful raptor in North America, with rust, slate-blue, and bold black markings. Hovers on rapid wingbeats while scanning for grasshoppers and voles.
Floor
9" × 9"
Height
12"
Mount
10–30 ft
Wall
1.0"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilation
Largest commonly 3D-printed birdhouse. Consider UV-resistant filament for high-pole mounting.
Compact tufted owl that comes in two color morphs, rufous and gray, sometimes within the same brood. Despite the name, its trembling whinny sounds more like a horse than a screech.
Floor
8" × 8"
Height
14"
Mount
10–30 ft
Wall
1.0"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilation
Same hole diameter as Kestrel but different interior. Swap entrance plates between designs.
Western counterpart to the Eastern, almost entirely gray-morph, with a distinctive 'bouncing-ball' song that accelerates toward the end. Found from deserts to suburban yards with mature trees.
Floor
8" × 8"
Height
14"
Mount
10–30 ft
Wall
1.0"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
Often called the most beautiful duck in North America. The drake's iridescent green-and-purple head and intricate facial pattern look painted on. Nests high in tree cavities; ducklings leap to the forest floor at one day old.
Floor
10" × 10"
Height
24"
Mount
4–20 ft
Wall
1.0"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
VentilationPredator guard
Oval entrance hole (3"x4"). Tallest common nest box. Internal ramp/ladder texture required for ducklings to exit.
Small fish-eating duck whose male sports a fan-shaped white crest he can raise or lower at will. A cavity nester that often shares wood-duck boxes and parasitically lays in others' nests.
Floor
10" × 10"
Height
24"
Mount
4–15 ft
Wall
1.0"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
VentilationPredator guard
Identical to Wood Duck design. Often co-occupies Wood Duck boxes.
Ghostly pale owl with a heart-shaped face and the most sensitive hearing of any tested animal, can catch prey in total darkness. Doesn't hoot; delivers a chilling, drawn-out screech.
Floor
10" × 18"
Height
16"
Mount
12–30 ft
Wall
1.0"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
The largest woodpecker in North America, crow-sized with a flaming red crest. The huge rectangular excavations it leaves in dead trees are diagnostic even when the bird isn't visible.
Floor
8" × 8"
Height
22"
Mount
15–30 ft
Wall
0.75"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilation
Outside our standard line. Custom 8×8×22 box with 4" hole, mounted 15+ ft high.
Long-tailed boreal owl that hunts in broad daylight, perching high and conspicuously on the tops of spruce snags. Looks and flies more like an accipiter than a typical owl. The closest thing North America has to a sun-loving owl.
Floor
7" × 7"
Height
14"
Mount
12–30 ft
Wall
0.75"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilation
Custom 7×7×14 cavity with 4" hole, mounted at boreal-forest height.
Tiny mountain owl no bigger than a sparrow, but a surprisingly aggressive daytime predator. The two black 'false-eye' spots on the back of its head fool prey into thinking it's still watching.
Floor
4" × 4"
Height
10"
Mount
10–25 ft
Wall
0.75"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilation
Custom 4×4×10 cavity with 2" hole (smaller than any standard panel).
montane conifer forestsoak-pine woodlandsmature western forests
Striking black-and-white diving duck of boreal lakes with a piercing golden eye and a distinctive whistling wing-sound in flight. One of the largest North American cavity-nesting birds.
Floor
8" × 8"
Height
24"
Mount
10–20 ft
Wall
0.75"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilation
Custom 8×8×24 duck box with 4½×3½" oval hole, packed with shavings.
Mountain cousin of the Common Goldeneye, with a purplish-glossed head and a distinctive white crescent (not a round dot) on the face. Largely a Pacific Northwest and Mountain-West specialist.
Floor
8" × 8"
Height
24"
Mount
10–20 ft
Wall
0.75"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilation
Same 8×8×24 oversized duck-box build as Common Goldeneye.
alkaline lakessubalpine pondsmountain river systems
The massive 'tiger of the woods'. A heavily-set owl with prominent ear tufts and yellow eyes. Apex nocturnal predator across nearly the entire Western Hemisphere; rarely uses enclosed boxes but readily adopts large platforms.
Floor
13" × 13"
Height
13"
Mount
20–40 ft
Wall
0.75"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilation
Custom open platform 13×13" with low walls and a roof, mounted 20+ ft high.
forests of any kinddesertswooded suburbsagricultural lands
Stocky brown owl of mature eastern forests with horizontal barring across the chest and a famous eight-syllable hoot, 'Who cooks for you, who cooks for you-all?' Expanding aggressively into the Pacific Northwest where it now threatens the endangered Spotted Owl.
Floor
13" × 13"
Height
20"
Mount
15–30 ft
Wall
0.75"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilation
Custom 13×13×20 cavity with 7" hole, mounted 15+ ft in mature trees.
mature deciduous and mixed forestswooded swampsold-growth
The largest North American merganser, a long, low-slung duck with a sleek crested head and a hooked saw-tooth bill. Specialist of clear cold rivers and forested lakes.
Floor
10" × 10"
Height
24"
Mount
10–25 ft
Wall
0.75"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilation
Custom 10×10×24 oversized box with 5×4" oval hole.
The most common and widespread hawk in North America, large, broad-winged, with a rust-red tail in adults. Builds enormous stick nests on platforms or in tall trees, often visible from highways.
Floor
24" × 24"
Height
6"
Mount
20–60 ft
Wall
0.75"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilation
Custom raised platform 24×24" with 4" rim, mounted 20+ ft on a pole.
open country with scattered treesagricultural landsurban edges
The fastest animal on Earth, diving stoops have been clocked at over 240 mph. Originally a cliff-nester, it now thrives on skyscrapers, bridges, and tall human structures across the world.
Floor
24" × 30"
Height
8"
Mount
50–1000 ft
Wall
0.75"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilation
Custom 24×30 ledge box with 8" walls, gravel base, mounted on a tall structure.
Specialist fish-eagle of lakes, coasts, and rivers worldwide. Long-winged and brown-and-white, it hunts by diving feet-first into water from heights of 30+ ft, then carries fish away aerodynamically aligned head-first.
Floor
48" × 48"
Height
6"
Mount
20–60 ft
Wall
0.75"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilation
Custom 48×48 platform on a 20+ ft pole, ideally over or beside water.
Tiny, energetic brown bird with a startlingly loud, bubbling song for its size. Fills any cavity it claims with sticks and aggressively defends its territory, even against birds twice its weight.
Slim, long-tailed western wren with a bold white eyebrow and a complex, musical song that males learn from their neighbors. Once common across the eastern US, now mostly a bird of the western half of the country.
Warm reddish-brown wren of the southeastern US with a striking white eyebrow and a ringing 'teakettle, teakettle' call. Pairs stay together year-round and sing duets in spring.
Soft-gray songbird with a jaunty crest and big black eyes, a fixture at suet feeders across the eastern US. Often hangs upside-down on twigs to investigate bark crevices for insects.
The 'upside-down bird', habitually walks headfirst down tree trunks looking for insects other birds miss. Honks like a tiny tin horn and stashes seeds in bark cracks for winter.
Iridescent blue-green above and snow-white below, this aerial insectivore depends almost entirely on natural tree cavities for nesting. Often the first cavity nester back from migration in early spring.
Western counterpart to the Tree Swallow, with a metallic green back and violet rump that flash in the sun. White flanks wrap up onto the rump in distinctive saddlebag patches.
The poster species for nest-box conservation: a rust-and-blue thrush whose populations rebounded thanks to monitored nest-box programs. Hunts insects from a low perch by dropping to the ground.
Darker blue and reddier on the chest than its eastern cousin, with the rust extending onto the upper back. Common in oak woodlands and burned forests where dead snags create natural cavities.
Conifer-specialist chickadee of the western mountains, recognizable by the bold white eyebrow stripe. Smaller and more vocal than its eastern cousins, often heard before seen.
Tiny grey-and-buff nuthatch of western ponderosa pine forests, famous for cramming dozens of individuals into a single tree cavity on cold nights to share body heat.
Drab grey crested titmouse of California's oak woodlands, recognizable by its small pointed crest and clear two-note whistle. Pairs stay together year-round and defend territory aggressively for their size.
Brilliant golden-orange warbler of southern swamp forests, one of only two North American warblers that nest in cavities. The intense yellow head is unmistakable in a dim wooded wetland.
Brilliant sky-blue throughout the male's plumage, with no rust at all, sometimes mistaken for a bit of summer sky against a wire. Hovers over open ground hunting grasshoppers and crickets.
Pale, drab-looking flycatcher of the arid Southwest with a soft yellow belly and a distinctive 'ka-brrick' call. Nests in cavities and often lines its nest with bits of shed snake skin.
Medium woodpecker named for the messy yellow wash on its belly and the neat horizontal rows of sap-wells it drills into trees. The only highly migratory woodpecker in eastern North America.
Looks like an oversize Downy Woodpecker with a much heftier, chisel-like bill. Bores into solid wood after wood-boring beetle grubs and is often heard before it's seen.
Tiny, cat-faced owl no larger than a robin, with a piercing yellow stare. Migrates vast distances by night despite its short wings; named for its rhythmic 'saw-sharpening' call.
Common eastern woodpecker, despite the name almost entirely zebra-striped on the back with a bright red cap (the belly blush is faint). Calls loudly and frequently, a familiar voice of eastern hardwood forests.
Striking western woodpecker with iridescent green-black back, dusty pink belly, and silver collar. Hunts flying insects from open perches like a flycatcher, one of the most distinctive birds of the American West.
Mesquite-country woodpecker of South Texas and Mexico, the western counterpart to the Red-bellied. Males show a small golden patch above the bill and a separate red crown, a tidy three-tone head pattern.
One of the most familiar North American birds, a thrush with a brick-red breast that probes lawns for earthworms. Its run-and-tilt feeding posture is more about visual cues than hearing.
Plain dust-colored flycatcher that wags its tail constantly and habitually nests on house eaves, bridges, and barns. The first North American bird ever banded, by John James Audubon in 1804.
Worldwide swallow with a deeply forked tail and rich blue-and-orange plumage, almost always nesting under human-made structures now. Builds cup nests from mouthfuls of mud pellets and grass.
Pale, sandy-brown western flycatcher with a soft cinnamon belly, comfortable in arid country from deserts to the tundra edge. Often nests on rock ledges and old farm buildings.
The familiar mournful 'coo-OOoo-OOoo' of yards across the continent, plump, with a long tapered tail and soft brown plumage. One of the most-hunted game birds in North America and still abundant.
Square-tailed swallow with a buffy rump and chestnut throat, builds gourd-shaped mud nests in dense colonies under bridges and cliff overhangs. The famous 'swallows of Capistrano.'
Close cousin of the Cliff Swallow with a rusty throat instead of dark, originally nesting in limestone caves. Has steadily expanded its range north and now uses bridges and culverts alongside its ancestral caverns.
Slate-gray with a black cap and rufous undertail, named for its cat-like mewing call. A consummate mimic that strings together dozens of phrases in a long rambling improv song.
Small streaky finch where the male's head and breast wash with red, orange, or yellow depending on what he ate while molting. Originally a western bird, now coast-to-coast after a 1940s pet-trade release.
Mount on the side of a building under an overhang or on a porch beam. House Finches are unusually tolerant of human activity and will nest within a few feet of doors and frequently-used entrances.
North America's most familiar red bird, males blazing scarlet with a crest and black face mask. Both sexes sing, and pairs feed each other beak-to-beak during courtship.
Tiny olive-green Empidonax flycatcher of the wet Pacific Northwest forests, near-impossible to tell from its sister species by sight alone, voice is the only reliable clue.
Interior counterpart to the Pacific-slope, found from the Rockies south to Mexico. Recently split from the Pacific-slope and named for the cordillera (mountain range) where it breeds.
The largest North American swallow, with adult males in deep glossy purple-blue. In the East, almost the entire population now depends on human-supplied housing, gourds and apartment-style boxes.
Floor
6" × 6"
Height
6"
Mount
10–20 ft
Wall
0.75"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilation
Typically in apartment-style multi-unit housing. Single unit usable too.
A ground-feeding woodpecker with a polka-dotted belly and a flash of yellow or salmon-pink under the wings depending on the population. Often seen hopping on lawns probing for ants.
Floor
7" × 7"
Height
16"
Mount
6–20 ft
Wall
1.0"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilation
One of the largest common birdhouse species. Deep box is important.
A robin-sized falcon and the most colorful raptor in North America, with rust, slate-blue, and bold black markings. Hovers on rapid wingbeats while scanning for grasshoppers and voles.
Floor
9" × 9"
Height
12"
Mount
10–30 ft
Wall
1.0"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilation
Largest commonly 3D-printed birdhouse. Consider UV-resistant filament for high-pole mounting.
Compact tufted owl that comes in two color morphs, rufous and gray, sometimes within the same brood. Despite the name, its trembling whinny sounds more like a horse than a screech.
Floor
8" × 8"
Height
14"
Mount
10–30 ft
Wall
1.0"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilation
Same hole diameter as Kestrel but different interior. Swap entrance plates between designs.
Western counterpart to the Eastern, almost entirely gray-morph, with a distinctive 'bouncing-ball' song that accelerates toward the end. Found from deserts to suburban yards with mature trees.
Floor
8" × 8"
Height
14"
Mount
10–30 ft
Wall
1.0"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
Ghostly pale owl with a heart-shaped face and the most sensitive hearing of any tested animal, can catch prey in total darkness. Doesn't hoot; delivers a chilling, drawn-out screech.
Floor
10" × 18"
Height
16"
Mount
12–30 ft
Wall
1.0"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
Tiny mountain owl no bigger than a sparrow, but a surprisingly aggressive daytime predator. The two black 'false-eye' spots on the back of its head fool prey into thinking it's still watching.
Floor
4" × 4"
Height
10"
Mount
10–25 ft
Wall
0.75"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilation
Custom 4×4×10 cavity with 2" hole (smaller than any standard panel).
montane conifer forestsoak-pine woodlandsmature western forests
Long-legged tropical duck of the Gulf Coast and Latin America, with a coral-pink bill and a loud whistling call. The species has expanded its US range dramatically over the past 30 years.
Floor
8" × 8"
Height
22"
Mount
6–20 ft
Wall
0.75"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilation
Custom 8×8×22 box with 4×3" oval hole, mounted near water.
The massive 'tiger of the woods'. A heavily-set owl with prominent ear tufts and yellow eyes. Apex nocturnal predator across nearly the entire Western Hemisphere; rarely uses enclosed boxes but readily adopts large platforms.
Floor
13" × 13"
Height
13"
Mount
20–40 ft
Wall
0.75"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilation
Custom open platform 13×13" with low walls and a roof, mounted 20+ ft high.
forests of any kinddesertswooded suburbsagricultural lands
Stocky brown owl of mature eastern forests with horizontal barring across the chest and a famous eight-syllable hoot, 'Who cooks for you, who cooks for you-all?' Expanding aggressively into the Pacific Northwest where it now threatens the endangered Spotted Owl.
Floor
13" × 13"
Height
20"
Mount
15–30 ft
Wall
0.75"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilation
Custom 13×13×20 cavity with 7" hole, mounted 15+ ft in mature trees.
mature deciduous and mixed forestswooded swampsold-growth
The largest North American merganser, a long, low-slung duck with a sleek crested head and a hooked saw-tooth bill. Specialist of clear cold rivers and forested lakes.
Floor
10" × 10"
Height
24"
Mount
10–25 ft
Wall
0.75"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilation
Custom 10×10×24 oversized box with 5×4" oval hole.
The most common and widespread hawk in North America, large, broad-winged, with a rust-red tail in adults. Builds enormous stick nests on platforms or in tall trees, often visible from highways.
Floor
24" × 24"
Height
6"
Mount
20–60 ft
Wall
0.75"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilation
Custom raised platform 24×24" with 4" rim, mounted 20+ ft on a pole.
open country with scattered treesagricultural landsurban edges
The fastest animal on Earth, diving stoops have been clocked at over 240 mph. Originally a cliff-nester, it now thrives on skyscrapers, bridges, and tall human structures across the world.
Floor
24" × 30"
Height
8"
Mount
50–1000 ft
Wall
0.75"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilation
Custom 24×30 ledge box with 8" walls, gravel base, mounted on a tall structure.
Specialist fish-eagle of lakes, coasts, and rivers worldwide. Long-winged and brown-and-white, it hunts by diving feet-first into water from heights of 30+ ft, then carries fish away aerodynamically aligned head-first.
Floor
48" × 48"
Height
6"
Mount
20–60 ft
Wall
0.75"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilation
Custom 48×48 platform on a 20+ ft pole, ideally over or beside water.
Iridescent blue-green above and snow-white below, this aerial insectivore depends almost entirely on natural tree cavities for nesting. Often the first cavity nester back from migration in early spring.
Brilliant golden-orange warbler of southern swamp forests, one of only two North American warblers that nest in cavities. The intense yellow head is unmistakable in a dim wooded wetland.
Medium woodpecker named for the messy yellow wash on its belly and the neat horizontal rows of sap-wells it drills into trees. The only highly migratory woodpecker in eastern North America.
Mesquite-country woodpecker of South Texas and Mexico, the western counterpart to the Red-bellied. Males show a small golden patch above the bill and a separate red crown, a tidy three-tone head pattern.
Square-tailed swallow with a buffy rump and chestnut throat, builds gourd-shaped mud nests in dense colonies under bridges and cliff overhangs. The famous 'swallows of Capistrano.'
Close cousin of the Cliff Swallow with a rusty throat instead of dark, originally nesting in limestone caves. Has steadily expanded its range north and now uses bridges and culverts alongside its ancestral caverns.
Slate-gray with a black cap and rufous undertail, named for its cat-like mewing call. A consummate mimic that strings together dozens of phrases in a long rambling improv song.
The largest North American swallow, with adult males in deep glossy purple-blue. In the East, almost the entire population now depends on human-supplied housing, gourds and apartment-style boxes.
Floor
6" × 6"
Height
6"
Mount
10–20 ft
Wall
0.75"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilation
Typically in apartment-style multi-unit housing. Single unit usable too.
A robin-sized falcon and the most colorful raptor in North America, with rust, slate-blue, and bold black markings. Hovers on rapid wingbeats while scanning for grasshoppers and voles.
Floor
9" × 9"
Height
12"
Mount
10–30 ft
Wall
1.0"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilation
Largest commonly 3D-printed birdhouse. Consider UV-resistant filament for high-pole mounting.
Long-legged tropical duck of the Gulf Coast and Latin America, with a coral-pink bill and a loud whistling call. The species has expanded its US range dramatically over the past 30 years.
Floor
8" × 8"
Height
22"
Mount
6–20 ft
Wall
0.75"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilation
Custom 8×8×22 box with 4×3" oval hole, mounted near water.
The massive 'tiger of the woods'. A heavily-set owl with prominent ear tufts and yellow eyes. Apex nocturnal predator across nearly the entire Western Hemisphere; rarely uses enclosed boxes but readily adopts large platforms.
Floor
13" × 13"
Height
13"
Mount
20–40 ft
Wall
0.75"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilation
Custom open platform 13×13" with low walls and a roof, mounted 20+ ft high.
forests of any kinddesertswooded suburbsagricultural lands
The most common and widespread hawk in North America, large, broad-winged, with a rust-red tail in adults. Builds enormous stick nests on platforms or in tall trees, often visible from highways.
Floor
24" × 24"
Height
6"
Mount
20–60 ft
Wall
0.75"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilation
Custom raised platform 24×24" with 4" rim, mounted 20+ ft on a pole.
open country with scattered treesagricultural landsurban edges
The fastest animal on Earth, diving stoops have been clocked at over 240 mph. Originally a cliff-nester, it now thrives on skyscrapers, bridges, and tall human structures across the world.
Floor
24" × 30"
Height
8"
Mount
50–1000 ft
Wall
0.75"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilation
Custom 24×30 ledge box with 8" walls, gravel base, mounted on a tall structure.
Specialist fish-eagle of lakes, coasts, and rivers worldwide. Long-winged and brown-and-white, it hunts by diving feet-first into water from heights of 30+ ft, then carries fish away aerodynamically aligned head-first.
Floor
48" × 48"
Height
6"
Mount
20–60 ft
Wall
0.75"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilation
Custom 48×48 platform on a 20+ ft pole, ideally over or beside water.
Tiny, energetic brown bird with a startlingly loud, bubbling song for its size. Fills any cavity it claims with sticks and aggressively defends its territory, even against birds twice its weight.
Warm reddish-brown wren of the southeastern US with a striking white eyebrow and a ringing 'teakettle, teakettle' call. Pairs stay together year-round and sing duets in spring.
Iridescent blue-green above and snow-white below, this aerial insectivore depends almost entirely on natural tree cavities for nesting. Often the first cavity nester back from migration in early spring.
Western counterpart to the Tree Swallow, with a metallic green back and violet rump that flash in the sun. White flanks wrap up onto the rump in distinctive saddlebag patches.
The poster species for nest-box conservation: a rust-and-blue thrush whose populations rebounded thanks to monitored nest-box programs. Hunts insects from a low perch by dropping to the ground.
Brilliant golden-orange warbler of southern swamp forests, one of only two North American warblers that nest in cavities. The intense yellow head is unmistakable in a dim wooded wetland.
Pale, drab-looking flycatcher of the arid Southwest with a soft yellow belly and a distinctive 'ka-brrick' call. Nests in cavities and often lines its nest with bits of shed snake skin.
Medium woodpecker named for the messy yellow wash on its belly and the neat horizontal rows of sap-wells it drills into trees. The only highly migratory woodpecker in eastern North America.
Looks like an oversize Downy Woodpecker with a much heftier, chisel-like bill. Bores into solid wood after wood-boring beetle grubs and is often heard before it's seen.
Mesquite-country woodpecker of South Texas and Mexico, the western counterpart to the Red-bellied. Males show a small golden patch above the bill and a separate red crown, a tidy three-tone head pattern.
The familiar mournful 'coo-OOoo-OOoo' of yards across the continent, plump, with a long tapered tail and soft brown plumage. One of the most-hunted game birds in North America and still abundant.
Square-tailed swallow with a buffy rump and chestnut throat, builds gourd-shaped mud nests in dense colonies under bridges and cliff overhangs. The famous 'swallows of Capistrano.'
Close cousin of the Cliff Swallow with a rusty throat instead of dark, originally nesting in limestone caves. Has steadily expanded its range north and now uses bridges and culverts alongside its ancestral caverns.
Slate-gray with a black cap and rufous undertail, named for its cat-like mewing call. A consummate mimic that strings together dozens of phrases in a long rambling improv song.
The largest North American swallow, with adult males in deep glossy purple-blue. In the East, almost the entire population now depends on human-supplied housing, gourds and apartment-style boxes.
Floor
6" × 6"
Height
6"
Mount
10–20 ft
Wall
0.75"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilation
Typically in apartment-style multi-unit housing. Single unit usable too.
A ground-feeding woodpecker with a polka-dotted belly and a flash of yellow or salmon-pink under the wings depending on the population. Often seen hopping on lawns probing for ants.
Floor
7" × 7"
Height
16"
Mount
6–20 ft
Wall
1.0"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilation
One of the largest common birdhouse species. Deep box is important.
A robin-sized falcon and the most colorful raptor in North America, with rust, slate-blue, and bold black markings. Hovers on rapid wingbeats while scanning for grasshoppers and voles.
Floor
9" × 9"
Height
12"
Mount
10–30 ft
Wall
1.0"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilation
Largest commonly 3D-printed birdhouse. Consider UV-resistant filament for high-pole mounting.
Long-legged tropical duck of the Gulf Coast and Latin America, with a coral-pink bill and a loud whistling call. The species has expanded its US range dramatically over the past 30 years.
Floor
8" × 8"
Height
22"
Mount
6–20 ft
Wall
0.75"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilation
Custom 8×8×22 box with 4×3" oval hole, mounted near water.
The massive 'tiger of the woods'. A heavily-set owl with prominent ear tufts and yellow eyes. Apex nocturnal predator across nearly the entire Western Hemisphere; rarely uses enclosed boxes but readily adopts large platforms.
Floor
13" × 13"
Height
13"
Mount
20–40 ft
Wall
0.75"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilation
Custom open platform 13×13" with low walls and a roof, mounted 20+ ft high.
forests of any kinddesertswooded suburbsagricultural lands
The most common and widespread hawk in North America, large, broad-winged, with a rust-red tail in adults. Builds enormous stick nests on platforms or in tall trees, often visible from highways.
Floor
24" × 24"
Height
6"
Mount
20–60 ft
Wall
0.75"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilation
Custom raised platform 24×24" with 4" rim, mounted 20+ ft on a pole.
open country with scattered treesagricultural landsurban edges
The fastest animal on Earth, diving stoops have been clocked at over 240 mph. Originally a cliff-nester, it now thrives on skyscrapers, bridges, and tall human structures across the world.
Floor
24" × 30"
Height
8"
Mount
50–1000 ft
Wall
0.75"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilation
Custom 24×30 ledge box with 8" walls, gravel base, mounted on a tall structure.
Specialist fish-eagle of lakes, coasts, and rivers worldwide. Long-winged and brown-and-white, it hunts by diving feet-first into water from heights of 30+ ft, then carries fish away aerodynamically aligned head-first.
Floor
48" × 48"
Height
6"
Mount
20–60 ft
Wall
0.75"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilation
Custom 48×48 platform on a 20+ ft pole, ideally over or beside water.
Tiny, energetic brown bird with a startlingly loud, bubbling song for its size. Fills any cavity it claims with sticks and aggressively defends its territory, even against birds twice its weight.
Warm reddish-brown wren of the southeastern US with a striking white eyebrow and a ringing 'teakettle, teakettle' call. Pairs stay together year-round and sing duets in spring.
Iridescent blue-green above and snow-white below, this aerial insectivore depends almost entirely on natural tree cavities for nesting. Often the first cavity nester back from migration in early spring.
Western counterpart to the Tree Swallow, with a metallic green back and violet rump that flash in the sun. White flanks wrap up onto the rump in distinctive saddlebag patches.
The poster species for nest-box conservation: a rust-and-blue thrush whose populations rebounded thanks to monitored nest-box programs. Hunts insects from a low perch by dropping to the ground.
Brilliant golden-orange warbler of southern swamp forests, one of only two North American warblers that nest in cavities. The intense yellow head is unmistakable in a dim wooded wetland.
Pale, drab-looking flycatcher of the arid Southwest with a soft yellow belly and a distinctive 'ka-brrick' call. Nests in cavities and often lines its nest with bits of shed snake skin.
Medium woodpecker named for the messy yellow wash on its belly and the neat horizontal rows of sap-wells it drills into trees. The only highly migratory woodpecker in eastern North America.
Looks like an oversize Downy Woodpecker with a much heftier, chisel-like bill. Bores into solid wood after wood-boring beetle grubs and is often heard before it's seen.
Mesquite-country woodpecker of South Texas and Mexico, the western counterpart to the Red-bellied. Males show a small golden patch above the bill and a separate red crown, a tidy three-tone head pattern.
The familiar mournful 'coo-OOoo-OOoo' of yards across the continent, plump, with a long tapered tail and soft brown plumage. One of the most-hunted game birds in North America and still abundant.
Square-tailed swallow with a buffy rump and chestnut throat, builds gourd-shaped mud nests in dense colonies under bridges and cliff overhangs. The famous 'swallows of Capistrano.'
Close cousin of the Cliff Swallow with a rusty throat instead of dark, originally nesting in limestone caves. Has steadily expanded its range north and now uses bridges and culverts alongside its ancestral caverns.
Slate-gray with a black cap and rufous undertail, named for its cat-like mewing call. A consummate mimic that strings together dozens of phrases in a long rambling improv song.
The largest North American swallow, with adult males in deep glossy purple-blue. In the East, almost the entire population now depends on human-supplied housing, gourds and apartment-style boxes.
Floor
6" × 6"
Height
6"
Mount
10–20 ft
Wall
0.75"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilation
Typically in apartment-style multi-unit housing. Single unit usable too.
A ground-feeding woodpecker with a polka-dotted belly and a flash of yellow or salmon-pink under the wings depending on the population. Often seen hopping on lawns probing for ants.
Floor
7" × 7"
Height
16"
Mount
6–20 ft
Wall
1.0"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilation
One of the largest common birdhouse species. Deep box is important.
A robin-sized falcon and the most colorful raptor in North America, with rust, slate-blue, and bold black markings. Hovers on rapid wingbeats while scanning for grasshoppers and voles.
Floor
9" × 9"
Height
12"
Mount
10–30 ft
Wall
1.0"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilation
Largest commonly 3D-printed birdhouse. Consider UV-resistant filament for high-pole mounting.
Long-legged tropical duck of the Gulf Coast and Latin America, with a coral-pink bill and a loud whistling call. The species has expanded its US range dramatically over the past 30 years.
Floor
8" × 8"
Height
22"
Mount
6–20 ft
Wall
0.75"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilation
Custom 8×8×22 box with 4×3" oval hole, mounted near water.
The massive 'tiger of the woods'. A heavily-set owl with prominent ear tufts and yellow eyes. Apex nocturnal predator across nearly the entire Western Hemisphere; rarely uses enclosed boxes but readily adopts large platforms.
Floor
13" × 13"
Height
13"
Mount
20–40 ft
Wall
0.75"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilation
Custom open platform 13×13" with low walls and a roof, mounted 20+ ft high.
forests of any kinddesertswooded suburbsagricultural lands
The most common and widespread hawk in North America, large, broad-winged, with a rust-red tail in adults. Builds enormous stick nests on platforms or in tall trees, often visible from highways.
Floor
24" × 24"
Height
6"
Mount
20–60 ft
Wall
0.75"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilation
Custom raised platform 24×24" with 4" rim, mounted 20+ ft on a pole.
open country with scattered treesagricultural landsurban edges
The fastest animal on Earth, diving stoops have been clocked at over 240 mph. Originally a cliff-nester, it now thrives on skyscrapers, bridges, and tall human structures across the world.
Floor
24" × 30"
Height
8"
Mount
50–1000 ft
Wall
0.75"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilation
Custom 24×30 ledge box with 8" walls, gravel base, mounted on a tall structure.
Specialist fish-eagle of lakes, coasts, and rivers worldwide. Long-winged and brown-and-white, it hunts by diving feet-first into water from heights of 30+ ft, then carries fish away aerodynamically aligned head-first.
Floor
48" × 48"
Height
6"
Mount
20–60 ft
Wall
0.75"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilation
Custom 48×48 platform on a 20+ ft pole, ideally over or beside water.
Tiny, energetic brown bird with a startlingly loud, bubbling song for its size. Fills any cavity it claims with sticks and aggressively defends its territory, even against birds twice its weight.
Iridescent blue-green above and snow-white below, this aerial insectivore depends almost entirely on natural tree cavities for nesting. Often the first cavity nester back from migration in early spring.
Western counterpart to the Tree Swallow, with a metallic green back and violet rump that flash in the sun. White flanks wrap up onto the rump in distinctive saddlebag patches.
Pale, drab-looking flycatcher of the arid Southwest with a soft yellow belly and a distinctive 'ka-brrick' call. Nests in cavities and often lines its nest with bits of shed snake skin.
Looks like an oversize Downy Woodpecker with a much heftier, chisel-like bill. Bores into solid wood after wood-boring beetle grubs and is often heard before it's seen.
The familiar mournful 'coo-OOoo-OOoo' of yards across the continent, plump, with a long tapered tail and soft brown plumage. One of the most-hunted game birds in North America and still abundant.
Square-tailed swallow with a buffy rump and chestnut throat, builds gourd-shaped mud nests in dense colonies under bridges and cliff overhangs. The famous 'swallows of Capistrano.'
Close cousin of the Cliff Swallow with a rusty throat instead of dark, originally nesting in limestone caves. Has steadily expanded its range north and now uses bridges and culverts alongside its ancestral caverns.
The largest North American swallow, with adult males in deep glossy purple-blue. In the East, almost the entire population now depends on human-supplied housing, gourds and apartment-style boxes.
Floor
6" × 6"
Height
6"
Mount
10–20 ft
Wall
0.75"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilation
Typically in apartment-style multi-unit housing. Single unit usable too.
A robin-sized falcon and the most colorful raptor in North America, with rust, slate-blue, and bold black markings. Hovers on rapid wingbeats while scanning for grasshoppers and voles.
Floor
9" × 9"
Height
12"
Mount
10–30 ft
Wall
1.0"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilation
Largest commonly 3D-printed birdhouse. Consider UV-resistant filament for high-pole mounting.
Tiny, energetic brown bird with a startlingly loud, bubbling song for its size. Fills any cavity it claims with sticks and aggressively defends its territory, even against birds twice its weight.
Warm reddish-brown wren of the southeastern US with a striking white eyebrow and a ringing 'teakettle, teakettle' call. Pairs stay together year-round and sing duets in spring.
Iridescent blue-green above and snow-white below, this aerial insectivore depends almost entirely on natural tree cavities for nesting. Often the first cavity nester back from migration in early spring.
Western counterpart to the Tree Swallow, with a metallic green back and violet rump that flash in the sun. White flanks wrap up onto the rump in distinctive saddlebag patches.
The poster species for nest-box conservation: a rust-and-blue thrush whose populations rebounded thanks to monitored nest-box programs. Hunts insects from a low perch by dropping to the ground.
Brilliant golden-orange warbler of southern swamp forests, one of only two North American warblers that nest in cavities. The intense yellow head is unmistakable in a dim wooded wetland.
Pale, drab-looking flycatcher of the arid Southwest with a soft yellow belly and a distinctive 'ka-brrick' call. Nests in cavities and often lines its nest with bits of shed snake skin.
Medium woodpecker named for the messy yellow wash on its belly and the neat horizontal rows of sap-wells it drills into trees. The only highly migratory woodpecker in eastern North America.
Looks like an oversize Downy Woodpecker with a much heftier, chisel-like bill. Bores into solid wood after wood-boring beetle grubs and is often heard before it's seen.
Mesquite-country woodpecker of South Texas and Mexico, the western counterpart to the Red-bellied. Males show a small golden patch above the bill and a separate red crown, a tidy three-tone head pattern.
The familiar mournful 'coo-OOoo-OOoo' of yards across the continent, plump, with a long tapered tail and soft brown plumage. One of the most-hunted game birds in North America and still abundant.
Square-tailed swallow with a buffy rump and chestnut throat, builds gourd-shaped mud nests in dense colonies under bridges and cliff overhangs. The famous 'swallows of Capistrano.'
Close cousin of the Cliff Swallow with a rusty throat instead of dark, originally nesting in limestone caves. Has steadily expanded its range north and now uses bridges and culverts alongside its ancestral caverns.
Slate-gray with a black cap and rufous undertail, named for its cat-like mewing call. A consummate mimic that strings together dozens of phrases in a long rambling improv song.
The largest North American swallow, with adult males in deep glossy purple-blue. In the East, almost the entire population now depends on human-supplied housing, gourds and apartment-style boxes.
Floor
6" × 6"
Height
6"
Mount
10–20 ft
Wall
0.75"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilation
Typically in apartment-style multi-unit housing. Single unit usable too.
A ground-feeding woodpecker with a polka-dotted belly and a flash of yellow or salmon-pink under the wings depending on the population. Often seen hopping on lawns probing for ants.
Floor
7" × 7"
Height
16"
Mount
6–20 ft
Wall
1.0"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilation
One of the largest common birdhouse species. Deep box is important.
A robin-sized falcon and the most colorful raptor in North America, with rust, slate-blue, and bold black markings. Hovers on rapid wingbeats while scanning for grasshoppers and voles.
Floor
9" × 9"
Height
12"
Mount
10–30 ft
Wall
1.0"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilation
Largest commonly 3D-printed birdhouse. Consider UV-resistant filament for high-pole mounting.
Long-legged tropical duck of the Gulf Coast and Latin America, with a coral-pink bill and a loud whistling call. The species has expanded its US range dramatically over the past 30 years.
Floor
8" × 8"
Height
22"
Mount
6–20 ft
Wall
0.75"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilation
Custom 8×8×22 box with 4×3" oval hole, mounted near water.
The massive 'tiger of the woods'. A heavily-set owl with prominent ear tufts and yellow eyes. Apex nocturnal predator across nearly the entire Western Hemisphere; rarely uses enclosed boxes but readily adopts large platforms.
Floor
13" × 13"
Height
13"
Mount
20–40 ft
Wall
0.75"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilation
Custom open platform 13×13" with low walls and a roof, mounted 20+ ft high.
forests of any kinddesertswooded suburbsagricultural lands
The most common and widespread hawk in North America, large, broad-winged, with a rust-red tail in adults. Builds enormous stick nests on platforms or in tall trees, often visible from highways.
Floor
24" × 24"
Height
6"
Mount
20–60 ft
Wall
0.75"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilation
Custom raised platform 24×24" with 4" rim, mounted 20+ ft on a pole.
open country with scattered treesagricultural landsurban edges
The fastest animal on Earth, diving stoops have been clocked at over 240 mph. Originally a cliff-nester, it now thrives on skyscrapers, bridges, and tall human structures across the world.
Floor
24" × 30"
Height
8"
Mount
50–1000 ft
Wall
0.75"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilation
Custom 24×30 ledge box with 8" walls, gravel base, mounted on a tall structure.
Specialist fish-eagle of lakes, coasts, and rivers worldwide. Long-winged and brown-and-white, it hunts by diving feet-first into water from heights of 30+ ft, then carries fish away aerodynamically aligned head-first.
Floor
48" × 48"
Height
6"
Mount
20–60 ft
Wall
0.75"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilation
Custom 48×48 platform on a 20+ ft pole, ideally over or beside water.
Tiny, energetic brown bird with a startlingly loud, bubbling song for its size. Fills any cavity it claims with sticks and aggressively defends its territory, even against birds twice its weight.
Iridescent blue-green above and snow-white below, this aerial insectivore depends almost entirely on natural tree cavities for nesting. Often the first cavity nester back from migration in early spring.
Western counterpart to the Tree Swallow, with a metallic green back and violet rump that flash in the sun. White flanks wrap up onto the rump in distinctive saddlebag patches.
Brilliant golden-orange warbler of southern swamp forests, one of only two North American warblers that nest in cavities. The intense yellow head is unmistakable in a dim wooded wetland.
Medium woodpecker named for the messy yellow wash on its belly and the neat horizontal rows of sap-wells it drills into trees. The only highly migratory woodpecker in eastern North America.
Looks like an oversize Downy Woodpecker with a much heftier, chisel-like bill. Bores into solid wood after wood-boring beetle grubs and is often heard before it's seen.
The familiar mournful 'coo-OOoo-OOoo' of yards across the continent, plump, with a long tapered tail and soft brown plumage. One of the most-hunted game birds in North America and still abundant.
Square-tailed swallow with a buffy rump and chestnut throat, builds gourd-shaped mud nests in dense colonies under bridges and cliff overhangs. The famous 'swallows of Capistrano.'
Close cousin of the Cliff Swallow with a rusty throat instead of dark, originally nesting in limestone caves. Has steadily expanded its range north and now uses bridges and culverts alongside its ancestral caverns.
Slate-gray with a black cap and rufous undertail, named for its cat-like mewing call. A consummate mimic that strings together dozens of phrases in a long rambling improv song.
The largest North American swallow, with adult males in deep glossy purple-blue. In the East, almost the entire population now depends on human-supplied housing, gourds and apartment-style boxes.
Floor
6" × 6"
Height
6"
Mount
10–20 ft
Wall
0.75"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilation
Typically in apartment-style multi-unit housing. Single unit usable too.
A robin-sized falcon and the most colorful raptor in North America, with rust, slate-blue, and bold black markings. Hovers on rapid wingbeats while scanning for grasshoppers and voles.
Floor
9" × 9"
Height
12"
Mount
10–30 ft
Wall
1.0"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilation
Largest commonly 3D-printed birdhouse. Consider UV-resistant filament for high-pole mounting.
Long-legged tropical duck of the Gulf Coast and Latin America, with a coral-pink bill and a loud whistling call. The species has expanded its US range dramatically over the past 30 years.
Floor
8" × 8"
Height
22"
Mount
6–20 ft
Wall
0.75"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilation
Custom 8×8×22 box with 4×3" oval hole, mounted near water.
The massive 'tiger of the woods'. A heavily-set owl with prominent ear tufts and yellow eyes. Apex nocturnal predator across nearly the entire Western Hemisphere; rarely uses enclosed boxes but readily adopts large platforms.
Floor
13" × 13"
Height
13"
Mount
20–40 ft
Wall
0.75"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilation
Custom open platform 13×13" with low walls and a roof, mounted 20+ ft high.
forests of any kinddesertswooded suburbsagricultural lands
The most common and widespread hawk in North America, large, broad-winged, with a rust-red tail in adults. Builds enormous stick nests on platforms or in tall trees, often visible from highways.
Floor
24" × 24"
Height
6"
Mount
20–60 ft
Wall
0.75"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilation
Custom raised platform 24×24" with 4" rim, mounted 20+ ft on a pole.
open country with scattered treesagricultural landsurban edges
The fastest animal on Earth, diving stoops have been clocked at over 240 mph. Originally a cliff-nester, it now thrives on skyscrapers, bridges, and tall human structures across the world.
Floor
24" × 30"
Height
8"
Mount
50–1000 ft
Wall
0.75"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilation
Custom 24×30 ledge box with 8" walls, gravel base, mounted on a tall structure.
Specialist fish-eagle of lakes, coasts, and rivers worldwide. Long-winged and brown-and-white, it hunts by diving feet-first into water from heights of 30+ ft, then carries fish away aerodynamically aligned head-first.
Floor
48" × 48"
Height
6"
Mount
20–60 ft
Wall
0.75"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilation
Custom 48×48 platform on a 20+ ft pole, ideally over or beside water.
Tiny, energetic brown bird with a startlingly loud, bubbling song for its size. Fills any cavity it claims with sticks and aggressively defends its territory, even against birds twice its weight.
Iridescent blue-green above and snow-white below, this aerial insectivore depends almost entirely on natural tree cavities for nesting. Often the first cavity nester back from migration in early spring.
Brilliant golden-orange warbler of southern swamp forests, one of only two North American warblers that nest in cavities. The intense yellow head is unmistakable in a dim wooded wetland.
Medium woodpecker named for the messy yellow wash on its belly and the neat horizontal rows of sap-wells it drills into trees. The only highly migratory woodpecker in eastern North America.
Looks like an oversize Downy Woodpecker with a much heftier, chisel-like bill. Bores into solid wood after wood-boring beetle grubs and is often heard before it's seen.
Square-tailed swallow with a buffy rump and chestnut throat, builds gourd-shaped mud nests in dense colonies under bridges and cliff overhangs. The famous 'swallows of Capistrano.'
Close cousin of the Cliff Swallow with a rusty throat instead of dark, originally nesting in limestone caves. Has steadily expanded its range north and now uses bridges and culverts alongside its ancestral caverns.
Slate-gray with a black cap and rufous undertail, named for its cat-like mewing call. A consummate mimic that strings together dozens of phrases in a long rambling improv song.
The largest North American swallow, with adult males in deep glossy purple-blue. In the East, almost the entire population now depends on human-supplied housing, gourds and apartment-style boxes.
Floor
6" × 6"
Height
6"
Mount
10–20 ft
Wall
0.75"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilation
Typically in apartment-style multi-unit housing. Single unit usable too.
A robin-sized falcon and the most colorful raptor in North America, with rust, slate-blue, and bold black markings. Hovers on rapid wingbeats while scanning for grasshoppers and voles.
Floor
9" × 9"
Height
12"
Mount
10–30 ft
Wall
1.0"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilation
Largest commonly 3D-printed birdhouse. Consider UV-resistant filament for high-pole mounting.
Long-legged tropical duck of the Gulf Coast and Latin America, with a coral-pink bill and a loud whistling call. The species has expanded its US range dramatically over the past 30 years.
Floor
8" × 8"
Height
22"
Mount
6–20 ft
Wall
0.75"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilation
Custom 8×8×22 box with 4×3" oval hole, mounted near water.
The massive 'tiger of the woods'. A heavily-set owl with prominent ear tufts and yellow eyes. Apex nocturnal predator across nearly the entire Western Hemisphere; rarely uses enclosed boxes but readily adopts large platforms.
Floor
13" × 13"
Height
13"
Mount
20–40 ft
Wall
0.75"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilation
Custom open platform 13×13" with low walls and a roof, mounted 20+ ft high.
forests of any kinddesertswooded suburbsagricultural lands
The most common and widespread hawk in North America, large, broad-winged, with a rust-red tail in adults. Builds enormous stick nests on platforms or in tall trees, often visible from highways.
Floor
24" × 24"
Height
6"
Mount
20–60 ft
Wall
0.75"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilation
Custom raised platform 24×24" with 4" rim, mounted 20+ ft on a pole.
open country with scattered treesagricultural landsurban edges
The fastest animal on Earth, diving stoops have been clocked at over 240 mph. Originally a cliff-nester, it now thrives on skyscrapers, bridges, and tall human structures across the world.
Floor
24" × 30"
Height
8"
Mount
50–1000 ft
Wall
0.75"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilation
Custom 24×30 ledge box with 8" walls, gravel base, mounted on a tall structure.
Specialist fish-eagle of lakes, coasts, and rivers worldwide. Long-winged and brown-and-white, it hunts by diving feet-first into water from heights of 30+ ft, then carries fish away aerodynamically aligned head-first.
Floor
48" × 48"
Height
6"
Mount
20–60 ft
Wall
0.75"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilation
Custom 48×48 platform on a 20+ ft pole, ideally over or beside water.
Tiny, energetic brown bird with a startlingly loud, bubbling song for its size. Fills any cavity it claims with sticks and aggressively defends its territory, even against birds twice its weight.
Brilliant golden-orange warbler of southern swamp forests, one of only two North American warblers that nest in cavities. The intense yellow head is unmistakable in a dim wooded wetland.
The largest North American swallow, with adult males in deep glossy purple-blue. In the East, almost the entire population now depends on human-supplied housing, gourds and apartment-style boxes.
Floor
6" × 6"
Height
6"
Mount
10–20 ft
Wall
0.75"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilation
Typically in apartment-style multi-unit housing. Single unit usable too.
A robin-sized falcon and the most colorful raptor in North America, with rust, slate-blue, and bold black markings. Hovers on rapid wingbeats while scanning for grasshoppers and voles.
Floor
9" × 9"
Height
12"
Mount
10–30 ft
Wall
1.0"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilation
Largest commonly 3D-printed birdhouse. Consider UV-resistant filament for high-pole mounting.
Long-legged tropical duck of the Gulf Coast and Latin America, with a coral-pink bill and a loud whistling call. The species has expanded its US range dramatically over the past 30 years.
Floor
8" × 8"
Height
22"
Mount
6–20 ft
Wall
0.75"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilation
Custom 8×8×22 box with 4×3" oval hole, mounted near water.
The massive 'tiger of the woods'. A heavily-set owl with prominent ear tufts and yellow eyes. Apex nocturnal predator across nearly the entire Western Hemisphere; rarely uses enclosed boxes but readily adopts large platforms.
Floor
13" × 13"
Height
13"
Mount
20–40 ft
Wall
0.75"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilation
Custom open platform 13×13" with low walls and a roof, mounted 20+ ft high.
forests of any kinddesertswooded suburbsagricultural lands
The fastest animal on Earth, diving stoops have been clocked at over 240 mph. Originally a cliff-nester, it now thrives on skyscrapers, bridges, and tall human structures across the world.
Floor
24" × 30"
Height
8"
Mount
50–1000 ft
Wall
0.75"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilation
Custom 24×30 ledge box with 8" walls, gravel base, mounted on a tall structure.
Specialist fish-eagle of lakes, coasts, and rivers worldwide. Long-winged and brown-and-white, it hunts by diving feet-first into water from heights of 30+ ft, then carries fish away aerodynamically aligned head-first.
Floor
48" × 48"
Height
6"
Mount
20–60 ft
Wall
0.75"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilation
Custom 48×48 platform on a 20+ ft pole, ideally over or beside water.
Tiny, energetic brown bird with a startlingly loud, bubbling song for its size. Fills any cavity it claims with sticks and aggressively defends its territory, even against birds twice its weight.
Brilliant golden-orange warbler of southern swamp forests, one of only two North American warblers that nest in cavities. The intense yellow head is unmistakable in a dim wooded wetland.
The largest North American swallow, with adult males in deep glossy purple-blue. In the East, almost the entire population now depends on human-supplied housing, gourds and apartment-style boxes.
Floor
6" × 6"
Height
6"
Mount
10–20 ft
Wall
0.75"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilation
Typically in apartment-style multi-unit housing. Single unit usable too.
A robin-sized falcon and the most colorful raptor in North America, with rust, slate-blue, and bold black markings. Hovers on rapid wingbeats while scanning for grasshoppers and voles.
Floor
9" × 9"
Height
12"
Mount
10–30 ft
Wall
1.0"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilation
Largest commonly 3D-printed birdhouse. Consider UV-resistant filament for high-pole mounting.
Long-legged tropical duck of the Gulf Coast and Latin America, with a coral-pink bill and a loud whistling call. The species has expanded its US range dramatically over the past 30 years.
Floor
8" × 8"
Height
22"
Mount
6–20 ft
Wall
0.75"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilation
Custom 8×8×22 box with 4×3" oval hole, mounted near water.
The massive 'tiger of the woods'. A heavily-set owl with prominent ear tufts and yellow eyes. Apex nocturnal predator across nearly the entire Western Hemisphere; rarely uses enclosed boxes but readily adopts large platforms.
Floor
13" × 13"
Height
13"
Mount
20–40 ft
Wall
0.75"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilation
Custom open platform 13×13" with low walls and a roof, mounted 20+ ft high.
forests of any kinddesertswooded suburbsagricultural lands
The fastest animal on Earth, diving stoops have been clocked at over 240 mph. Originally a cliff-nester, it now thrives on skyscrapers, bridges, and tall human structures across the world.
Floor
24" × 30"
Height
8"
Mount
50–1000 ft
Wall
0.75"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilation
Custom 24×30 ledge box with 8" walls, gravel base, mounted on a tall structure.
Specialist fish-eagle of lakes, coasts, and rivers worldwide. Long-winged and brown-and-white, it hunts by diving feet-first into water from heights of 30+ ft, then carries fish away aerodynamically aligned head-first.
Floor
48" × 48"
Height
6"
Mount
20–60 ft
Wall
0.75"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilation
Custom 48×48 platform on a 20+ ft pole, ideally over or beside water.
Tiny, energetic brown bird with a startlingly loud, bubbling song for its size. Fills any cavity it claims with sticks and aggressively defends its territory, even against birds twice its weight.
Brilliant golden-orange warbler of southern swamp forests, one of only two North American warblers that nest in cavities. The intense yellow head is unmistakable in a dim wooded wetland.
The largest North American swallow, with adult males in deep glossy purple-blue. In the East, almost the entire population now depends on human-supplied housing, gourds and apartment-style boxes.
Floor
6" × 6"
Height
6"
Mount
10–20 ft
Wall
0.75"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilation
Typically in apartment-style multi-unit housing. Single unit usable too.
A robin-sized falcon and the most colorful raptor in North America, with rust, slate-blue, and bold black markings. Hovers on rapid wingbeats while scanning for grasshoppers and voles.
Floor
9" × 9"
Height
12"
Mount
10–30 ft
Wall
1.0"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilation
Largest commonly 3D-printed birdhouse. Consider UV-resistant filament for high-pole mounting.
Long-legged tropical duck of the Gulf Coast and Latin America, with a coral-pink bill and a loud whistling call. The species has expanded its US range dramatically over the past 30 years.
Floor
8" × 8"
Height
22"
Mount
6–20 ft
Wall
0.75"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilation
Custom 8×8×22 box with 4×3" oval hole, mounted near water.
The massive 'tiger of the woods'. A heavily-set owl with prominent ear tufts and yellow eyes. Apex nocturnal predator across nearly the entire Western Hemisphere; rarely uses enclosed boxes but readily adopts large platforms.
Floor
13" × 13"
Height
13"
Mount
20–40 ft
Wall
0.75"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilation
Custom open platform 13×13" with low walls and a roof, mounted 20+ ft high.
forests of any kinddesertswooded suburbsagricultural lands
The fastest animal on Earth, diving stoops have been clocked at over 240 mph. Originally a cliff-nester, it now thrives on skyscrapers, bridges, and tall human structures across the world.
Floor
24" × 30"
Height
8"
Mount
50–1000 ft
Wall
0.75"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilation
Custom 24×30 ledge box with 8" walls, gravel base, mounted on a tall structure.
Specialist fish-eagle of lakes, coasts, and rivers worldwide. Long-winged and brown-and-white, it hunts by diving feet-first into water from heights of 30+ ft, then carries fish away aerodynamically aligned head-first.
Floor
48" × 48"
Height
6"
Mount
20–60 ft
Wall
0.75"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilation
Custom 48×48 platform on a 20+ ft pole, ideally over or beside water.
Tiny, energetic brown bird with a startlingly loud, bubbling song for its size. Fills any cavity it claims with sticks and aggressively defends its territory, even against birds twice its weight.
The largest North American swallow, with adult males in deep glossy purple-blue. In the East, almost the entire population now depends on human-supplied housing, gourds and apartment-style boxes.
Floor
6" × 6"
Height
6"
Mount
10–20 ft
Wall
0.75"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilation
Typically in apartment-style multi-unit housing. Single unit usable too.
A robin-sized falcon and the most colorful raptor in North America, with rust, slate-blue, and bold black markings. Hovers on rapid wingbeats while scanning for grasshoppers and voles.
Floor
9" × 9"
Height
12"
Mount
10–30 ft
Wall
1.0"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilation
Largest commonly 3D-printed birdhouse. Consider UV-resistant filament for high-pole mounting.
Long-legged tropical duck of the Gulf Coast and Latin America, with a coral-pink bill and a loud whistling call. The species has expanded its US range dramatically over the past 30 years.
Floor
8" × 8"
Height
22"
Mount
6–20 ft
Wall
0.75"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilation
Custom 8×8×22 box with 4×3" oval hole, mounted near water.
The massive 'tiger of the woods'. A heavily-set owl with prominent ear tufts and yellow eyes. Apex nocturnal predator across nearly the entire Western Hemisphere; rarely uses enclosed boxes but readily adopts large platforms.
Floor
13" × 13"
Height
13"
Mount
20–40 ft
Wall
0.75"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilation
Custom open platform 13×13" with low walls and a roof, mounted 20+ ft high.
forests of any kinddesertswooded suburbsagricultural lands
The fastest animal on Earth, diving stoops have been clocked at over 240 mph. Originally a cliff-nester, it now thrives on skyscrapers, bridges, and tall human structures across the world.
Floor
24" × 30"
Height
8"
Mount
50–1000 ft
Wall
0.75"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilation
Custom 24×30 ledge box with 8" walls, gravel base, mounted on a tall structure.
Specialist fish-eagle of lakes, coasts, and rivers worldwide. Long-winged and brown-and-white, it hunts by diving feet-first into water from heights of 30+ ft, then carries fish away aerodynamically aligned head-first.
Floor
48" × 48"
Height
6"
Mount
20–60 ft
Wall
0.75"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilation
Custom 48×48 platform on a 20+ ft pole, ideally over or beside water.
Tiny, energetic brown bird with a startlingly loud, bubbling song for its size. Fills any cavity it claims with sticks and aggressively defends its territory, even against birds twice its weight.
The largest North American swallow, with adult males in deep glossy purple-blue. In the East, almost the entire population now depends on human-supplied housing, gourds and apartment-style boxes.
Floor
6" × 6"
Height
6"
Mount
10–20 ft
Wall
0.75"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilation
Typically in apartment-style multi-unit housing. Single unit usable too.
A robin-sized falcon and the most colorful raptor in North America, with rust, slate-blue, and bold black markings. Hovers on rapid wingbeats while scanning for grasshoppers and voles.
Floor
9" × 9"
Height
12"
Mount
10–30 ft
Wall
1.0"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilation
Largest commonly 3D-printed birdhouse. Consider UV-resistant filament for high-pole mounting.
The massive 'tiger of the woods'. A heavily-set owl with prominent ear tufts and yellow eyes. Apex nocturnal predator across nearly the entire Western Hemisphere; rarely uses enclosed boxes but readily adopts large platforms.
Floor
13" × 13"
Height
13"
Mount
20–40 ft
Wall
0.75"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilation
Custom open platform 13×13" with low walls and a roof, mounted 20+ ft high.
forests of any kinddesertswooded suburbsagricultural lands
The fastest animal on Earth, diving stoops have been clocked at over 240 mph. Originally a cliff-nester, it now thrives on skyscrapers, bridges, and tall human structures across the world.
Floor
24" × 30"
Height
8"
Mount
50–1000 ft
Wall
0.75"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilation
Custom 24×30 ledge box with 8" walls, gravel base, mounted on a tall structure.
Specialist fish-eagle of lakes, coasts, and rivers worldwide. Long-winged and brown-and-white, it hunts by diving feet-first into water from heights of 30+ ft, then carries fish away aerodynamically aligned head-first.
Floor
48" × 48"
Height
6"
Mount
20–60 ft
Wall
0.75"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilation
Custom 48×48 platform on a 20+ ft pole, ideally over or beside water.
Tiny, energetic brown bird with a startlingly loud, bubbling song for its size. Fills any cavity it claims with sticks and aggressively defends its territory, even against birds twice its weight.
The largest North American swallow, with adult males in deep glossy purple-blue. In the East, almost the entire population now depends on human-supplied housing, gourds and apartment-style boxes.
Floor
6" × 6"
Height
6"
Mount
10–20 ft
Wall
0.75"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilation
Typically in apartment-style multi-unit housing. Single unit usable too.
A robin-sized falcon and the most colorful raptor in North America, with rust, slate-blue, and bold black markings. Hovers on rapid wingbeats while scanning for grasshoppers and voles.
Floor
9" × 9"
Height
12"
Mount
10–30 ft
Wall
1.0"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilation
Largest commonly 3D-printed birdhouse. Consider UV-resistant filament for high-pole mounting.
Long-legged tropical duck of the Gulf Coast and Latin America, with a coral-pink bill and a loud whistling call. The species has expanded its US range dramatically over the past 30 years.
Floor
8" × 8"
Height
22"
Mount
6–20 ft
Wall
0.75"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilation
Custom 8×8×22 box with 4×3" oval hole, mounted near water.
The massive 'tiger of the woods'. A heavily-set owl with prominent ear tufts and yellow eyes. Apex nocturnal predator across nearly the entire Western Hemisphere; rarely uses enclosed boxes but readily adopts large platforms.
Floor
13" × 13"
Height
13"
Mount
20–40 ft
Wall
0.75"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilation
Custom open platform 13×13" with low walls and a roof, mounted 20+ ft high.
forests of any kinddesertswooded suburbsagricultural lands
The fastest animal on Earth, diving stoops have been clocked at over 240 mph. Originally a cliff-nester, it now thrives on skyscrapers, bridges, and tall human structures across the world.
Floor
24" × 30"
Height
8"
Mount
50–1000 ft
Wall
0.75"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilation
Custom 24×30 ledge box with 8" walls, gravel base, mounted on a tall structure.
Specialist fish-eagle of lakes, coasts, and rivers worldwide. Long-winged and brown-and-white, it hunts by diving feet-first into water from heights of 30+ ft, then carries fish away aerodynamically aligned head-first.
Floor
48" × 48"
Height
6"
Mount
20–60 ft
Wall
0.75"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilation
Custom 48×48 platform on a 20+ ft pole, ideally over or beside water.
Tiny, energetic brown bird with a startlingly loud, bubbling song for its size. Fills any cavity it claims with sticks and aggressively defends its territory, even against birds twice its weight.
The largest North American swallow, with adult males in deep glossy purple-blue. In the East, almost the entire population now depends on human-supplied housing, gourds and apartment-style boxes.
Floor
6" × 6"
Height
6"
Mount
10–20 ft
Wall
0.75"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilation
Typically in apartment-style multi-unit housing. Single unit usable too.
A robin-sized falcon and the most colorful raptor in North America, with rust, slate-blue, and bold black markings. Hovers on rapid wingbeats while scanning for grasshoppers and voles.
Floor
9" × 9"
Height
12"
Mount
10–30 ft
Wall
1.0"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilation
Largest commonly 3D-printed birdhouse. Consider UV-resistant filament for high-pole mounting.
Specialist fish-eagle of lakes, coasts, and rivers worldwide. Long-winged and brown-and-white, it hunts by diving feet-first into water from heights of 30+ ft, then carries fish away aerodynamically aligned head-first.
Floor
48" × 48"
Height
6"
Mount
20–60 ft
Wall
0.75"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilation
Custom 48×48 platform on a 20+ ft pole, ideally over or beside water.
Tiny, energetic brown bird with a startlingly loud, bubbling song for its size. Fills any cavity it claims with sticks and aggressively defends its territory, even against birds twice its weight.
The largest North American swallow, with adult males in deep glossy purple-blue. In the East, almost the entire population now depends on human-supplied housing, gourds and apartment-style boxes.
Floor
6" × 6"
Height
6"
Mount
10–20 ft
Wall
0.75"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilation
Typically in apartment-style multi-unit housing. Single unit usable too.
A robin-sized falcon and the most colorful raptor in North America, with rust, slate-blue, and bold black markings. Hovers on rapid wingbeats while scanning for grasshoppers and voles.
Floor
9" × 9"
Height
12"
Mount
10–30 ft
Wall
1.0"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilation
Largest commonly 3D-printed birdhouse. Consider UV-resistant filament for high-pole mounting.
Specialist fish-eagle of lakes, coasts, and rivers worldwide. Long-winged and brown-and-white, it hunts by diving feet-first into water from heights of 30+ ft, then carries fish away aerodynamically aligned head-first.
Floor
48" × 48"
Height
6"
Mount
20–60 ft
Wall
0.75"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilation
Custom 48×48 platform on a 20+ ft pole, ideally over or beside water.
Tiny, energetic brown bird with a startlingly loud, bubbling song for its size. Fills any cavity it claims with sticks and aggressively defends its territory, even against birds twice its weight.
The largest North American swallow, with adult males in deep glossy purple-blue. In the East, almost the entire population now depends on human-supplied housing, gourds and apartment-style boxes.
Floor
6" × 6"
Height
6"
Mount
10–20 ft
Wall
0.75"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilation
Typically in apartment-style multi-unit housing. Single unit usable too.
A robin-sized falcon and the most colorful raptor in North America, with rust, slate-blue, and bold black markings. Hovers on rapid wingbeats while scanning for grasshoppers and voles.
Floor
9" × 9"
Height
12"
Mount
10–30 ft
Wall
1.0"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilation
Largest commonly 3D-printed birdhouse. Consider UV-resistant filament for high-pole mounting.
Long-legged tropical duck of the Gulf Coast and Latin America, with a coral-pink bill and a loud whistling call. The species has expanded its US range dramatically over the past 30 years.
Floor
8" × 8"
Height
22"
Mount
6–20 ft
Wall
0.75"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilation
Custom 8×8×22 box with 4×3" oval hole, mounted near water.
The massive 'tiger of the woods'. A heavily-set owl with prominent ear tufts and yellow eyes. Apex nocturnal predator across nearly the entire Western Hemisphere; rarely uses enclosed boxes but readily adopts large platforms.
Floor
13" × 13"
Height
13"
Mount
20–40 ft
Wall
0.75"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilation
Custom open platform 13×13" with low walls and a roof, mounted 20+ ft high.
forests of any kinddesertswooded suburbsagricultural lands
The fastest animal on Earth, diving stoops have been clocked at over 240 mph. Originally a cliff-nester, it now thrives on skyscrapers, bridges, and tall human structures across the world.
Floor
24" × 30"
Height
8"
Mount
50–1000 ft
Wall
0.75"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilation
Custom 24×30 ledge box with 8" walls, gravel base, mounted on a tall structure.
Specialist fish-eagle of lakes, coasts, and rivers worldwide. Long-winged and brown-and-white, it hunts by diving feet-first into water from heights of 30+ ft, then carries fish away aerodynamically aligned head-first.
Floor
48" × 48"
Height
6"
Mount
20–60 ft
Wall
0.75"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilation
Custom 48×48 platform on a 20+ ft pole, ideally over or beside water.
Tiny, energetic brown bird with a startlingly loud, bubbling song for its size. Fills any cavity it claims with sticks and aggressively defends its territory, even against birds twice its weight.
A robin-sized falcon and the most colorful raptor in North America, with rust, slate-blue, and bold black markings. Hovers on rapid wingbeats while scanning for grasshoppers and voles.
Floor
9" × 9"
Height
12"
Mount
10–30 ft
Wall
1.0"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilation
Largest commonly 3D-printed birdhouse. Consider UV-resistant filament for high-pole mounting.
The massive 'tiger of the woods'. A heavily-set owl with prominent ear tufts and yellow eyes. Apex nocturnal predator across nearly the entire Western Hemisphere; rarely uses enclosed boxes but readily adopts large platforms.
Floor
13" × 13"
Height
13"
Mount
20–40 ft
Wall
0.75"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilation
Custom open platform 13×13" with low walls and a roof, mounted 20+ ft high.
forests of any kinddesertswooded suburbsagricultural lands
The fastest animal on Earth, diving stoops have been clocked at over 240 mph. Originally a cliff-nester, it now thrives on skyscrapers, bridges, and tall human structures across the world.
Floor
24" × 30"
Height
8"
Mount
50–1000 ft
Wall
0.75"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilation
Custom 24×30 ledge box with 8" walls, gravel base, mounted on a tall structure.
Specialist fish-eagle of lakes, coasts, and rivers worldwide. Long-winged and brown-and-white, it hunts by diving feet-first into water from heights of 30+ ft, then carries fish away aerodynamically aligned head-first.
Floor
48" × 48"
Height
6"
Mount
20–60 ft
Wall
0.75"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilation
Custom 48×48 platform on a 20+ ft pole, ideally over or beside water.
Tiny European songbird with a sky-blue cap, bright yellow underparts, and a bouncy disposition at garden feeders. Famous in the UK for the mid-century habit of pecking through milk-bottle foil caps.
Eurasia's smallest tit - a tiny conifer specialist with a black cap, white cheeks, and a diagnostic white stripe running down the back of the neck. Weighs about as much as a US penny.
Eurasia's largest tit, easily told by the bold black stripe down its yellow belly. The width of the male's stripe correlates with social dominance, a tiny billboard for status.
Slate-blue-backed nuthatch of European woodlands that walks head-down on tree trunks like its American cousins. Plasters mud around its nest hole to narrow the entrance to its preferred size.
Crisp black-and-white European flycatcher that breeds in deciduous woodland and famously favors well-positioned nest boxes. One of the most-studied songbirds in evolutionary biology.
Glossy-capped little tit of mature oak and beech woods. Nearly identical in plumage to Willow Tit, but separable by its sneeze-like 'pitchew' call and the small, neat black bib. The 'marsh' name is misleading - it's a dry-woodland bird.
The only tit in Europe with a spiky black-and-white crest, unmistakable once you've seen it. A pine-forest specialist with a soft trilling 'perurrrrr' call, found wherever mature Scots pine or Norway spruce stands have been left alone.
25 mm hole. Same body as Coal Tit / Blue Tit. Stuff the floor with 1" of wood shavings - they'll excavate the rest themselves to mimic a rotted stump cavity.
mature conifer forestsScots and Caledonian pinespruce plantations with standing deadwoodwooded gardens with old conifers
The chestnut-crowned, white-collared cousin of the House Sparrow - neat, both-sexes-identical, more rural and arboreal than its city-dwelling relative. UK Red-listed and dramatically declined across western Europe; still common across Asia, where it fills the urban niche House Sparrow occupies in Europe.
28 mm hole, identical body to the Blue Tit / Pied Flycatcher small box. They prefer COLONIAL nesting - install boxes in groups of 3–6 spaced 5–10 m apart on the same row of trees or wall.
traditional farmland with hedgerowsvillage edges and orchardswood-pasture and copsesriverbank tree lines
Iridescent, dagger-billed mimic introduced to North America from Europe, now one of the most abundant birds on the continent. Forms massive synchronized aerial flocks, murmurations, at dusk.
Worldwide swallow with a deeply forked tail and rich blue-and-orange plumage, almost always nesting under human-made structures now. Builds cup nests from mouthfuls of mud pellets and grass.
Plump, big-eyed European songbird with a bright orange-red face and breast, Britain's unofficial national bird. Aggressively territorial; the red breast is essentially a 'no trespassing' sign.
Drab brown European flycatcher with subtle streaks on its breast, sitting upright on an exposed perch and sallying out for flies. A late spring arrival in Europe after wintering in Africa.
Slim Eurasian songbird in black, white, and gray that pumps its long tail constantly as it walks. A cosmopolitan species with many regional plumage subspecies.
Sooty-gray European flycatcher of rocky country and cities, with the same flame-orange tail-shiver as the Common Redstart. Famously colonized bombed-out London after WWII.
Mount on the side of a brick or stone building, ideally with rough-textured surroundings. Black Redstarts prefer the urban-industrial aesthetic, quiet courtyards, factory walls, scrubby brownfield.
Glossy black European thrush with a bright yellow eyering and bill, the bird in 'Sing a Song of Sixpence.' A confident lawn forager and one of Europe's most prolific singers.
Mount in or near dense climber growth (ivy, honeysuckle, climbing rose). Blackbirds tolerate human activity well but want some screening from above and the side.
Stubby-tailed swallow with a blue-black back, white rump, and snow-white underparts that builds enclosed mud-cup nests under eaves. Highly colonial, nests are usually clustered together.
Ghostly pale owl with a heart-shaped face and the most sensitive hearing of any tested animal, can catch prey in total darkness. Doesn't hoot; delivers a chilling, drawn-out screech.
Floor
10" × 18"
Height
16"
Mount
12–30 ft
Wall
1.0"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
Squat, perpetually-frowning small owl of European farmland, Athena's owl, the symbol of Greek wisdom. Often hunts in daylight, perched on fence posts scanning for beetles and worms.
Floor
8" × 8"
Height
12"
Mount
8–20 ft
Wall
1.0"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilation
Often built as a horizontal tunnel (L-shaped). Consider a two-part print: tunnel + nesting chamber.
Stocky, large-headed European woodland owl whose classic 'twit-twoo' is actually a duet between a female ('twit') and a male ('twoo'). Strictly nocturnal and fiercely territorial.
Floor
10" × 10"
Height
18"
Mount
10–25 ft
Wall
1.0"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
Ventilation
Large chimney-style box. Multi-part print required. Add rough interior texture for owlets climbing out.
Jewel-toned Eurasian kingfisher with an electric-blue back and chestnut underparts that flash along streams. Dives from a perch to spear small fish, swallowing them headfirst back at the perch.
Floor
7" × 7"
Height
10"
Mount
1–3 ft
Wall
1.0"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
Drainage
Requires a long entrance tunnel (~12") angled slightly upward. Very specialist design, best as a multi-part horizontal tube.
Eurasia's smallest tit - a tiny conifer specialist with a black cap, white cheeks, and a diagnostic white stripe running down the back of the neck. Weighs about as much as a US penny.
The chestnut-crowned, white-collared cousin of the House Sparrow - neat, both-sexes-identical, more rural and arboreal than its city-dwelling relative. UK Red-listed and dramatically declined across western Europe; still common across Asia, where it fills the urban niche House Sparrow occupies in Europe.
28 mm hole, identical body to the Blue Tit / Pied Flycatcher small box. They prefer COLONIAL nesting - install boxes in groups of 3–6 spaced 5–10 m apart on the same row of trees or wall.
traditional farmland with hedgerowsvillage edges and orchardswood-pasture and copsesriverbank tree lines
Tiny European songbird with a sky-blue cap, bright yellow underparts, and a bouncy disposition at garden feeders. Famous in the UK for the mid-century habit of pecking through milk-bottle foil caps.
Eurasia's smallest tit - a tiny conifer specialist with a black cap, white cheeks, and a diagnostic white stripe running down the back of the neck. Weighs about as much as a US penny.
Eurasia's largest tit, easily told by the bold black stripe down its yellow belly. The width of the male's stripe correlates with social dominance, a tiny billboard for status.
Slate-blue-backed nuthatch of European woodlands that walks head-down on tree trunks like its American cousins. Plasters mud around its nest hole to narrow the entrance to its preferred size.
Crisp black-and-white European flycatcher that breeds in deciduous woodland and famously favors well-positioned nest boxes. One of the most-studied songbirds in evolutionary biology.
Glossy-capped little tit of mature oak and beech woods. Nearly identical in plumage to Willow Tit, but separable by its sneeze-like 'pitchew' call and the small, neat black bib. The 'marsh' name is misleading - it's a dry-woodland bird.
The only tit in Europe with a spiky black-and-white crest, unmistakable once you've seen it. A pine-forest specialist with a soft trilling 'perurrrrr' call, found wherever mature Scots pine or Norway spruce stands have been left alone.
25 mm hole. Same body as Coal Tit / Blue Tit. Stuff the floor with 1" of wood shavings - they'll excavate the rest themselves to mimic a rotted stump cavity.
mature conifer forestsScots and Caledonian pinespruce plantations with standing deadwoodwooded gardens with old conifers
The chestnut-crowned, white-collared cousin of the House Sparrow - neat, both-sexes-identical, more rural and arboreal than its city-dwelling relative. UK Red-listed and dramatically declined across western Europe; still common across Asia, where it fills the urban niche House Sparrow occupies in Europe.
28 mm hole, identical body to the Blue Tit / Pied Flycatcher small box. They prefer COLONIAL nesting - install boxes in groups of 3–6 spaced 5–10 m apart on the same row of trees or wall.
traditional farmland with hedgerowsvillage edges and orchardswood-pasture and copsesriverbank tree lines
Iridescent, dagger-billed mimic introduced to North America from Europe, now one of the most abundant birds on the continent. Forms massive synchronized aerial flocks, murmurations, at dusk.
A cryptically barked little woodpecker that breaks every rule of the family - it doesn't drill, it uses cavities, it eats almost nothing but ants, and when threatened it twists its neck in slow snake-like coils that gave the species its name. A vanished British breeder, a thriving central-European migrant, and one of the most-overlooked nest-box species in Europe.
32 mm hole, 5"×5" floor, 10" interior - slightly deeper than the tit boxes to accommodate the larger clutches (7–12 eggs). Mount 2–4 m up on a mature fruit tree or sun-warmed wall facing east. Don't pack the floor - they nest directly on the wood.
traditional orchards and vineyardswood-pasture with mature treesopen broadleaf woodland edgesvillage gardens with old fruit treesant-rich short pasture
Open-Front Shelf
Open-front nesting shelf, no entrance hole
Worldwide swallow with a deeply forked tail and rich blue-and-orange plumage, almost always nesting under human-made structures now. Builds cup nests from mouthfuls of mud pellets and grass.
Plump, big-eyed European songbird with a bright orange-red face and breast, Britain's unofficial national bird. Aggressively territorial; the red breast is essentially a 'no trespassing' sign.
Drab brown European flycatcher with subtle streaks on its breast, sitting upright on an exposed perch and sallying out for flies. A late spring arrival in Europe after wintering in Africa.
Slim Eurasian songbird in black, white, and gray that pumps its long tail constantly as it walks. A cosmopolitan species with many regional plumage subspecies.
Sooty-gray European flycatcher of rocky country and cities, with the same flame-orange tail-shiver as the Common Redstart. Famously colonized bombed-out London after WWII.
Mount on the side of a brick or stone building, ideally with rough-textured surroundings. Black Redstarts prefer the urban-industrial aesthetic, quiet courtyards, factory walls, scrubby brownfield.
Glossy black European thrush with a bright yellow eyering and bill, the bird in 'Sing a Song of Sixpence.' A confident lawn forager and one of Europe's most prolific singers.
Mount in or near dense climber growth (ivy, honeysuckle, climbing rose). Blackbirds tolerate human activity well but want some screening from above and the side.
Stubby-tailed swallow with a blue-black back, white rump, and snow-white underparts that builds enclosed mud-cup nests under eaves. Highly colonial, nests are usually clustered together.
Ghostly pale owl with a heart-shaped face and the most sensitive hearing of any tested animal, can catch prey in total darkness. Doesn't hoot; delivers a chilling, drawn-out screech.
Floor
10" × 18"
Height
16"
Mount
12–30 ft
Wall
1.0"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
Squat, perpetually-frowning small owl of European farmland, Athena's owl, the symbol of Greek wisdom. Often hunts in daylight, perched on fence posts scanning for beetles and worms.
Floor
8" × 8"
Height
12"
Mount
8–20 ft
Wall
1.0"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilation
Often built as a horizontal tunnel (L-shaped). Consider a two-part print: tunnel + nesting chamber.
Stocky, large-headed European woodland owl whose classic 'twit-twoo' is actually a duet between a female ('twit') and a male ('twoo'). Strictly nocturnal and fiercely territorial.
Floor
10" × 10"
Height
18"
Mount
10–25 ft
Wall
1.0"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
Ventilation
Large chimney-style box. Multi-part print required. Add rough interior texture for owlets climbing out.
Jewel-toned Eurasian kingfisher with an electric-blue back and chestnut underparts that flash along streams. Dives from a perch to spear small fish, swallowing them headfirst back at the perch.
Floor
7" × 7"
Height
10"
Mount
1–3 ft
Wall
1.0"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
Drainage
Requires a long entrance tunnel (~12") angled slightly upward. Very specialist design, best as a multi-part horizontal tube.
Stunning crow-sized cavity-nester in turquoise and chestnut - Europe's most exotic-looking native bird. Sallies for large insects from open perches, performs aerial 'rolling' courtship dives that give the family its name, and migrates 8 000 km each way to winter in southern Africa.
Floor
8" × 8"
Height
12"
Mount
10–25 ft
Wall
0.75"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilationPredator guard
70 mm hole, 8"×8" floor, 12" interior height. Heavy bird - wall thickness 0.75" is the minimum; predator guard around the hole strongly recommended. Pack 1–2" of wood shavings on the floor for the eggs.
open farmland with scattered old treesriver valleys with veteran oakssteppe and dehesa pasturelandMediterranean wood-pasture
Stunning cinnamon, black-and-white cavity nester with a huge erectile crown crest - instantly recognisable across Eurasia and Africa. Famous for its 'hoop-hoop-hoop' call (the source of the name) and for the conservation nest-box programmes that have rebuilt local populations from Switzerland to Spain.
Floor
8" × 8"
Height
12"
Mount
3–12 ft
Wall
0.75"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilationPredator guard
2.5" hole, 8"×8" floor, 12" interior. NO floor shavings - they nest on bare wood, sometimes with a foul-smelling secretion the female uses as predator deterrent. Don't be alarmed by the smell after fledging.
open farmland with scattered treesorchards and vineyardstraditional pasture and meadowwood-pasture and dehesavillage edges with old walls
Tiny European songbird with a sky-blue cap, bright yellow underparts, and a bouncy disposition at garden feeders. Famous in the UK for the mid-century habit of pecking through milk-bottle foil caps.
Eurasia's smallest tit - a tiny conifer specialist with a black cap, white cheeks, and a diagnostic white stripe running down the back of the neck. Weighs about as much as a US penny.
Eurasia's largest tit, easily told by the bold black stripe down its yellow belly. The width of the male's stripe correlates with social dominance, a tiny billboard for status.
Glossy-capped little tit of mature oak and beech woods. Nearly identical in plumage to Willow Tit, but separable by its sneeze-like 'pitchew' call and the small, neat black bib. The 'marsh' name is misleading - it's a dry-woodland bird.
The only tit in Europe with a spiky black-and-white crest, unmistakable once you've seen it. A pine-forest specialist with a soft trilling 'perurrrrr' call, found wherever mature Scots pine or Norway spruce stands have been left alone.
25 mm hole. Same body as Coal Tit / Blue Tit. Stuff the floor with 1" of wood shavings - they'll excavate the rest themselves to mimic a rotted stump cavity.
mature conifer forestsScots and Caledonian pinespruce plantations with standing deadwoodwooded gardens with old conifers
The chestnut-crowned, white-collared cousin of the House Sparrow - neat, both-sexes-identical, more rural and arboreal than its city-dwelling relative. UK Red-listed and dramatically declined across western Europe; still common across Asia, where it fills the urban niche House Sparrow occupies in Europe.
28 mm hole, identical body to the Blue Tit / Pied Flycatcher small box. They prefer COLONIAL nesting - install boxes in groups of 3–6 spaced 5–10 m apart on the same row of trees or wall.
traditional farmland with hedgerowsvillage edges and orchardswood-pasture and copsesriverbank tree lines
Open-Front Shelf
Open-front nesting shelf, no entrance hole
Worldwide swallow with a deeply forked tail and rich blue-and-orange plumage, almost always nesting under human-made structures now. Builds cup nests from mouthfuls of mud pellets and grass.
Plump, big-eyed European songbird with a bright orange-red face and breast, Britain's unofficial national bird. Aggressively territorial; the red breast is essentially a 'no trespassing' sign.
Slim Eurasian songbird in black, white, and gray that pumps its long tail constantly as it walks. A cosmopolitan species with many regional plumage subspecies.
Sooty-gray European flycatcher of rocky country and cities, with the same flame-orange tail-shiver as the Common Redstart. Famously colonized bombed-out London after WWII.
Mount on the side of a brick or stone building, ideally with rough-textured surroundings. Black Redstarts prefer the urban-industrial aesthetic, quiet courtyards, factory walls, scrubby brownfield.
Glossy black European thrush with a bright yellow eyering and bill, the bird in 'Sing a Song of Sixpence.' A confident lawn forager and one of Europe's most prolific singers.
Mount in or near dense climber growth (ivy, honeysuckle, climbing rose). Blackbirds tolerate human activity well but want some screening from above and the side.
Stubby-tailed swallow with a blue-black back, white rump, and snow-white underparts that builds enclosed mud-cup nests under eaves. Highly colonial, nests are usually clustered together.
Squat, perpetually-frowning small owl of European farmland, Athena's owl, the symbol of Greek wisdom. Often hunts in daylight, perched on fence posts scanning for beetles and worms.
Floor
8" × 8"
Height
12"
Mount
8–20 ft
Wall
1.0"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilation
Often built as a horizontal tunnel (L-shaped). Consider a two-part print: tunnel + nesting chamber.
Stunning cinnamon, black-and-white cavity nester with a huge erectile crown crest - instantly recognisable across Eurasia and Africa. Famous for its 'hoop-hoop-hoop' call (the source of the name) and for the conservation nest-box programmes that have rebuilt local populations from Switzerland to Spain.
Floor
8" × 8"
Height
12"
Mount
3–12 ft
Wall
0.75"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilationPredator guard
2.5" hole, 8"×8" floor, 12" interior. NO floor shavings - they nest on bare wood, sometimes with a foul-smelling secretion the female uses as predator deterrent. Don't be alarmed by the smell after fledging.
open farmland with scattered treesorchards and vineyardstraditional pasture and meadowwood-pasture and dehesavillage edges with old walls
Tiny European songbird with a sky-blue cap, bright yellow underparts, and a bouncy disposition at garden feeders. Famous in the UK for the mid-century habit of pecking through milk-bottle foil caps.
Eurasia's smallest tit - a tiny conifer specialist with a black cap, white cheeks, and a diagnostic white stripe running down the back of the neck. Weighs about as much as a US penny.
Eurasia's largest tit, easily told by the bold black stripe down its yellow belly. The width of the male's stripe correlates with social dominance, a tiny billboard for status.
Slate-blue-backed nuthatch of European woodlands that walks head-down on tree trunks like its American cousins. Plasters mud around its nest hole to narrow the entrance to its preferred size.
Glossy-capped little tit of mature oak and beech woods. Nearly identical in plumage to Willow Tit, but separable by its sneeze-like 'pitchew' call and the small, neat black bib. The 'marsh' name is misleading - it's a dry-woodland bird.
The only tit in Europe with a spiky black-and-white crest, unmistakable once you've seen it. A pine-forest specialist with a soft trilling 'perurrrrr' call, found wherever mature Scots pine or Norway spruce stands have been left alone.
25 mm hole. Same body as Coal Tit / Blue Tit. Stuff the floor with 1" of wood shavings - they'll excavate the rest themselves to mimic a rotted stump cavity.
mature conifer forestsScots and Caledonian pinespruce plantations with standing deadwoodwooded gardens with old conifers
The chestnut-crowned, white-collared cousin of the House Sparrow - neat, both-sexes-identical, more rural and arboreal than its city-dwelling relative. UK Red-listed and dramatically declined across western Europe; still common across Asia, where it fills the urban niche House Sparrow occupies in Europe.
28 mm hole, identical body to the Blue Tit / Pied Flycatcher small box. They prefer COLONIAL nesting - install boxes in groups of 3–6 spaced 5–10 m apart on the same row of trees or wall.
traditional farmland with hedgerowsvillage edges and orchardswood-pasture and copsesriverbank tree lines
Iridescent, dagger-billed mimic introduced to North America from Europe, now one of the most abundant birds on the continent. Forms massive synchronized aerial flocks, murmurations, at dusk.
Worldwide swallow with a deeply forked tail and rich blue-and-orange plumage, almost always nesting under human-made structures now. Builds cup nests from mouthfuls of mud pellets and grass.
Plump, big-eyed European songbird with a bright orange-red face and breast, Britain's unofficial national bird. Aggressively territorial; the red breast is essentially a 'no trespassing' sign.
Drab brown European flycatcher with subtle streaks on its breast, sitting upright on an exposed perch and sallying out for flies. A late spring arrival in Europe after wintering in Africa.
Slim Eurasian songbird in black, white, and gray that pumps its long tail constantly as it walks. A cosmopolitan species with many regional plumage subspecies.
Sooty-gray European flycatcher of rocky country and cities, with the same flame-orange tail-shiver as the Common Redstart. Famously colonized bombed-out London after WWII.
Mount on the side of a brick or stone building, ideally with rough-textured surroundings. Black Redstarts prefer the urban-industrial aesthetic, quiet courtyards, factory walls, scrubby brownfield.
Glossy black European thrush with a bright yellow eyering and bill, the bird in 'Sing a Song of Sixpence.' A confident lawn forager and one of Europe's most prolific singers.
Mount in or near dense climber growth (ivy, honeysuckle, climbing rose). Blackbirds tolerate human activity well but want some screening from above and the side.
Stubby-tailed swallow with a blue-black back, white rump, and snow-white underparts that builds enclosed mud-cup nests under eaves. Highly colonial, nests are usually clustered together.
Ghostly pale owl with a heart-shaped face and the most sensitive hearing of any tested animal, can catch prey in total darkness. Doesn't hoot; delivers a chilling, drawn-out screech.
Floor
10" × 18"
Height
16"
Mount
12–30 ft
Wall
1.0"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
Squat, perpetually-frowning small owl of European farmland, Athena's owl, the symbol of Greek wisdom. Often hunts in daylight, perched on fence posts scanning for beetles and worms.
Floor
8" × 8"
Height
12"
Mount
8–20 ft
Wall
1.0"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilation
Often built as a horizontal tunnel (L-shaped). Consider a two-part print: tunnel + nesting chamber.
Jewel-toned Eurasian kingfisher with an electric-blue back and chestnut underparts that flash along streams. Dives from a perch to spear small fish, swallowing them headfirst back at the perch.
Floor
7" × 7"
Height
10"
Mount
1–3 ft
Wall
1.0"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
Drainage
Requires a long entrance tunnel (~12") angled slightly upward. Very specialist design, best as a multi-part horizontal tube.
Stunning cinnamon, black-and-white cavity nester with a huge erectile crown crest - instantly recognisable across Eurasia and Africa. Famous for its 'hoop-hoop-hoop' call (the source of the name) and for the conservation nest-box programmes that have rebuilt local populations from Switzerland to Spain.
Floor
8" × 8"
Height
12"
Mount
3–12 ft
Wall
0.75"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilationPredator guard
2.5" hole, 8"×8" floor, 12" interior. NO floor shavings - they nest on bare wood, sometimes with a foul-smelling secretion the female uses as predator deterrent. Don't be alarmed by the smell after fledging.
open farmland with scattered treesorchards and vineyardstraditional pasture and meadowwood-pasture and dehesavillage edges with old walls
Glossy-capped little tit of mature oak and beech woods. Nearly identical in plumage to Willow Tit, but separable by its sneeze-like 'pitchew' call and the small, neat black bib. The 'marsh' name is misleading - it's a dry-woodland bird.
The only tit in Europe with a spiky black-and-white crest, unmistakable once you've seen it. A pine-forest specialist with a soft trilling 'perurrrrr' call, found wherever mature Scots pine or Norway spruce stands have been left alone.
25 mm hole. Same body as Coal Tit / Blue Tit. Stuff the floor with 1" of wood shavings - they'll excavate the rest themselves to mimic a rotted stump cavity.
mature conifer forestsScots and Caledonian pinespruce plantations with standing deadwoodwooded gardens with old conifers
The chestnut-crowned, white-collared cousin of the House Sparrow - neat, both-sexes-identical, more rural and arboreal than its city-dwelling relative. UK Red-listed and dramatically declined across western Europe; still common across Asia, where it fills the urban niche House Sparrow occupies in Europe.
28 mm hole, identical body to the Blue Tit / Pied Flycatcher small box. They prefer COLONIAL nesting - install boxes in groups of 3–6 spaced 5–10 m apart on the same row of trees or wall.
traditional farmland with hedgerowsvillage edges and orchardswood-pasture and copsesriverbank tree lines
A cryptically barked little woodpecker that breaks every rule of the family - it doesn't drill, it uses cavities, it eats almost nothing but ants, and when threatened it twists its neck in slow snake-like coils that gave the species its name. A vanished British breeder, a thriving central-European migrant, and one of the most-overlooked nest-box species in Europe.
32 mm hole, 5"×5" floor, 10" interior - slightly deeper than the tit boxes to accommodate the larger clutches (7–12 eggs). Mount 2–4 m up on a mature fruit tree or sun-warmed wall facing east. Don't pack the floor - they nest directly on the wood.
traditional orchards and vineyardswood-pasture with mature treesopen broadleaf woodland edgesvillage gardens with old fruit treesant-rich short pasture
Stunning cinnamon, black-and-white cavity nester with a huge erectile crown crest - instantly recognisable across Eurasia and Africa. Famous for its 'hoop-hoop-hoop' call (the source of the name) and for the conservation nest-box programmes that have rebuilt local populations from Switzerland to Spain.
Floor
8" × 8"
Height
12"
Mount
3–12 ft
Wall
0.75"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilationPredator guard
2.5" hole, 8"×8" floor, 12" interior. NO floor shavings - they nest on bare wood, sometimes with a foul-smelling secretion the female uses as predator deterrent. Don't be alarmed by the smell after fledging.
open farmland with scattered treesorchards and vineyardstraditional pasture and meadowwood-pasture and dehesavillage edges with old walls
Tiny European songbird with a sky-blue cap, bright yellow underparts, and a bouncy disposition at garden feeders. Famous in the UK for the mid-century habit of pecking through milk-bottle foil caps.
Eurasia's smallest tit - a tiny conifer specialist with a black cap, white cheeks, and a diagnostic white stripe running down the back of the neck. Weighs about as much as a US penny.
Eurasia's largest tit, easily told by the bold black stripe down its yellow belly. The width of the male's stripe correlates with social dominance, a tiny billboard for status.
Slate-blue-backed nuthatch of European woodlands that walks head-down on tree trunks like its American cousins. Plasters mud around its nest hole to narrow the entrance to its preferred size.
Crisp black-and-white European flycatcher that breeds in deciduous woodland and famously favors well-positioned nest boxes. One of the most-studied songbirds in evolutionary biology.
Glossy-capped little tit of mature oak and beech woods. Nearly identical in plumage to Willow Tit, but separable by its sneeze-like 'pitchew' call and the small, neat black bib. The 'marsh' name is misleading - it's a dry-woodland bird.
The only tit in Europe with a spiky black-and-white crest, unmistakable once you've seen it. A pine-forest specialist with a soft trilling 'perurrrrr' call, found wherever mature Scots pine or Norway spruce stands have been left alone.
25 mm hole. Same body as Coal Tit / Blue Tit. Stuff the floor with 1" of wood shavings - they'll excavate the rest themselves to mimic a rotted stump cavity.
mature conifer forestsScots and Caledonian pinespruce plantations with standing deadwoodwooded gardens with old conifers
Striking black-and-white European flycatcher of mature oak woodland - the male's bold white collar and broad white forehead separate him from his cousin the Pied Flycatcher. A long-distance migrant from Africa that famously favours nest boxes and is the workhorse study species of European behavioural ecology.
The chestnut-crowned, white-collared cousin of the House Sparrow - neat, both-sexes-identical, more rural and arboreal than its city-dwelling relative. UK Red-listed and dramatically declined across western Europe; still common across Asia, where it fills the urban niche House Sparrow occupies in Europe.
28 mm hole, identical body to the Blue Tit / Pied Flycatcher small box. They prefer COLONIAL nesting - install boxes in groups of 3–6 spaced 5–10 m apart on the same row of trees or wall.
traditional farmland with hedgerowsvillage edges and orchardswood-pasture and copsesriverbank tree lines
Iridescent, dagger-billed mimic introduced to North America from Europe, now one of the most abundant birds on the continent. Forms massive synchronized aerial flocks, murmurations, at dusk.
A cryptically barked little woodpecker that breaks every rule of the family - it doesn't drill, it uses cavities, it eats almost nothing but ants, and when threatened it twists its neck in slow snake-like coils that gave the species its name. A vanished British breeder, a thriving central-European migrant, and one of the most-overlooked nest-box species in Europe.
32 mm hole, 5"×5" floor, 10" interior - slightly deeper than the tit boxes to accommodate the larger clutches (7–12 eggs). Mount 2–4 m up on a mature fruit tree or sun-warmed wall facing east. Don't pack the floor - they nest directly on the wood.
traditional orchards and vineyardswood-pasture with mature treesopen broadleaf woodland edgesvillage gardens with old fruit treesant-rich short pasture
Open-Front Shelf
Open-front nesting shelf, no entrance hole
Worldwide swallow with a deeply forked tail and rich blue-and-orange plumage, almost always nesting under human-made structures now. Builds cup nests from mouthfuls of mud pellets and grass.
Plump, big-eyed European songbird with a bright orange-red face and breast, Britain's unofficial national bird. Aggressively territorial; the red breast is essentially a 'no trespassing' sign.
Drab brown European flycatcher with subtle streaks on its breast, sitting upright on an exposed perch and sallying out for flies. A late spring arrival in Europe after wintering in Africa.
Slim Eurasian songbird in black, white, and gray that pumps its long tail constantly as it walks. A cosmopolitan species with many regional plumage subspecies.
Sooty-gray European flycatcher of rocky country and cities, with the same flame-orange tail-shiver as the Common Redstart. Famously colonized bombed-out London after WWII.
Mount on the side of a brick or stone building, ideally with rough-textured surroundings. Black Redstarts prefer the urban-industrial aesthetic, quiet courtyards, factory walls, scrubby brownfield.
Glossy black European thrush with a bright yellow eyering and bill, the bird in 'Sing a Song of Sixpence.' A confident lawn forager and one of Europe's most prolific singers.
Mount in or near dense climber growth (ivy, honeysuckle, climbing rose). Blackbirds tolerate human activity well but want some screening from above and the side.
Stubby-tailed swallow with a blue-black back, white rump, and snow-white underparts that builds enclosed mud-cup nests under eaves. Highly colonial, nests are usually clustered together.
Tiny European flycatcher with a Robin-like male - sooty grey-brown back, soft orange throat patch, and a constantly twitching white-edged tail. Breeds in mature deciduous forest of central and eastern Europe; winters thousands of miles away on the Indian subcontinent.
Ghostly pale owl with a heart-shaped face and the most sensitive hearing of any tested animal, can catch prey in total darkness. Doesn't hoot; delivers a chilling, drawn-out screech.
Floor
10" × 18"
Height
16"
Mount
12–30 ft
Wall
1.0"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
Squat, perpetually-frowning small owl of European farmland, Athena's owl, the symbol of Greek wisdom. Often hunts in daylight, perched on fence posts scanning for beetles and worms.
Floor
8" × 8"
Height
12"
Mount
8–20 ft
Wall
1.0"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilation
Often built as a horizontal tunnel (L-shaped). Consider a two-part print: tunnel + nesting chamber.
Stocky, large-headed European woodland owl whose classic 'twit-twoo' is actually a duet between a female ('twit') and a male ('twoo'). Strictly nocturnal and fiercely territorial.
Floor
10" × 10"
Height
18"
Mount
10–25 ft
Wall
1.0"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
Ventilation
Large chimney-style box. Multi-part print required. Add rough interior texture for owlets climbing out.
Jewel-toned Eurasian kingfisher with an electric-blue back and chestnut underparts that flash along streams. Dives from a perch to spear small fish, swallowing them headfirst back at the perch.
Floor
7" × 7"
Height
10"
Mount
1–3 ft
Wall
1.0"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
Drainage
Requires a long entrance tunnel (~12") angled slightly upward. Very specialist design, best as a multi-part horizontal tube.
Stunning cinnamon, black-and-white cavity nester with a huge erectile crown crest - instantly recognisable across Eurasia and Africa. Famous for its 'hoop-hoop-hoop' call (the source of the name) and for the conservation nest-box programmes that have rebuilt local populations from Switzerland to Spain.
Floor
8" × 8"
Height
12"
Mount
3–12 ft
Wall
0.75"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilationPredator guard
2.5" hole, 8"×8" floor, 12" interior. NO floor shavings - they nest on bare wood, sometimes with a foul-smelling secretion the female uses as predator deterrent. Don't be alarmed by the smell after fledging.
open farmland with scattered treesorchards and vineyardstraditional pasture and meadowwood-pasture and dehesavillage edges with old walls
Glossy-capped little tit of mature oak and beech woods. Nearly identical in plumage to Willow Tit, but separable by its sneeze-like 'pitchew' call and the small, neat black bib. The 'marsh' name is misleading - it's a dry-woodland bird.
The only tit in Europe with a spiky black-and-white crest, unmistakable once you've seen it. A pine-forest specialist with a soft trilling 'perurrrrr' call, found wherever mature Scots pine or Norway spruce stands have been left alone.
25 mm hole. Same body as Coal Tit / Blue Tit. Stuff the floor with 1" of wood shavings - they'll excavate the rest themselves to mimic a rotted stump cavity.
mature conifer forestsScots and Caledonian pinespruce plantations with standing deadwoodwooded gardens with old conifers
Striking black-and-white European flycatcher of mature oak woodland - the male's bold white collar and broad white forehead separate him from his cousin the Pied Flycatcher. A long-distance migrant from Africa that famously favours nest boxes and is the workhorse study species of European behavioural ecology.
The chestnut-crowned, white-collared cousin of the House Sparrow - neat, both-sexes-identical, more rural and arboreal than its city-dwelling relative. UK Red-listed and dramatically declined across western Europe; still common across Asia, where it fills the urban niche House Sparrow occupies in Europe.
28 mm hole, identical body to the Blue Tit / Pied Flycatcher small box. They prefer COLONIAL nesting - install boxes in groups of 3–6 spaced 5–10 m apart on the same row of trees or wall.
traditional farmland with hedgerowsvillage edges and orchardswood-pasture and copsesriverbank tree lines
A cryptically barked little woodpecker that breaks every rule of the family - it doesn't drill, it uses cavities, it eats almost nothing but ants, and when threatened it twists its neck in slow snake-like coils that gave the species its name. A vanished British breeder, a thriving central-European migrant, and one of the most-overlooked nest-box species in Europe.
32 mm hole, 5"×5" floor, 10" interior - slightly deeper than the tit boxes to accommodate the larger clutches (7–12 eggs). Mount 2–4 m up on a mature fruit tree or sun-warmed wall facing east. Don't pack the floor - they nest directly on the wood.
traditional orchards and vineyardswood-pasture with mature treesopen broadleaf woodland edgesvillage gardens with old fruit treesant-rich short pasture
Open-Front Shelf
Open-front nesting shelf, no entrance hole
Tiny European flycatcher with a Robin-like male - sooty grey-brown back, soft orange throat patch, and a constantly twitching white-edged tail. Breeds in mature deciduous forest of central and eastern Europe; winters thousands of miles away on the Indian subcontinent.
Stunning cinnamon, black-and-white cavity nester with a huge erectile crown crest - instantly recognisable across Eurasia and Africa. Famous for its 'hoop-hoop-hoop' call (the source of the name) and for the conservation nest-box programmes that have rebuilt local populations from Switzerland to Spain.
Floor
8" × 8"
Height
12"
Mount
3–12 ft
Wall
0.75"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilationPredator guard
2.5" hole, 8"×8" floor, 12" interior. NO floor shavings - they nest on bare wood, sometimes with a foul-smelling secretion the female uses as predator deterrent. Don't be alarmed by the smell after fledging.
open farmland with scattered treesorchards and vineyardstraditional pasture and meadowwood-pasture and dehesavillage edges with old walls
Tiny European songbird with a sky-blue cap, bright yellow underparts, and a bouncy disposition at garden feeders. Famous in the UK for the mid-century habit of pecking through milk-bottle foil caps.
Eurasia's smallest tit - a tiny conifer specialist with a black cap, white cheeks, and a diagnostic white stripe running down the back of the neck. Weighs about as much as a US penny.
Eurasia's largest tit, easily told by the bold black stripe down its yellow belly. The width of the male's stripe correlates with social dominance, a tiny billboard for status.
Slate-blue-backed nuthatch of European woodlands that walks head-down on tree trunks like its American cousins. Plasters mud around its nest hole to narrow the entrance to its preferred size.
Crisp black-and-white European flycatcher that breeds in deciduous woodland and famously favors well-positioned nest boxes. One of the most-studied songbirds in evolutionary biology.
Glossy-capped little tit of mature oak and beech woods. Nearly identical in plumage to Willow Tit, but separable by its sneeze-like 'pitchew' call and the small, neat black bib. The 'marsh' name is misleading - it's a dry-woodland bird.
The only tit in Europe with a spiky black-and-white crest, unmistakable once you've seen it. A pine-forest specialist with a soft trilling 'perurrrrr' call, found wherever mature Scots pine or Norway spruce stands have been left alone.
25 mm hole. Same body as Coal Tit / Blue Tit. Stuff the floor with 1" of wood shavings - they'll excavate the rest themselves to mimic a rotted stump cavity.
mature conifer forestsScots and Caledonian pinespruce plantations with standing deadwoodwooded gardens with old conifers
The chestnut-crowned, white-collared cousin of the House Sparrow - neat, both-sexes-identical, more rural and arboreal than its city-dwelling relative. UK Red-listed and dramatically declined across western Europe; still common across Asia, where it fills the urban niche House Sparrow occupies in Europe.
28 mm hole, identical body to the Blue Tit / Pied Flycatcher small box. They prefer COLONIAL nesting - install boxes in groups of 3–6 spaced 5–10 m apart on the same row of trees or wall.
traditional farmland with hedgerowsvillage edges and orchardswood-pasture and copsesriverbank tree lines
The most boldly-marked European sparrow - males have a chestnut crown, white cheeks, and a heavily streaked black-and-cream underparts that no other sparrow approaches. A colonial Mediterranean and North African farmland bird that builds huge communal stick nests in tree canopies, and the parent species (with House Sparrow) of the stabilised hybrid Italian Sparrow.
32 mm hole, 5"×5" floor. Mount in groups of 4+ along the same wall or fence - they prospect for sites with visible neighbours. Will also fill the side-cavities of large stick nests (storks, herons), so don't be surprised if a colony forms in a less-obvious spot nearby.
Mediterranean farmland with hedgerowsriver valleys with mature treesvillage edges and old buildingsolive groves and vineyardsstick-nests of larger birds
Iridescent, dagger-billed mimic introduced to North America from Europe, now one of the most abundant birds on the continent. Forms massive synchronized aerial flocks, murmurations, at dusk.
A cryptically barked little woodpecker that breaks every rule of the family - it doesn't drill, it uses cavities, it eats almost nothing but ants, and when threatened it twists its neck in slow snake-like coils that gave the species its name. A vanished British breeder, a thriving central-European migrant, and one of the most-overlooked nest-box species in Europe.
32 mm hole, 5"×5" floor, 10" interior - slightly deeper than the tit boxes to accommodate the larger clutches (7–12 eggs). Mount 2–4 m up on a mature fruit tree or sun-warmed wall facing east. Don't pack the floor - they nest directly on the wood.
traditional orchards and vineyardswood-pasture with mature treesopen broadleaf woodland edgesvillage gardens with old fruit treesant-rich short pasture
Open-Front Shelf
Open-front nesting shelf, no entrance hole
Worldwide swallow with a deeply forked tail and rich blue-and-orange plumage, almost always nesting under human-made structures now. Builds cup nests from mouthfuls of mud pellets and grass.
Plump, big-eyed European songbird with a bright orange-red face and breast, Britain's unofficial national bird. Aggressively territorial; the red breast is essentially a 'no trespassing' sign.
Drab brown European flycatcher with subtle streaks on its breast, sitting upright on an exposed perch and sallying out for flies. A late spring arrival in Europe after wintering in Africa.
Slim Eurasian songbird in black, white, and gray that pumps its long tail constantly as it walks. A cosmopolitan species with many regional plumage subspecies.
Sooty-gray European flycatcher of rocky country and cities, with the same flame-orange tail-shiver as the Common Redstart. Famously colonized bombed-out London after WWII.
Mount on the side of a brick or stone building, ideally with rough-textured surroundings. Black Redstarts prefer the urban-industrial aesthetic, quiet courtyards, factory walls, scrubby brownfield.
Glossy black European thrush with a bright yellow eyering and bill, the bird in 'Sing a Song of Sixpence.' A confident lawn forager and one of Europe's most prolific singers.
Mount in or near dense climber growth (ivy, honeysuckle, climbing rose). Blackbirds tolerate human activity well but want some screening from above and the side.
Stubby-tailed swallow with a blue-black back, white rump, and snow-white underparts that builds enclosed mud-cup nests under eaves. Highly colonial, nests are usually clustered together.
Sleek warm-rust-rumped swallow with a deeply forked tail, range spanning southern Europe through Asia and Africa. Builds enclosed mud nests with a long entrance tunnel.
Ghostly pale owl with a heart-shaped face and the most sensitive hearing of any tested animal, can catch prey in total darkness. Doesn't hoot; delivers a chilling, drawn-out screech.
Floor
10" × 18"
Height
16"
Mount
12–30 ft
Wall
1.0"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
Squat, perpetually-frowning small owl of European farmland, Athena's owl, the symbol of Greek wisdom. Often hunts in daylight, perched on fence posts scanning for beetles and worms.
Floor
8" × 8"
Height
12"
Mount
8–20 ft
Wall
1.0"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilation
Often built as a horizontal tunnel (L-shaped). Consider a two-part print: tunnel + nesting chamber.
Stocky, large-headed European woodland owl whose classic 'twit-twoo' is actually a duet between a female ('twit') and a male ('twoo'). Strictly nocturnal and fiercely territorial.
Floor
10" × 10"
Height
18"
Mount
10–25 ft
Wall
1.0"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
Ventilation
Large chimney-style box. Multi-part print required. Add rough interior texture for owlets climbing out.
Jewel-toned Eurasian kingfisher with an electric-blue back and chestnut underparts that flash along streams. Dives from a perch to spear small fish, swallowing them headfirst back at the perch.
Floor
7" × 7"
Height
10"
Mount
1–3 ft
Wall
1.0"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
Drainage
Requires a long entrance tunnel (~12") angled slightly upward. Very specialist design, best as a multi-part horizontal tube.
Stunning crow-sized cavity-nester in turquoise and chestnut - Europe's most exotic-looking native bird. Sallies for large insects from open perches, performs aerial 'rolling' courtship dives that give the family its name, and migrates 8 000 km each way to winter in southern Africa.
Floor
8" × 8"
Height
12"
Mount
10–25 ft
Wall
0.75"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilationPredator guard
70 mm hole, 8"×8" floor, 12" interior height. Heavy bird - wall thickness 0.75" is the minimum; predator guard around the hole strongly recommended. Pack 1–2" of wood shavings on the floor for the eggs.
open farmland with scattered old treesriver valleys with veteran oakssteppe and dehesa pasturelandMediterranean wood-pasture
Stunning cinnamon, black-and-white cavity nester with a huge erectile crown crest - instantly recognisable across Eurasia and Africa. Famous for its 'hoop-hoop-hoop' call (the source of the name) and for the conservation nest-box programmes that have rebuilt local populations from Switzerland to Spain.
Floor
8" × 8"
Height
12"
Mount
3–12 ft
Wall
0.75"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilationPredator guard
2.5" hole, 8"×8" floor, 12" interior. NO floor shavings - they nest on bare wood, sometimes with a foul-smelling secretion the female uses as predator deterrent. Don't be alarmed by the smell after fledging.
open farmland with scattered treesorchards and vineyardstraditional pasture and meadowwood-pasture and dehesavillage edges with old walls
Tiny European songbird with a sky-blue cap, bright yellow underparts, and a bouncy disposition at garden feeders. Famous in the UK for the mid-century habit of pecking through milk-bottle foil caps.
Eurasia's smallest tit - a tiny conifer specialist with a black cap, white cheeks, and a diagnostic white stripe running down the back of the neck. Weighs about as much as a US penny.
The only tit in Europe with a spiky black-and-white crest, unmistakable once you've seen it. A pine-forest specialist with a soft trilling 'perurrrrr' call, found wherever mature Scots pine or Norway spruce stands have been left alone.
25 mm hole. Same body as Coal Tit / Blue Tit. Stuff the floor with 1" of wood shavings - they'll excavate the rest themselves to mimic a rotted stump cavity.
mature conifer forestsScots and Caledonian pinespruce plantations with standing deadwoodwooded gardens with old conifers
The chestnut-crowned, white-collared cousin of the House Sparrow - neat, both-sexes-identical, more rural and arboreal than its city-dwelling relative. UK Red-listed and dramatically declined across western Europe; still common across Asia, where it fills the urban niche House Sparrow occupies in Europe.
28 mm hole, identical body to the Blue Tit / Pied Flycatcher small box. They prefer COLONIAL nesting - install boxes in groups of 3–6 spaced 5–10 m apart on the same row of trees or wall.
traditional farmland with hedgerowsvillage edges and orchardswood-pasture and copsesriverbank tree lines
The most boldly-marked European sparrow - males have a chestnut crown, white cheeks, and a heavily streaked black-and-cream underparts that no other sparrow approaches. A colonial Mediterranean and North African farmland bird that builds huge communal stick nests in tree canopies, and the parent species (with House Sparrow) of the stabilised hybrid Italian Sparrow.
32 mm hole, 5"×5" floor. Mount in groups of 4+ along the same wall or fence - they prospect for sites with visible neighbours. Will also fill the side-cavities of large stick nests (storks, herons), so don't be surprised if a colony forms in a less-obvious spot nearby.
Mediterranean farmland with hedgerowsriver valleys with mature treesvillage edges and old buildingsolive groves and vineyardsstick-nests of larger birds
A cryptically barked little woodpecker that breaks every rule of the family - it doesn't drill, it uses cavities, it eats almost nothing but ants, and when threatened it twists its neck in slow snake-like coils that gave the species its name. A vanished British breeder, a thriving central-European migrant, and one of the most-overlooked nest-box species in Europe.
32 mm hole, 5"×5" floor, 10" interior - slightly deeper than the tit boxes to accommodate the larger clutches (7–12 eggs). Mount 2–4 m up on a mature fruit tree or sun-warmed wall facing east. Don't pack the floor - they nest directly on the wood.
traditional orchards and vineyardswood-pasture with mature treesopen broadleaf woodland edgesvillage gardens with old fruit treesant-rich short pasture
Open-Front Shelf
Open-front nesting shelf, no entrance hole
Plump, big-eyed European songbird with a bright orange-red face and breast, Britain's unofficial national bird. Aggressively territorial; the red breast is essentially a 'no trespassing' sign.
Stunning crow-sized cavity-nester in turquoise and chestnut - Europe's most exotic-looking native bird. Sallies for large insects from open perches, performs aerial 'rolling' courtship dives that give the family its name, and migrates 8 000 km each way to winter in southern Africa.
Floor
8" × 8"
Height
12"
Mount
10–25 ft
Wall
0.75"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilationPredator guard
70 mm hole, 8"×8" floor, 12" interior height. Heavy bird - wall thickness 0.75" is the minimum; predator guard around the hole strongly recommended. Pack 1–2" of wood shavings on the floor for the eggs.
open farmland with scattered old treesriver valleys with veteran oakssteppe and dehesa pasturelandMediterranean wood-pasture
Stunning cinnamon, black-and-white cavity nester with a huge erectile crown crest - instantly recognisable across Eurasia and Africa. Famous for its 'hoop-hoop-hoop' call (the source of the name) and for the conservation nest-box programmes that have rebuilt local populations from Switzerland to Spain.
Floor
8" × 8"
Height
12"
Mount
3–12 ft
Wall
0.75"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilationPredator guard
2.5" hole, 8"×8" floor, 12" interior. NO floor shavings - they nest on bare wood, sometimes with a foul-smelling secretion the female uses as predator deterrent. Don't be alarmed by the smell after fledging.
open farmland with scattered treesorchards and vineyardstraditional pasture and meadowwood-pasture and dehesavillage edges with old walls
Tiny European songbird with a sky-blue cap, bright yellow underparts, and a bouncy disposition at garden feeders. Famous in the UK for the mid-century habit of pecking through milk-bottle foil caps.
Eurasia's smallest tit - a tiny conifer specialist with a black cap, white cheeks, and a diagnostic white stripe running down the back of the neck. Weighs about as much as a US penny.
Eurasia's largest tit, easily told by the bold black stripe down its yellow belly. The width of the male's stripe correlates with social dominance, a tiny billboard for status.
Slate-blue-backed nuthatch of European woodlands that walks head-down on tree trunks like its American cousins. Plasters mud around its nest hole to narrow the entrance to its preferred size.
Glossy-capped little tit of mature oak and beech woods. Nearly identical in plumage to Willow Tit, but separable by its sneeze-like 'pitchew' call and the small, neat black bib. The 'marsh' name is misleading - it's a dry-woodland bird.
The only tit in Europe with a spiky black-and-white crest, unmistakable once you've seen it. A pine-forest specialist with a soft trilling 'perurrrrr' call, found wherever mature Scots pine or Norway spruce stands have been left alone.
25 mm hole. Same body as Coal Tit / Blue Tit. Stuff the floor with 1" of wood shavings - they'll excavate the rest themselves to mimic a rotted stump cavity.
mature conifer forestsScots and Caledonian pinespruce plantations with standing deadwoodwooded gardens with old conifers
Striking black-and-white European flycatcher of mature oak woodland - the male's bold white collar and broad white forehead separate him from his cousin the Pied Flycatcher. A long-distance migrant from Africa that famously favours nest boxes and is the workhorse study species of European behavioural ecology.
The chestnut-crowned, white-collared cousin of the House Sparrow - neat, both-sexes-identical, more rural and arboreal than its city-dwelling relative. UK Red-listed and dramatically declined across western Europe; still common across Asia, where it fills the urban niche House Sparrow occupies in Europe.
28 mm hole, identical body to the Blue Tit / Pied Flycatcher small box. They prefer COLONIAL nesting - install boxes in groups of 3–6 spaced 5–10 m apart on the same row of trees or wall.
traditional farmland with hedgerowsvillage edges and orchardswood-pasture and copsesriverbank tree lines
The most boldly-marked European sparrow - males have a chestnut crown, white cheeks, and a heavily streaked black-and-cream underparts that no other sparrow approaches. A colonial Mediterranean and North African farmland bird that builds huge communal stick nests in tree canopies, and the parent species (with House Sparrow) of the stabilised hybrid Italian Sparrow.
32 mm hole, 5"×5" floor. Mount in groups of 4+ along the same wall or fence - they prospect for sites with visible neighbours. Will also fill the side-cavities of large stick nests (storks, herons), so don't be surprised if a colony forms in a less-obvious spot nearby.
Mediterranean farmland with hedgerowsriver valleys with mature treesvillage edges and old buildingsolive groves and vineyardsstick-nests of larger birds
Iridescent, dagger-billed mimic introduced to North America from Europe, now one of the most abundant birds on the continent. Forms massive synchronized aerial flocks, murmurations, at dusk.
A cryptically barked little woodpecker that breaks every rule of the family - it doesn't drill, it uses cavities, it eats almost nothing but ants, and when threatened it twists its neck in slow snake-like coils that gave the species its name. A vanished British breeder, a thriving central-European migrant, and one of the most-overlooked nest-box species in Europe.
32 mm hole, 5"×5" floor, 10" interior - slightly deeper than the tit boxes to accommodate the larger clutches (7–12 eggs). Mount 2–4 m up on a mature fruit tree or sun-warmed wall facing east. Don't pack the floor - they nest directly on the wood.
traditional orchards and vineyardswood-pasture with mature treesopen broadleaf woodland edgesvillage gardens with old fruit treesant-rich short pasture
Open-Front Shelf
Open-front nesting shelf, no entrance hole
Worldwide swallow with a deeply forked tail and rich blue-and-orange plumage, almost always nesting under human-made structures now. Builds cup nests from mouthfuls of mud pellets and grass.
Plump, big-eyed European songbird with a bright orange-red face and breast, Britain's unofficial national bird. Aggressively territorial; the red breast is essentially a 'no trespassing' sign.
Drab brown European flycatcher with subtle streaks on its breast, sitting upright on an exposed perch and sallying out for flies. A late spring arrival in Europe after wintering in Africa.
Slim Eurasian songbird in black, white, and gray that pumps its long tail constantly as it walks. A cosmopolitan species with many regional plumage subspecies.
Sooty-gray European flycatcher of rocky country and cities, with the same flame-orange tail-shiver as the Common Redstart. Famously colonized bombed-out London after WWII.
Mount on the side of a brick or stone building, ideally with rough-textured surroundings. Black Redstarts prefer the urban-industrial aesthetic, quiet courtyards, factory walls, scrubby brownfield.
Glossy black European thrush with a bright yellow eyering and bill, the bird in 'Sing a Song of Sixpence.' A confident lawn forager and one of Europe's most prolific singers.
Mount in or near dense climber growth (ivy, honeysuckle, climbing rose). Blackbirds tolerate human activity well but want some screening from above and the side.
Stubby-tailed swallow with a blue-black back, white rump, and snow-white underparts that builds enclosed mud-cup nests under eaves. Highly colonial, nests are usually clustered together.
Sleek warm-rust-rumped swallow with a deeply forked tail, range spanning southern Europe through Asia and Africa. Builds enclosed mud nests with a long entrance tunnel.
Ghostly pale owl with a heart-shaped face and the most sensitive hearing of any tested animal, can catch prey in total darkness. Doesn't hoot; delivers a chilling, drawn-out screech.
Floor
10" × 18"
Height
16"
Mount
12–30 ft
Wall
1.0"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
Squat, perpetually-frowning small owl of European farmland, Athena's owl, the symbol of Greek wisdom. Often hunts in daylight, perched on fence posts scanning for beetles and worms.
Floor
8" × 8"
Height
12"
Mount
8–20 ft
Wall
1.0"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilation
Often built as a horizontal tunnel (L-shaped). Consider a two-part print: tunnel + nesting chamber.
Stocky, large-headed European woodland owl whose classic 'twit-twoo' is actually a duet between a female ('twit') and a male ('twoo'). Strictly nocturnal and fiercely territorial.
Floor
10" × 10"
Height
18"
Mount
10–25 ft
Wall
1.0"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
Ventilation
Large chimney-style box. Multi-part print required. Add rough interior texture for owlets climbing out.
Jewel-toned Eurasian kingfisher with an electric-blue back and chestnut underparts that flash along streams. Dives from a perch to spear small fish, swallowing them headfirst back at the perch.
Floor
7" × 7"
Height
10"
Mount
1–3 ft
Wall
1.0"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
Drainage
Requires a long entrance tunnel (~12") angled slightly upward. Very specialist design, best as a multi-part horizontal tube.
Stunning crow-sized cavity-nester in turquoise and chestnut - Europe's most exotic-looking native bird. Sallies for large insects from open perches, performs aerial 'rolling' courtship dives that give the family its name, and migrates 8 000 km each way to winter in southern Africa.
Floor
8" × 8"
Height
12"
Mount
10–25 ft
Wall
0.75"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilationPredator guard
70 mm hole, 8"×8" floor, 12" interior height. Heavy bird - wall thickness 0.75" is the minimum; predator guard around the hole strongly recommended. Pack 1–2" of wood shavings on the floor for the eggs.
open farmland with scattered old treesriver valleys with veteran oakssteppe and dehesa pasturelandMediterranean wood-pasture
Stunning cinnamon, black-and-white cavity nester with a huge erectile crown crest - instantly recognisable across Eurasia and Africa. Famous for its 'hoop-hoop-hoop' call (the source of the name) and for the conservation nest-box programmes that have rebuilt local populations from Switzerland to Spain.
Floor
8" × 8"
Height
12"
Mount
3–12 ft
Wall
0.75"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilationPredator guard
2.5" hole, 8"×8" floor, 12" interior. NO floor shavings - they nest on bare wood, sometimes with a foul-smelling secretion the female uses as predator deterrent. Don't be alarmed by the smell after fledging.
open farmland with scattered treesorchards and vineyardstraditional pasture and meadowwood-pasture and dehesavillage edges with old walls
The most boldly-marked European sparrow - males have a chestnut crown, white cheeks, and a heavily streaked black-and-cream underparts that no other sparrow approaches. A colonial Mediterranean and North African farmland bird that builds huge communal stick nests in tree canopies, and the parent species (with House Sparrow) of the stabilised hybrid Italian Sparrow.
32 mm hole, 5"×5" floor. Mount in groups of 4+ along the same wall or fence - they prospect for sites with visible neighbours. Will also fill the side-cavities of large stick nests (storks, herons), so don't be surprised if a colony forms in a less-obvious spot nearby.
Mediterranean farmland with hedgerowsriver valleys with mature treesvillage edges and old buildingsolive groves and vineyardsstick-nests of larger birds
Stunning cinnamon, black-and-white cavity nester with a huge erectile crown crest - instantly recognisable across Eurasia and Africa. Famous for its 'hoop-hoop-hoop' call (the source of the name) and for the conservation nest-box programmes that have rebuilt local populations from Switzerland to Spain.
Floor
8" × 8"
Height
12"
Mount
3–12 ft
Wall
0.75"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilationPredator guard
2.5" hole, 8"×8" floor, 12" interior. NO floor shavings - they nest on bare wood, sometimes with a foul-smelling secretion the female uses as predator deterrent. Don't be alarmed by the smell after fledging.
open farmland with scattered treesorchards and vineyardstraditional pasture and meadowwood-pasture and dehesavillage edges with old walls
The only tit in Europe with a spiky black-and-white crest, unmistakable once you've seen it. A pine-forest specialist with a soft trilling 'perurrrrr' call, found wherever mature Scots pine or Norway spruce stands have been left alone.
25 mm hole. Same body as Coal Tit / Blue Tit. Stuff the floor with 1" of wood shavings - they'll excavate the rest themselves to mimic a rotted stump cavity.
mature conifer forestsScots and Caledonian pinespruce plantations with standing deadwoodwooded gardens with old conifers
The biggest tit in Europe and the most retiring - a Marsh-Tit-shaped bird half again as large, in subtle pewter, brown, and chalky white. Lives in dry old oak and rocky hillside woodland from the Balkans to the Levant. Rarely seen at feeders; far more likely heard, with a buzzy, scolding 'che-che-cherrrr'.
Striking black-and-white European flycatcher of mature oak woodland - the male's bold white collar and broad white forehead separate him from his cousin the Pied Flycatcher. A long-distance migrant from Africa that famously favours nest boxes and is the workhorse study species of European behavioural ecology.
The chestnut-crowned, white-collared cousin of the House Sparrow - neat, both-sexes-identical, more rural and arboreal than its city-dwelling relative. UK Red-listed and dramatically declined across western Europe; still common across Asia, where it fills the urban niche House Sparrow occupies in Europe.
28 mm hole, identical body to the Blue Tit / Pied Flycatcher small box. They prefer COLONIAL nesting - install boxes in groups of 3–6 spaced 5–10 m apart on the same row of trees or wall.
traditional farmland with hedgerowsvillage edges and orchardswood-pasture and copsesriverbank tree lines
The most boldly-marked European sparrow - males have a chestnut crown, white cheeks, and a heavily streaked black-and-cream underparts that no other sparrow approaches. A colonial Mediterranean and North African farmland bird that builds huge communal stick nests in tree canopies, and the parent species (with House Sparrow) of the stabilised hybrid Italian Sparrow.
32 mm hole, 5"×5" floor. Mount in groups of 4+ along the same wall or fence - they prospect for sites with visible neighbours. Will also fill the side-cavities of large stick nests (storks, herons), so don't be surprised if a colony forms in a less-obvious spot nearby.
Mediterranean farmland with hedgerowsriver valleys with mature treesvillage edges and old buildingsolive groves and vineyardsstick-nests of larger birds
A cryptically barked little woodpecker that breaks every rule of the family - it doesn't drill, it uses cavities, it eats almost nothing but ants, and when threatened it twists its neck in slow snake-like coils that gave the species its name. A vanished British breeder, a thriving central-European migrant, and one of the most-overlooked nest-box species in Europe.
32 mm hole, 5"×5" floor, 10" interior - slightly deeper than the tit boxes to accommodate the larger clutches (7–12 eggs). Mount 2–4 m up on a mature fruit tree or sun-warmed wall facing east. Don't pack the floor - they nest directly on the wood.
traditional orchards and vineyardswood-pasture with mature treesopen broadleaf woodland edgesvillage gardens with old fruit treesant-rich short pasture
Stunning crow-sized cavity-nester in turquoise and chestnut - Europe's most exotic-looking native bird. Sallies for large insects from open perches, performs aerial 'rolling' courtship dives that give the family its name, and migrates 8 000 km each way to winter in southern Africa.
Floor
8" × 8"
Height
12"
Mount
10–25 ft
Wall
0.75"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilationPredator guard
70 mm hole, 8"×8" floor, 12" interior height. Heavy bird - wall thickness 0.75" is the minimum; predator guard around the hole strongly recommended. Pack 1–2" of wood shavings on the floor for the eggs.
open farmland with scattered old treesriver valleys with veteran oakssteppe and dehesa pasturelandMediterranean wood-pasture
Stunning cinnamon, black-and-white cavity nester with a huge erectile crown crest - instantly recognisable across Eurasia and Africa. Famous for its 'hoop-hoop-hoop' call (the source of the name) and for the conservation nest-box programmes that have rebuilt local populations from Switzerland to Spain.
Floor
8" × 8"
Height
12"
Mount
3–12 ft
Wall
0.75"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilationPredator guard
2.5" hole, 8"×8" floor, 12" interior. NO floor shavings - they nest on bare wood, sometimes with a foul-smelling secretion the female uses as predator deterrent. Don't be alarmed by the smell after fledging.
open farmland with scattered treesorchards and vineyardstraditional pasture and meadowwood-pasture and dehesavillage edges with old walls
The biggest tit in Europe and the most retiring - a Marsh-Tit-shaped bird half again as large, in subtle pewter, brown, and chalky white. Lives in dry old oak and rocky hillside woodland from the Balkans to the Levant. Rarely seen at feeders; far more likely heard, with a buzzy, scolding 'che-che-cherrrr'.
The most boldly-marked European sparrow - males have a chestnut crown, white cheeks, and a heavily streaked black-and-cream underparts that no other sparrow approaches. A colonial Mediterranean and North African farmland bird that builds huge communal stick nests in tree canopies, and the parent species (with House Sparrow) of the stabilised hybrid Italian Sparrow.
32 mm hole, 5"×5" floor. Mount in groups of 4+ along the same wall or fence - they prospect for sites with visible neighbours. Will also fill the side-cavities of large stick nests (storks, herons), so don't be surprised if a colony forms in a less-obvious spot nearby.
Mediterranean farmland with hedgerowsriver valleys with mature treesvillage edges and old buildingsolive groves and vineyardsstick-nests of larger birds
Stunning cinnamon, black-and-white cavity nester with a huge erectile crown crest - instantly recognisable across Eurasia and Africa. Famous for its 'hoop-hoop-hoop' call (the source of the name) and for the conservation nest-box programmes that have rebuilt local populations from Switzerland to Spain.
Floor
8" × 8"
Height
12"
Mount
3–12 ft
Wall
0.75"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilationPredator guard
2.5" hole, 8"×8" floor, 12" interior. NO floor shavings - they nest on bare wood, sometimes with a foul-smelling secretion the female uses as predator deterrent. Don't be alarmed by the smell after fledging.
open farmland with scattered treesorchards and vineyardstraditional pasture and meadowwood-pasture and dehesavillage edges with old walls
Tiny European songbird with a sky-blue cap, bright yellow underparts, and a bouncy disposition at garden feeders. Famous in the UK for the mid-century habit of pecking through milk-bottle foil caps.
Eurasia's smallest tit - a tiny conifer specialist with a black cap, white cheeks, and a diagnostic white stripe running down the back of the neck. Weighs about as much as a US penny.
Eurasia's largest tit, easily told by the bold black stripe down its yellow belly. The width of the male's stripe correlates with social dominance, a tiny billboard for status.
Glossy-capped little tit of mature oak and beech woods. Nearly identical in plumage to Willow Tit, but separable by its sneeze-like 'pitchew' call and the small, neat black bib. The 'marsh' name is misleading - it's a dry-woodland bird.
The only tit in Europe with a spiky black-and-white crest, unmistakable once you've seen it. A pine-forest specialist with a soft trilling 'perurrrrr' call, found wherever mature Scots pine or Norway spruce stands have been left alone.
25 mm hole. Same body as Coal Tit / Blue Tit. Stuff the floor with 1" of wood shavings - they'll excavate the rest themselves to mimic a rotted stump cavity.
mature conifer forestsScots and Caledonian pinespruce plantations with standing deadwoodwooded gardens with old conifers
The chestnut-crowned, white-collared cousin of the House Sparrow - neat, both-sexes-identical, more rural and arboreal than its city-dwelling relative. UK Red-listed and dramatically declined across western Europe; still common across Asia, where it fills the urban niche House Sparrow occupies in Europe.
28 mm hole, identical body to the Blue Tit / Pied Flycatcher small box. They prefer COLONIAL nesting - install boxes in groups of 3–6 spaced 5–10 m apart on the same row of trees or wall.
traditional farmland with hedgerowsvillage edges and orchardswood-pasture and copsesriverbank tree lines
A cryptically barked little woodpecker that breaks every rule of the family - it doesn't drill, it uses cavities, it eats almost nothing but ants, and when threatened it twists its neck in slow snake-like coils that gave the species its name. A vanished British breeder, a thriving central-European migrant, and one of the most-overlooked nest-box species in Europe.
32 mm hole, 5"×5" floor, 10" interior - slightly deeper than the tit boxes to accommodate the larger clutches (7–12 eggs). Mount 2–4 m up on a mature fruit tree or sun-warmed wall facing east. Don't pack the floor - they nest directly on the wood.
traditional orchards and vineyardswood-pasture with mature treesopen broadleaf woodland edgesvillage gardens with old fruit treesant-rich short pasture
Open-Front Shelf
Open-front nesting shelf, no entrance hole
Worldwide swallow with a deeply forked tail and rich blue-and-orange plumage, almost always nesting under human-made structures now. Builds cup nests from mouthfuls of mud pellets and grass.
Plump, big-eyed European songbird with a bright orange-red face and breast, Britain's unofficial national bird. Aggressively territorial; the red breast is essentially a 'no trespassing' sign.
Slim Eurasian songbird in black, white, and gray that pumps its long tail constantly as it walks. A cosmopolitan species with many regional plumage subspecies.
Glossy black European thrush with a bright yellow eyering and bill, the bird in 'Sing a Song of Sixpence.' A confident lawn forager and one of Europe's most prolific singers.
Mount in or near dense climber growth (ivy, honeysuckle, climbing rose). Blackbirds tolerate human activity well but want some screening from above and the side.
Tiny European songbird with a sky-blue cap, bright yellow underparts, and a bouncy disposition at garden feeders. Famous in the UK for the mid-century habit of pecking through milk-bottle foil caps.
Eurasia's smallest tit - a tiny conifer specialist with a black cap, white cheeks, and a diagnostic white stripe running down the back of the neck. Weighs about as much as a US penny.
Eurasia's largest tit, easily told by the bold black stripe down its yellow belly. The width of the male's stripe correlates with social dominance, a tiny billboard for status.
Slate-blue-backed nuthatch of European woodlands that walks head-down on tree trunks like its American cousins. Plasters mud around its nest hole to narrow the entrance to its preferred size.
Crisp black-and-white European flycatcher that breeds in deciduous woodland and famously favors well-positioned nest boxes. One of the most-studied songbirds in evolutionary biology.
Glossy-capped little tit of mature oak and beech woods. Nearly identical in plumage to Willow Tit, but separable by its sneeze-like 'pitchew' call and the small, neat black bib. The 'marsh' name is misleading - it's a dry-woodland bird.
The only tit in Europe with a spiky black-and-white crest, unmistakable once you've seen it. A pine-forest specialist with a soft trilling 'perurrrrr' call, found wherever mature Scots pine or Norway spruce stands have been left alone.
25 mm hole. Same body as Coal Tit / Blue Tit. Stuff the floor with 1" of wood shavings - they'll excavate the rest themselves to mimic a rotted stump cavity.
mature conifer forestsScots and Caledonian pinespruce plantations with standing deadwoodwooded gardens with old conifers
Striking black-and-white European flycatcher of mature oak woodland - the male's bold white collar and broad white forehead separate him from his cousin the Pied Flycatcher. A long-distance migrant from Africa that famously favours nest boxes and is the workhorse study species of European behavioural ecology.
The chestnut-crowned, white-collared cousin of the House Sparrow - neat, both-sexes-identical, more rural and arboreal than its city-dwelling relative. UK Red-listed and dramatically declined across western Europe; still common across Asia, where it fills the urban niche House Sparrow occupies in Europe.
28 mm hole, identical body to the Blue Tit / Pied Flycatcher small box. They prefer COLONIAL nesting - install boxes in groups of 3–6 spaced 5–10 m apart on the same row of trees or wall.
traditional farmland with hedgerowsvillage edges and orchardswood-pasture and copsesriverbank tree lines
Iridescent, dagger-billed mimic introduced to North America from Europe, now one of the most abundant birds on the continent. Forms massive synchronized aerial flocks, murmurations, at dusk.
A cryptically barked little woodpecker that breaks every rule of the family - it doesn't drill, it uses cavities, it eats almost nothing but ants, and when threatened it twists its neck in slow snake-like coils that gave the species its name. A vanished British breeder, a thriving central-European migrant, and one of the most-overlooked nest-box species in Europe.
32 mm hole, 5"×5" floor, 10" interior - slightly deeper than the tit boxes to accommodate the larger clutches (7–12 eggs). Mount 2–4 m up on a mature fruit tree or sun-warmed wall facing east. Don't pack the floor - they nest directly on the wood.
traditional orchards and vineyardswood-pasture with mature treesopen broadleaf woodland edgesvillage gardens with old fruit treesant-rich short pasture
Open-Front Shelf
Open-front nesting shelf, no entrance hole
Worldwide swallow with a deeply forked tail and rich blue-and-orange plumage, almost always nesting under human-made structures now. Builds cup nests from mouthfuls of mud pellets and grass.
Plump, big-eyed European songbird with a bright orange-red face and breast, Britain's unofficial national bird. Aggressively territorial; the red breast is essentially a 'no trespassing' sign.
Drab brown European flycatcher with subtle streaks on its breast, sitting upright on an exposed perch and sallying out for flies. A late spring arrival in Europe after wintering in Africa.
Slim Eurasian songbird in black, white, and gray that pumps its long tail constantly as it walks. A cosmopolitan species with many regional plumage subspecies.
Sooty-gray European flycatcher of rocky country and cities, with the same flame-orange tail-shiver as the Common Redstart. Famously colonized bombed-out London after WWII.
Mount on the side of a brick or stone building, ideally with rough-textured surroundings. Black Redstarts prefer the urban-industrial aesthetic, quiet courtyards, factory walls, scrubby brownfield.
Glossy black European thrush with a bright yellow eyering and bill, the bird in 'Sing a Song of Sixpence.' A confident lawn forager and one of Europe's most prolific singers.
Mount in or near dense climber growth (ivy, honeysuckle, climbing rose). Blackbirds tolerate human activity well but want some screening from above and the side.
Stubby-tailed swallow with a blue-black back, white rump, and snow-white underparts that builds enclosed mud-cup nests under eaves. Highly colonial, nests are usually clustered together.
Tiny European flycatcher with a Robin-like male - sooty grey-brown back, soft orange throat patch, and a constantly twitching white-edged tail. Breeds in mature deciduous forest of central and eastern Europe; winters thousands of miles away on the Indian subcontinent.
Stocky, large-headed European woodland owl whose classic 'twit-twoo' is actually a duet between a female ('twit') and a male ('twoo'). Strictly nocturnal and fiercely territorial.
Floor
10" × 10"
Height
18"
Mount
10–25 ft
Wall
1.0"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
Ventilation
Large chimney-style box. Multi-part print required. Add rough interior texture for owlets climbing out.
Jewel-toned Eurasian kingfisher with an electric-blue back and chestnut underparts that flash along streams. Dives from a perch to spear small fish, swallowing them headfirst back at the perch.
Floor
7" × 7"
Height
10"
Mount
1–3 ft
Wall
1.0"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
Drainage
Requires a long entrance tunnel (~12") angled slightly upward. Very specialist design, best as a multi-part horizontal tube.
Tiny European songbird with a sky-blue cap, bright yellow underparts, and a bouncy disposition at garden feeders. Famous in the UK for the mid-century habit of pecking through milk-bottle foil caps.
Eurasia's smallest tit - a tiny conifer specialist with a black cap, white cheeks, and a diagnostic white stripe running down the back of the neck. Weighs about as much as a US penny.
Eurasia's largest tit, easily told by the bold black stripe down its yellow belly. The width of the male's stripe correlates with social dominance, a tiny billboard for status.
Crisp black-and-white European flycatcher that breeds in deciduous woodland and famously favors well-positioned nest boxes. One of the most-studied songbirds in evolutionary biology.
The only tit in Europe with a spiky black-and-white crest, unmistakable once you've seen it. A pine-forest specialist with a soft trilling 'perurrrrr' call, found wherever mature Scots pine or Norway spruce stands have been left alone.
25 mm hole. Same body as Coal Tit / Blue Tit. Stuff the floor with 1" of wood shavings - they'll excavate the rest themselves to mimic a rotted stump cavity.
mature conifer forestsScots and Caledonian pinespruce plantations with standing deadwoodwooded gardens with old conifers
The chestnut-crowned, white-collared cousin of the House Sparrow - neat, both-sexes-identical, more rural and arboreal than its city-dwelling relative. UK Red-listed and dramatically declined across western Europe; still common across Asia, where it fills the urban niche House Sparrow occupies in Europe.
28 mm hole, identical body to the Blue Tit / Pied Flycatcher small box. They prefer COLONIAL nesting - install boxes in groups of 3–6 spaced 5–10 m apart on the same row of trees or wall.
traditional farmland with hedgerowsvillage edges and orchardswood-pasture and copsesriverbank tree lines
A cryptically barked little woodpecker that breaks every rule of the family - it doesn't drill, it uses cavities, it eats almost nothing but ants, and when threatened it twists its neck in slow snake-like coils that gave the species its name. A vanished British breeder, a thriving central-European migrant, and one of the most-overlooked nest-box species in Europe.
32 mm hole, 5"×5" floor, 10" interior - slightly deeper than the tit boxes to accommodate the larger clutches (7–12 eggs). Mount 2–4 m up on a mature fruit tree or sun-warmed wall facing east. Don't pack the floor - they nest directly on the wood.
traditional orchards and vineyardswood-pasture with mature treesopen broadleaf woodland edgesvillage gardens with old fruit treesant-rich short pasture
Open-Front Shelf
Open-front nesting shelf, no entrance hole
Worldwide swallow with a deeply forked tail and rich blue-and-orange plumage, almost always nesting under human-made structures now. Builds cup nests from mouthfuls of mud pellets and grass.
Plump, big-eyed European songbird with a bright orange-red face and breast, Britain's unofficial national bird. Aggressively territorial; the red breast is essentially a 'no trespassing' sign.
Slim Eurasian songbird in black, white, and gray that pumps its long tail constantly as it walks. A cosmopolitan species with many regional plumage subspecies.
Glossy black European thrush with a bright yellow eyering and bill, the bird in 'Sing a Song of Sixpence.' A confident lawn forager and one of Europe's most prolific singers.
Mount in or near dense climber growth (ivy, honeysuckle, climbing rose). Blackbirds tolerate human activity well but want some screening from above and the side.
Stubby-tailed swallow with a blue-black back, white rump, and snow-white underparts that builds enclosed mud-cup nests under eaves. Highly colonial, nests are usually clustered together.
Stocky, large-headed European woodland owl whose classic 'twit-twoo' is actually a duet between a female ('twit') and a male ('twoo'). Strictly nocturnal and fiercely territorial.
Floor
10" × 10"
Height
18"
Mount
10–25 ft
Wall
1.0"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
Ventilation
Large chimney-style box. Multi-part print required. Add rough interior texture for owlets climbing out.
Eurasia's smallest tit - a tiny conifer specialist with a black cap, white cheeks, and a diagnostic white stripe running down the back of the neck. Weighs about as much as a US penny.
Crisp black-and-white European flycatcher that breeds in deciduous woodland and famously favors well-positioned nest boxes. One of the most-studied songbirds in evolutionary biology.
The only tit in Europe with a spiky black-and-white crest, unmistakable once you've seen it. A pine-forest specialist with a soft trilling 'perurrrrr' call, found wherever mature Scots pine or Norway spruce stands have been left alone.
25 mm hole. Same body as Coal Tit / Blue Tit. Stuff the floor with 1" of wood shavings - they'll excavate the rest themselves to mimic a rotted stump cavity.
mature conifer forestsScots and Caledonian pinespruce plantations with standing deadwoodwooded gardens with old conifers
The chestnut-crowned, white-collared cousin of the House Sparrow - neat, both-sexes-identical, more rural and arboreal than its city-dwelling relative. UK Red-listed and dramatically declined across western Europe; still common across Asia, where it fills the urban niche House Sparrow occupies in Europe.
28 mm hole, identical body to the Blue Tit / Pied Flycatcher small box. They prefer COLONIAL nesting - install boxes in groups of 3–6 spaced 5–10 m apart on the same row of trees or wall.
traditional farmland with hedgerowsvillage edges and orchardswood-pasture and copsesriverbank tree lines
A cryptically barked little woodpecker that breaks every rule of the family - it doesn't drill, it uses cavities, it eats almost nothing but ants, and when threatened it twists its neck in slow snake-like coils that gave the species its name. A vanished British breeder, a thriving central-European migrant, and one of the most-overlooked nest-box species in Europe.
32 mm hole, 5"×5" floor, 10" interior - slightly deeper than the tit boxes to accommodate the larger clutches (7–12 eggs). Mount 2–4 m up on a mature fruit tree or sun-warmed wall facing east. Don't pack the floor - they nest directly on the wood.
traditional orchards and vineyardswood-pasture with mature treesopen broadleaf woodland edgesvillage gardens with old fruit treesant-rich short pasture
Open-Front Shelf
Open-front nesting shelf, no entrance hole
Tiny European flycatcher with a Robin-like male - sooty grey-brown back, soft orange throat patch, and a constantly twitching white-edged tail. Breeds in mature deciduous forest of central and eastern Europe; winters thousands of miles away on the Indian subcontinent.
Striking black-and-white European flycatcher of mature oak woodland - the male's bold white collar and broad white forehead separate him from his cousin the Pied Flycatcher. A long-distance migrant from Africa that famously favours nest boxes and is the workhorse study species of European behavioural ecology.
The chestnut-crowned, white-collared cousin of the House Sparrow - neat, both-sexes-identical, more rural and arboreal than its city-dwelling relative. UK Red-listed and dramatically declined across western Europe; still common across Asia, where it fills the urban niche House Sparrow occupies in Europe.
28 mm hole, identical body to the Blue Tit / Pied Flycatcher small box. They prefer COLONIAL nesting - install boxes in groups of 3–6 spaced 5–10 m apart on the same row of trees or wall.
traditional farmland with hedgerowsvillage edges and orchardswood-pasture and copsesriverbank tree lines
A cryptically barked little woodpecker that breaks every rule of the family - it doesn't drill, it uses cavities, it eats almost nothing but ants, and when threatened it twists its neck in slow snake-like coils that gave the species its name. A vanished British breeder, a thriving central-European migrant, and one of the most-overlooked nest-box species in Europe.
32 mm hole, 5"×5" floor, 10" interior - slightly deeper than the tit boxes to accommodate the larger clutches (7–12 eggs). Mount 2–4 m up on a mature fruit tree or sun-warmed wall facing east. Don't pack the floor - they nest directly on the wood.
traditional orchards and vineyardswood-pasture with mature treesopen broadleaf woodland edgesvillage gardens with old fruit treesant-rich short pasture
Open-Front Shelf
Open-front nesting shelf, no entrance hole
Tiny European flycatcher with a Robin-like male - sooty grey-brown back, soft orange throat patch, and a constantly twitching white-edged tail. Breeds in mature deciduous forest of central and eastern Europe; winters thousands of miles away on the Indian subcontinent.
Stunning crow-sized cavity-nester in turquoise and chestnut - Europe's most exotic-looking native bird. Sallies for large insects from open perches, performs aerial 'rolling' courtship dives that give the family its name, and migrates 8 000 km each way to winter in southern Africa.
Floor
8" × 8"
Height
12"
Mount
10–25 ft
Wall
0.75"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilationPredator guard
70 mm hole, 8"×8" floor, 12" interior height. Heavy bird - wall thickness 0.75" is the minimum; predator guard around the hole strongly recommended. Pack 1–2" of wood shavings on the floor for the eggs.
open farmland with scattered old treesriver valleys with veteran oakssteppe and dehesa pasturelandMediterranean wood-pasture
Stunning cinnamon, black-and-white cavity nester with a huge erectile crown crest - instantly recognisable across Eurasia and Africa. Famous for its 'hoop-hoop-hoop' call (the source of the name) and for the conservation nest-box programmes that have rebuilt local populations from Switzerland to Spain.
Floor
8" × 8"
Height
12"
Mount
3–12 ft
Wall
0.75"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilationPredator guard
2.5" hole, 8"×8" floor, 12" interior. NO floor shavings - they nest on bare wood, sometimes with a foul-smelling secretion the female uses as predator deterrent. Don't be alarmed by the smell after fledging.
open farmland with scattered treesorchards and vineyardstraditional pasture and meadowwood-pasture and dehesavillage edges with old walls
Striking black-and-white European flycatcher of mature oak woodland - the male's bold white collar and broad white forehead separate him from his cousin the Pied Flycatcher. A long-distance migrant from Africa that famously favours nest boxes and is the workhorse study species of European behavioural ecology.
The chestnut-crowned, white-collared cousin of the House Sparrow - neat, both-sexes-identical, more rural and arboreal than its city-dwelling relative. UK Red-listed and dramatically declined across western Europe; still common across Asia, where it fills the urban niche House Sparrow occupies in Europe.
28 mm hole, identical body to the Blue Tit / Pied Flycatcher small box. They prefer COLONIAL nesting - install boxes in groups of 3–6 spaced 5–10 m apart on the same row of trees or wall.
traditional farmland with hedgerowsvillage edges and orchardswood-pasture and copsesriverbank tree lines
A cryptically barked little woodpecker that breaks every rule of the family - it doesn't drill, it uses cavities, it eats almost nothing but ants, and when threatened it twists its neck in slow snake-like coils that gave the species its name. A vanished British breeder, a thriving central-European migrant, and one of the most-overlooked nest-box species in Europe.
32 mm hole, 5"×5" floor, 10" interior - slightly deeper than the tit boxes to accommodate the larger clutches (7–12 eggs). Mount 2–4 m up on a mature fruit tree or sun-warmed wall facing east. Don't pack the floor - they nest directly on the wood.
traditional orchards and vineyardswood-pasture with mature treesopen broadleaf woodland edgesvillage gardens with old fruit treesant-rich short pasture
Open-Front Shelf
Open-front nesting shelf, no entrance hole
Tiny European flycatcher with a Robin-like male - sooty grey-brown back, soft orange throat patch, and a constantly twitching white-edged tail. Breeds in mature deciduous forest of central and eastern Europe; winters thousands of miles away on the Indian subcontinent.
Stunning crow-sized cavity-nester in turquoise and chestnut - Europe's most exotic-looking native bird. Sallies for large insects from open perches, performs aerial 'rolling' courtship dives that give the family its name, and migrates 8 000 km each way to winter in southern Africa.
Floor
8" × 8"
Height
12"
Mount
10–25 ft
Wall
0.75"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilationPredator guard
70 mm hole, 8"×8" floor, 12" interior height. Heavy bird - wall thickness 0.75" is the minimum; predator guard around the hole strongly recommended. Pack 1–2" of wood shavings on the floor for the eggs.
open farmland with scattered old treesriver valleys with veteran oakssteppe and dehesa pasturelandMediterranean wood-pasture
Stunning cinnamon, black-and-white cavity nester with a huge erectile crown crest - instantly recognisable across Eurasia and Africa. Famous for its 'hoop-hoop-hoop' call (the source of the name) and for the conservation nest-box programmes that have rebuilt local populations from Switzerland to Spain.
Floor
8" × 8"
Height
12"
Mount
3–12 ft
Wall
0.75"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilationPredator guard
2.5" hole, 8"×8" floor, 12" interior. NO floor shavings - they nest on bare wood, sometimes with a foul-smelling secretion the female uses as predator deterrent. Don't be alarmed by the smell after fledging.
open farmland with scattered treesorchards and vineyardstraditional pasture and meadowwood-pasture and dehesavillage edges with old walls
Striking black-and-white European flycatcher of mature oak woodland - the male's bold white collar and broad white forehead separate him from his cousin the Pied Flycatcher. A long-distance migrant from Africa that famously favours nest boxes and is the workhorse study species of European behavioural ecology.
The chestnut-crowned, white-collared cousin of the House Sparrow - neat, both-sexes-identical, more rural and arboreal than its city-dwelling relative. UK Red-listed and dramatically declined across western Europe; still common across Asia, where it fills the urban niche House Sparrow occupies in Europe.
28 mm hole, identical body to the Blue Tit / Pied Flycatcher small box. They prefer COLONIAL nesting - install boxes in groups of 3–6 spaced 5–10 m apart on the same row of trees or wall.
traditional farmland with hedgerowsvillage edges and orchardswood-pasture and copsesriverbank tree lines
A cryptically barked little woodpecker that breaks every rule of the family - it doesn't drill, it uses cavities, it eats almost nothing but ants, and when threatened it twists its neck in slow snake-like coils that gave the species its name. A vanished British breeder, a thriving central-European migrant, and one of the most-overlooked nest-box species in Europe.
32 mm hole, 5"×5" floor, 10" interior - slightly deeper than the tit boxes to accommodate the larger clutches (7–12 eggs). Mount 2–4 m up on a mature fruit tree or sun-warmed wall facing east. Don't pack the floor - they nest directly on the wood.
traditional orchards and vineyardswood-pasture with mature treesopen broadleaf woodland edgesvillage gardens with old fruit treesant-rich short pasture
Open-Front Shelf
Open-front nesting shelf, no entrance hole
Tiny European flycatcher with a Robin-like male - sooty grey-brown back, soft orange throat patch, and a constantly twitching white-edged tail. Breeds in mature deciduous forest of central and eastern Europe; winters thousands of miles away on the Indian subcontinent.
Stunning crow-sized cavity-nester in turquoise and chestnut - Europe's most exotic-looking native bird. Sallies for large insects from open perches, performs aerial 'rolling' courtship dives that give the family its name, and migrates 8 000 km each way to winter in southern Africa.
Floor
8" × 8"
Height
12"
Mount
10–25 ft
Wall
0.75"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilationPredator guard
70 mm hole, 8"×8" floor, 12" interior height. Heavy bird - wall thickness 0.75" is the minimum; predator guard around the hole strongly recommended. Pack 1–2" of wood shavings on the floor for the eggs.
open farmland with scattered old treesriver valleys with veteran oakssteppe and dehesa pasturelandMediterranean wood-pasture
Stunning cinnamon, black-and-white cavity nester with a huge erectile crown crest - instantly recognisable across Eurasia and Africa. Famous for its 'hoop-hoop-hoop' call (the source of the name) and for the conservation nest-box programmes that have rebuilt local populations from Switzerland to Spain.
Floor
8" × 8"
Height
12"
Mount
3–12 ft
Wall
0.75"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilationPredator guard
2.5" hole, 8"×8" floor, 12" interior. NO floor shavings - they nest on bare wood, sometimes with a foul-smelling secretion the female uses as predator deterrent. Don't be alarmed by the smell after fledging.
open farmland with scattered treesorchards and vineyardstraditional pasture and meadowwood-pasture and dehesavillage edges with old walls
Tiny European songbird with a sky-blue cap, bright yellow underparts, and a bouncy disposition at garden feeders. Famous in the UK for the mid-century habit of pecking through milk-bottle foil caps.
Eurasia's smallest tit - a tiny conifer specialist with a black cap, white cheeks, and a diagnostic white stripe running down the back of the neck. Weighs about as much as a US penny.
Eurasia's largest tit, easily told by the bold black stripe down its yellow belly. The width of the male's stripe correlates with social dominance, a tiny billboard for status.
Slate-blue-backed nuthatch of European woodlands that walks head-down on tree trunks like its American cousins. Plasters mud around its nest hole to narrow the entrance to its preferred size.
Crisp black-and-white European flycatcher that breeds in deciduous woodland and famously favors well-positioned nest boxes. One of the most-studied songbirds in evolutionary biology.
Glossy-capped little tit of mature oak and beech woods. Nearly identical in plumage to Willow Tit, but separable by its sneeze-like 'pitchew' call and the small, neat black bib. The 'marsh' name is misleading - it's a dry-woodland bird.
The only tit in Europe with a spiky black-and-white crest, unmistakable once you've seen it. A pine-forest specialist with a soft trilling 'perurrrrr' call, found wherever mature Scots pine or Norway spruce stands have been left alone.
25 mm hole. Same body as Coal Tit / Blue Tit. Stuff the floor with 1" of wood shavings - they'll excavate the rest themselves to mimic a rotted stump cavity.
mature conifer forestsScots and Caledonian pinespruce plantations with standing deadwoodwooded gardens with old conifers
Striking black-and-white European flycatcher of mature oak woodland - the male's bold white collar and broad white forehead separate him from his cousin the Pied Flycatcher. A long-distance migrant from Africa that famously favours nest boxes and is the workhorse study species of European behavioural ecology.
The chestnut-crowned, white-collared cousin of the House Sparrow - neat, both-sexes-identical, more rural and arboreal than its city-dwelling relative. UK Red-listed and dramatically declined across western Europe; still common across Asia, where it fills the urban niche House Sparrow occupies in Europe.
28 mm hole, identical body to the Blue Tit / Pied Flycatcher small box. They prefer COLONIAL nesting - install boxes in groups of 3–6 spaced 5–10 m apart on the same row of trees or wall.
traditional farmland with hedgerowsvillage edges and orchardswood-pasture and copsesriverbank tree lines
Iridescent, dagger-billed mimic introduced to North America from Europe, now one of the most abundant birds on the continent. Forms massive synchronized aerial flocks, murmurations, at dusk.
A cryptically barked little woodpecker that breaks every rule of the family - it doesn't drill, it uses cavities, it eats almost nothing but ants, and when threatened it twists its neck in slow snake-like coils that gave the species its name. A vanished British breeder, a thriving central-European migrant, and one of the most-overlooked nest-box species in Europe.
32 mm hole, 5"×5" floor, 10" interior - slightly deeper than the tit boxes to accommodate the larger clutches (7–12 eggs). Mount 2–4 m up on a mature fruit tree or sun-warmed wall facing east. Don't pack the floor - they nest directly on the wood.
traditional orchards and vineyardswood-pasture with mature treesopen broadleaf woodland edgesvillage gardens with old fruit treesant-rich short pasture
Open-Front Shelf
Open-front nesting shelf, no entrance hole
Worldwide swallow with a deeply forked tail and rich blue-and-orange plumage, almost always nesting under human-made structures now. Builds cup nests from mouthfuls of mud pellets and grass.
Plump, big-eyed European songbird with a bright orange-red face and breast, Britain's unofficial national bird. Aggressively territorial; the red breast is essentially a 'no trespassing' sign.
Drab brown European flycatcher with subtle streaks on its breast, sitting upright on an exposed perch and sallying out for flies. A late spring arrival in Europe after wintering in Africa.
Slim Eurasian songbird in black, white, and gray that pumps its long tail constantly as it walks. A cosmopolitan species with many regional plumage subspecies.
Sooty-gray European flycatcher of rocky country and cities, with the same flame-orange tail-shiver as the Common Redstart. Famously colonized bombed-out London after WWII.
Mount on the side of a brick or stone building, ideally with rough-textured surroundings. Black Redstarts prefer the urban-industrial aesthetic, quiet courtyards, factory walls, scrubby brownfield.
Glossy black European thrush with a bright yellow eyering and bill, the bird in 'Sing a Song of Sixpence.' A confident lawn forager and one of Europe's most prolific singers.
Mount in or near dense climber growth (ivy, honeysuckle, climbing rose). Blackbirds tolerate human activity well but want some screening from above and the side.
Stubby-tailed swallow with a blue-black back, white rump, and snow-white underparts that builds enclosed mud-cup nests under eaves. Highly colonial, nests are usually clustered together.
Tiny European flycatcher with a Robin-like male - sooty grey-brown back, soft orange throat patch, and a constantly twitching white-edged tail. Breeds in mature deciduous forest of central and eastern Europe; winters thousands of miles away on the Indian subcontinent.
Squat, perpetually-frowning small owl of European farmland, Athena's owl, the symbol of Greek wisdom. Often hunts in daylight, perched on fence posts scanning for beetles and worms.
Floor
8" × 8"
Height
12"
Mount
8–20 ft
Wall
1.0"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilation
Often built as a horizontal tunnel (L-shaped). Consider a two-part print: tunnel + nesting chamber.
Stocky, large-headed European woodland owl whose classic 'twit-twoo' is actually a duet between a female ('twit') and a male ('twoo'). Strictly nocturnal and fiercely territorial.
Floor
10" × 10"
Height
18"
Mount
10–25 ft
Wall
1.0"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
Ventilation
Large chimney-style box. Multi-part print required. Add rough interior texture for owlets climbing out.
Jewel-toned Eurasian kingfisher with an electric-blue back and chestnut underparts that flash along streams. Dives from a perch to spear small fish, swallowing them headfirst back at the perch.
Floor
7" × 7"
Height
10"
Mount
1–3 ft
Wall
1.0"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
Drainage
Requires a long entrance tunnel (~12") angled slightly upward. Very specialist design, best as a multi-part horizontal tube.
Stunning crow-sized cavity-nester in turquoise and chestnut - Europe's most exotic-looking native bird. Sallies for large insects from open perches, performs aerial 'rolling' courtship dives that give the family its name, and migrates 8 000 km each way to winter in southern Africa.
Floor
8" × 8"
Height
12"
Mount
10–25 ft
Wall
0.75"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilationPredator guard
70 mm hole, 8"×8" floor, 12" interior height. Heavy bird - wall thickness 0.75" is the minimum; predator guard around the hole strongly recommended. Pack 1–2" of wood shavings on the floor for the eggs.
open farmland with scattered old treesriver valleys with veteran oakssteppe and dehesa pasturelandMediterranean wood-pasture
Stunning cinnamon, black-and-white cavity nester with a huge erectile crown crest - instantly recognisable across Eurasia and Africa. Famous for its 'hoop-hoop-hoop' call (the source of the name) and for the conservation nest-box programmes that have rebuilt local populations from Switzerland to Spain.
Floor
8" × 8"
Height
12"
Mount
3–12 ft
Wall
0.75"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilationPredator guard
2.5" hole, 8"×8" floor, 12" interior. NO floor shavings - they nest on bare wood, sometimes with a foul-smelling secretion the female uses as predator deterrent. Don't be alarmed by the smell after fledging.
open farmland with scattered treesorchards and vineyardstraditional pasture and meadowwood-pasture and dehesavillage edges with old walls
Glossy-capped little tit of mature oak and beech woods. Nearly identical in plumage to Willow Tit, but separable by its sneeze-like 'pitchew' call and the small, neat black bib. The 'marsh' name is misleading - it's a dry-woodland bird.
The only tit in Europe with a spiky black-and-white crest, unmistakable once you've seen it. A pine-forest specialist with a soft trilling 'perurrrrr' call, found wherever mature Scots pine or Norway spruce stands have been left alone.
25 mm hole. Same body as Coal Tit / Blue Tit. Stuff the floor with 1" of wood shavings - they'll excavate the rest themselves to mimic a rotted stump cavity.
mature conifer forestsScots and Caledonian pinespruce plantations with standing deadwoodwooded gardens with old conifers
Striking black-and-white European flycatcher of mature oak woodland - the male's bold white collar and broad white forehead separate him from his cousin the Pied Flycatcher. A long-distance migrant from Africa that famously favours nest boxes and is the workhorse study species of European behavioural ecology.
The chestnut-crowned, white-collared cousin of the House Sparrow - neat, both-sexes-identical, more rural and arboreal than its city-dwelling relative. UK Red-listed and dramatically declined across western Europe; still common across Asia, where it fills the urban niche House Sparrow occupies in Europe.
28 mm hole, identical body to the Blue Tit / Pied Flycatcher small box. They prefer COLONIAL nesting - install boxes in groups of 3–6 spaced 5–10 m apart on the same row of trees or wall.
traditional farmland with hedgerowsvillage edges and orchardswood-pasture and copsesriverbank tree lines
A cryptically barked little woodpecker that breaks every rule of the family - it doesn't drill, it uses cavities, it eats almost nothing but ants, and when threatened it twists its neck in slow snake-like coils that gave the species its name. A vanished British breeder, a thriving central-European migrant, and one of the most-overlooked nest-box species in Europe.
32 mm hole, 5"×5" floor, 10" interior - slightly deeper than the tit boxes to accommodate the larger clutches (7–12 eggs). Mount 2–4 m up on a mature fruit tree or sun-warmed wall facing east. Don't pack the floor - they nest directly on the wood.
traditional orchards and vineyardswood-pasture with mature treesopen broadleaf woodland edgesvillage gardens with old fruit treesant-rich short pasture
Open-Front Shelf
Open-front nesting shelf, no entrance hole
Tiny European flycatcher with a Robin-like male - sooty grey-brown back, soft orange throat patch, and a constantly twitching white-edged tail. Breeds in mature deciduous forest of central and eastern Europe; winters thousands of miles away on the Indian subcontinent.
Stunning crow-sized cavity-nester in turquoise and chestnut - Europe's most exotic-looking native bird. Sallies for large insects from open perches, performs aerial 'rolling' courtship dives that give the family its name, and migrates 8 000 km each way to winter in southern Africa.
Floor
8" × 8"
Height
12"
Mount
10–25 ft
Wall
0.75"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilationPredator guard
70 mm hole, 8"×8" floor, 12" interior height. Heavy bird - wall thickness 0.75" is the minimum; predator guard around the hole strongly recommended. Pack 1–2" of wood shavings on the floor for the eggs.
open farmland with scattered old treesriver valleys with veteran oakssteppe and dehesa pasturelandMediterranean wood-pasture
Stunning cinnamon, black-and-white cavity nester with a huge erectile crown crest - instantly recognisable across Eurasia and Africa. Famous for its 'hoop-hoop-hoop' call (the source of the name) and for the conservation nest-box programmes that have rebuilt local populations from Switzerland to Spain.
Floor
8" × 8"
Height
12"
Mount
3–12 ft
Wall
0.75"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilationPredator guard
2.5" hole, 8"×8" floor, 12" interior. NO floor shavings - they nest on bare wood, sometimes with a foul-smelling secretion the female uses as predator deterrent. Don't be alarmed by the smell after fledging.
open farmland with scattered treesorchards and vineyardstraditional pasture and meadowwood-pasture and dehesavillage edges with old walls
The only tit in Europe with a spiky black-and-white crest, unmistakable once you've seen it. A pine-forest specialist with a soft trilling 'perurrrrr' call, found wherever mature Scots pine or Norway spruce stands have been left alone.
25 mm hole. Same body as Coal Tit / Blue Tit. Stuff the floor with 1" of wood shavings - they'll excavate the rest themselves to mimic a rotted stump cavity.
mature conifer forestsScots and Caledonian pinespruce plantations with standing deadwoodwooded gardens with old conifers
Striking black-and-white European flycatcher of mature oak woodland - the male's bold white collar and broad white forehead separate him from his cousin the Pied Flycatcher. A long-distance migrant from Africa that famously favours nest boxes and is the workhorse study species of European behavioural ecology.
The chestnut-crowned, white-collared cousin of the House Sparrow - neat, both-sexes-identical, more rural and arboreal than its city-dwelling relative. UK Red-listed and dramatically declined across western Europe; still common across Asia, where it fills the urban niche House Sparrow occupies in Europe.
28 mm hole, identical body to the Blue Tit / Pied Flycatcher small box. They prefer COLONIAL nesting - install boxes in groups of 3–6 spaced 5–10 m apart on the same row of trees or wall.
traditional farmland with hedgerowsvillage edges and orchardswood-pasture and copsesriverbank tree lines
A cryptically barked little woodpecker that breaks every rule of the family - it doesn't drill, it uses cavities, it eats almost nothing but ants, and when threatened it twists its neck in slow snake-like coils that gave the species its name. A vanished British breeder, a thriving central-European migrant, and one of the most-overlooked nest-box species in Europe.
32 mm hole, 5"×5" floor, 10" interior - slightly deeper than the tit boxes to accommodate the larger clutches (7–12 eggs). Mount 2–4 m up on a mature fruit tree or sun-warmed wall facing east. Don't pack the floor - they nest directly on the wood.
traditional orchards and vineyardswood-pasture with mature treesopen broadleaf woodland edgesvillage gardens with old fruit treesant-rich short pasture
Open-Front Shelf
Open-front nesting shelf, no entrance hole
Tiny European flycatcher with a Robin-like male - sooty grey-brown back, soft orange throat patch, and a constantly twitching white-edged tail. Breeds in mature deciduous forest of central and eastern Europe; winters thousands of miles away on the Indian subcontinent.
Stunning crow-sized cavity-nester in turquoise and chestnut - Europe's most exotic-looking native bird. Sallies for large insects from open perches, performs aerial 'rolling' courtship dives that give the family its name, and migrates 8 000 km each way to winter in southern Africa.
Floor
8" × 8"
Height
12"
Mount
10–25 ft
Wall
0.75"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilationPredator guard
70 mm hole, 8"×8" floor, 12" interior height. Heavy bird - wall thickness 0.75" is the minimum; predator guard around the hole strongly recommended. Pack 1–2" of wood shavings on the floor for the eggs.
open farmland with scattered old treesriver valleys with veteran oakssteppe and dehesa pasturelandMediterranean wood-pasture
Stunning cinnamon, black-and-white cavity nester with a huge erectile crown crest - instantly recognisable across Eurasia and Africa. Famous for its 'hoop-hoop-hoop' call (the source of the name) and for the conservation nest-box programmes that have rebuilt local populations from Switzerland to Spain.
Floor
8" × 8"
Height
12"
Mount
3–12 ft
Wall
0.75"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilationPredator guard
2.5" hole, 8"×8" floor, 12" interior. NO floor shavings - they nest on bare wood, sometimes with a foul-smelling secretion the female uses as predator deterrent. Don't be alarmed by the smell after fledging.
open farmland with scattered treesorchards and vineyardstraditional pasture and meadowwood-pasture and dehesavillage edges with old walls
Glossy-capped little tit of mature oak and beech woods. Nearly identical in plumage to Willow Tit, but separable by its sneeze-like 'pitchew' call and the small, neat black bib. The 'marsh' name is misleading - it's a dry-woodland bird.
The only tit in Europe with a spiky black-and-white crest, unmistakable once you've seen it. A pine-forest specialist with a soft trilling 'perurrrrr' call, found wherever mature Scots pine or Norway spruce stands have been left alone.
25 mm hole. Same body as Coal Tit / Blue Tit. Stuff the floor with 1" of wood shavings - they'll excavate the rest themselves to mimic a rotted stump cavity.
mature conifer forestsScots and Caledonian pinespruce plantations with standing deadwoodwooded gardens with old conifers
Striking black-and-white European flycatcher of mature oak woodland - the male's bold white collar and broad white forehead separate him from his cousin the Pied Flycatcher. A long-distance migrant from Africa that famously favours nest boxes and is the workhorse study species of European behavioural ecology.
The chestnut-crowned, white-collared cousin of the House Sparrow - neat, both-sexes-identical, more rural and arboreal than its city-dwelling relative. UK Red-listed and dramatically declined across western Europe; still common across Asia, where it fills the urban niche House Sparrow occupies in Europe.
28 mm hole, identical body to the Blue Tit / Pied Flycatcher small box. They prefer COLONIAL nesting - install boxes in groups of 3–6 spaced 5–10 m apart on the same row of trees or wall.
traditional farmland with hedgerowsvillage edges and orchardswood-pasture and copsesriverbank tree lines
A cryptically barked little woodpecker that breaks every rule of the family - it doesn't drill, it uses cavities, it eats almost nothing but ants, and when threatened it twists its neck in slow snake-like coils that gave the species its name. A vanished British breeder, a thriving central-European migrant, and one of the most-overlooked nest-box species in Europe.
32 mm hole, 5"×5" floor, 10" interior - slightly deeper than the tit boxes to accommodate the larger clutches (7–12 eggs). Mount 2–4 m up on a mature fruit tree or sun-warmed wall facing east. Don't pack the floor - they nest directly on the wood.
traditional orchards and vineyardswood-pasture with mature treesopen broadleaf woodland edgesvillage gardens with old fruit treesant-rich short pasture
Open-Front Shelf
Open-front nesting shelf, no entrance hole
Tiny European flycatcher with a Robin-like male - sooty grey-brown back, soft orange throat patch, and a constantly twitching white-edged tail. Breeds in mature deciduous forest of central and eastern Europe; winters thousands of miles away on the Indian subcontinent.
Stunning crow-sized cavity-nester in turquoise and chestnut - Europe's most exotic-looking native bird. Sallies for large insects from open perches, performs aerial 'rolling' courtship dives that give the family its name, and migrates 8 000 km each way to winter in southern Africa.
Floor
8" × 8"
Height
12"
Mount
10–25 ft
Wall
0.75"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilationPredator guard
70 mm hole, 8"×8" floor, 12" interior height. Heavy bird - wall thickness 0.75" is the minimum; predator guard around the hole strongly recommended. Pack 1–2" of wood shavings on the floor for the eggs.
open farmland with scattered old treesriver valleys with veteran oakssteppe and dehesa pasturelandMediterranean wood-pasture
Stunning cinnamon, black-and-white cavity nester with a huge erectile crown crest - instantly recognisable across Eurasia and Africa. Famous for its 'hoop-hoop-hoop' call (the source of the name) and for the conservation nest-box programmes that have rebuilt local populations from Switzerland to Spain.
Floor
8" × 8"
Height
12"
Mount
3–12 ft
Wall
0.75"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilationPredator guard
2.5" hole, 8"×8" floor, 12" interior. NO floor shavings - they nest on bare wood, sometimes with a foul-smelling secretion the female uses as predator deterrent. Don't be alarmed by the smell after fledging.
open farmland with scattered treesorchards and vineyardstraditional pasture and meadowwood-pasture and dehesavillage edges with old walls
The biggest tit in Europe and the most retiring - a Marsh-Tit-shaped bird half again as large, in subtle pewter, brown, and chalky white. Lives in dry old oak and rocky hillside woodland from the Balkans to the Levant. Rarely seen at feeders; far more likely heard, with a buzzy, scolding 'che-che-cherrrr'.
Striking black-and-white European flycatcher of mature oak woodland - the male's bold white collar and broad white forehead separate him from his cousin the Pied Flycatcher. A long-distance migrant from Africa that famously favours nest boxes and is the workhorse study species of European behavioural ecology.
The most boldly-marked European sparrow - males have a chestnut crown, white cheeks, and a heavily streaked black-and-cream underparts that no other sparrow approaches. A colonial Mediterranean and North African farmland bird that builds huge communal stick nests in tree canopies, and the parent species (with House Sparrow) of the stabilised hybrid Italian Sparrow.
32 mm hole, 5"×5" floor. Mount in groups of 4+ along the same wall or fence - they prospect for sites with visible neighbours. Will also fill the side-cavities of large stick nests (storks, herons), so don't be surprised if a colony forms in a less-obvious spot nearby.
Mediterranean farmland with hedgerowsriver valleys with mature treesvillage edges and old buildingsolive groves and vineyardsstick-nests of larger birds
A cryptically barked little woodpecker that breaks every rule of the family - it doesn't drill, it uses cavities, it eats almost nothing but ants, and when threatened it twists its neck in slow snake-like coils that gave the species its name. A vanished British breeder, a thriving central-European migrant, and one of the most-overlooked nest-box species in Europe.
32 mm hole, 5"×5" floor, 10" interior - slightly deeper than the tit boxes to accommodate the larger clutches (7–12 eggs). Mount 2–4 m up on a mature fruit tree or sun-warmed wall facing east. Don't pack the floor - they nest directly on the wood.
traditional orchards and vineyardswood-pasture with mature treesopen broadleaf woodland edgesvillage gardens with old fruit treesant-rich short pasture
Open-Front Shelf
Open-front nesting shelf, no entrance hole
Tiny European flycatcher with a Robin-like male - sooty grey-brown back, soft orange throat patch, and a constantly twitching white-edged tail. Breeds in mature deciduous forest of central and eastern Europe; winters thousands of miles away on the Indian subcontinent.
Stunning crow-sized cavity-nester in turquoise and chestnut - Europe's most exotic-looking native bird. Sallies for large insects from open perches, performs aerial 'rolling' courtship dives that give the family its name, and migrates 8 000 km each way to winter in southern Africa.
Floor
8" × 8"
Height
12"
Mount
10–25 ft
Wall
0.75"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilationPredator guard
70 mm hole, 8"×8" floor, 12" interior height. Heavy bird - wall thickness 0.75" is the minimum; predator guard around the hole strongly recommended. Pack 1–2" of wood shavings on the floor for the eggs.
open farmland with scattered old treesriver valleys with veteran oakssteppe and dehesa pasturelandMediterranean wood-pasture
Stunning cinnamon, black-and-white cavity nester with a huge erectile crown crest - instantly recognisable across Eurasia and Africa. Famous for its 'hoop-hoop-hoop' call (the source of the name) and for the conservation nest-box programmes that have rebuilt local populations from Switzerland to Spain.
Floor
8" × 8"
Height
12"
Mount
3–12 ft
Wall
0.75"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilationPredator guard
2.5" hole, 8"×8" floor, 12" interior. NO floor shavings - they nest on bare wood, sometimes with a foul-smelling secretion the female uses as predator deterrent. Don't be alarmed by the smell after fledging.
open farmland with scattered treesorchards and vineyardstraditional pasture and meadowwood-pasture and dehesavillage edges with old walls
The biggest tit in Europe and the most retiring - a Marsh-Tit-shaped bird half again as large, in subtle pewter, brown, and chalky white. Lives in dry old oak and rocky hillside woodland from the Balkans to the Levant. Rarely seen at feeders; far more likely heard, with a buzzy, scolding 'che-che-cherrrr'.
Striking black-and-white European flycatcher of mature oak woodland - the male's bold white collar and broad white forehead separate him from his cousin the Pied Flycatcher. A long-distance migrant from Africa that famously favours nest boxes and is the workhorse study species of European behavioural ecology.
The most boldly-marked European sparrow - males have a chestnut crown, white cheeks, and a heavily streaked black-and-cream underparts that no other sparrow approaches. A colonial Mediterranean and North African farmland bird that builds huge communal stick nests in tree canopies, and the parent species (with House Sparrow) of the stabilised hybrid Italian Sparrow.
32 mm hole, 5"×5" floor. Mount in groups of 4+ along the same wall or fence - they prospect for sites with visible neighbours. Will also fill the side-cavities of large stick nests (storks, herons), so don't be surprised if a colony forms in a less-obvious spot nearby.
Mediterranean farmland with hedgerowsriver valleys with mature treesvillage edges and old buildingsolive groves and vineyardsstick-nests of larger birds
A cryptically barked little woodpecker that breaks every rule of the family - it doesn't drill, it uses cavities, it eats almost nothing but ants, and when threatened it twists its neck in slow snake-like coils that gave the species its name. A vanished British breeder, a thriving central-European migrant, and one of the most-overlooked nest-box species in Europe.
32 mm hole, 5"×5" floor, 10" interior - slightly deeper than the tit boxes to accommodate the larger clutches (7–12 eggs). Mount 2–4 m up on a mature fruit tree or sun-warmed wall facing east. Don't pack the floor - they nest directly on the wood.
traditional orchards and vineyardswood-pasture with mature treesopen broadleaf woodland edgesvillage gardens with old fruit treesant-rich short pasture
Open-Front Shelf
Open-front nesting shelf, no entrance hole
Tiny European flycatcher with a Robin-like male - sooty grey-brown back, soft orange throat patch, and a constantly twitching white-edged tail. Breeds in mature deciduous forest of central and eastern Europe; winters thousands of miles away on the Indian subcontinent.
Stunning crow-sized cavity-nester in turquoise and chestnut - Europe's most exotic-looking native bird. Sallies for large insects from open perches, performs aerial 'rolling' courtship dives that give the family its name, and migrates 8 000 km each way to winter in southern Africa.
Floor
8" × 8"
Height
12"
Mount
10–25 ft
Wall
0.75"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilationPredator guard
70 mm hole, 8"×8" floor, 12" interior height. Heavy bird - wall thickness 0.75" is the minimum; predator guard around the hole strongly recommended. Pack 1–2" of wood shavings on the floor for the eggs.
open farmland with scattered old treesriver valleys with veteran oakssteppe and dehesa pasturelandMediterranean wood-pasture
Stunning cinnamon, black-and-white cavity nester with a huge erectile crown crest - instantly recognisable across Eurasia and Africa. Famous for its 'hoop-hoop-hoop' call (the source of the name) and for the conservation nest-box programmes that have rebuilt local populations from Switzerland to Spain.
Floor
8" × 8"
Height
12"
Mount
3–12 ft
Wall
0.75"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilationPredator guard
2.5" hole, 8"×8" floor, 12" interior. NO floor shavings - they nest on bare wood, sometimes with a foul-smelling secretion the female uses as predator deterrent. Don't be alarmed by the smell after fledging.
open farmland with scattered treesorchards and vineyardstraditional pasture and meadowwood-pasture and dehesavillage edges with old walls
The biggest tit in Europe and the most retiring - a Marsh-Tit-shaped bird half again as large, in subtle pewter, brown, and chalky white. Lives in dry old oak and rocky hillside woodland from the Balkans to the Levant. Rarely seen at feeders; far more likely heard, with a buzzy, scolding 'che-che-cherrrr'.
Striking black-and-white European flycatcher of mature oak woodland - the male's bold white collar and broad white forehead separate him from his cousin the Pied Flycatcher. A long-distance migrant from Africa that famously favours nest boxes and is the workhorse study species of European behavioural ecology.
The most boldly-marked European sparrow - males have a chestnut crown, white cheeks, and a heavily streaked black-and-cream underparts that no other sparrow approaches. A colonial Mediterranean and North African farmland bird that builds huge communal stick nests in tree canopies, and the parent species (with House Sparrow) of the stabilised hybrid Italian Sparrow.
32 mm hole, 5"×5" floor. Mount in groups of 4+ along the same wall or fence - they prospect for sites with visible neighbours. Will also fill the side-cavities of large stick nests (storks, herons), so don't be surprised if a colony forms in a less-obvious spot nearby.
Mediterranean farmland with hedgerowsriver valleys with mature treesvillage edges and old buildingsolive groves and vineyardsstick-nests of larger birds
Open-Front Shelf
Open-front nesting shelf, no entrance hole
Tiny European flycatcher with a Robin-like male - sooty grey-brown back, soft orange throat patch, and a constantly twitching white-edged tail. Breeds in mature deciduous forest of central and eastern Europe; winters thousands of miles away on the Indian subcontinent.
Stunning crow-sized cavity-nester in turquoise and chestnut - Europe's most exotic-looking native bird. Sallies for large insects from open perches, performs aerial 'rolling' courtship dives that give the family its name, and migrates 8 000 km each way to winter in southern Africa.
Floor
8" × 8"
Height
12"
Mount
10–25 ft
Wall
0.75"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilationPredator guard
70 mm hole, 8"×8" floor, 12" interior height. Heavy bird - wall thickness 0.75" is the minimum; predator guard around the hole strongly recommended. Pack 1–2" of wood shavings on the floor for the eggs.
open farmland with scattered old treesriver valleys with veteran oakssteppe and dehesa pasturelandMediterranean wood-pasture
The biggest tit in Europe and the most retiring - a Marsh-Tit-shaped bird half again as large, in subtle pewter, brown, and chalky white. Lives in dry old oak and rocky hillside woodland from the Balkans to the Levant. Rarely seen at feeders; far more likely heard, with a buzzy, scolding 'che-che-cherrrr'.
Striking black-and-white European flycatcher of mature oak woodland - the male's bold white collar and broad white forehead separate him from his cousin the Pied Flycatcher. A long-distance migrant from Africa that famously favours nest boxes and is the workhorse study species of European behavioural ecology.
The most boldly-marked European sparrow - males have a chestnut crown, white cheeks, and a heavily streaked black-and-cream underparts that no other sparrow approaches. A colonial Mediterranean and North African farmland bird that builds huge communal stick nests in tree canopies, and the parent species (with House Sparrow) of the stabilised hybrid Italian Sparrow.
32 mm hole, 5"×5" floor. Mount in groups of 4+ along the same wall or fence - they prospect for sites with visible neighbours. Will also fill the side-cavities of large stick nests (storks, herons), so don't be surprised if a colony forms in a less-obvious spot nearby.
Mediterranean farmland with hedgerowsriver valleys with mature treesvillage edges and old buildingsolive groves and vineyardsstick-nests of larger birds
A cryptically barked little woodpecker that breaks every rule of the family - it doesn't drill, it uses cavities, it eats almost nothing but ants, and when threatened it twists its neck in slow snake-like coils that gave the species its name. A vanished British breeder, a thriving central-European migrant, and one of the most-overlooked nest-box species in Europe.
32 mm hole, 5"×5" floor, 10" interior - slightly deeper than the tit boxes to accommodate the larger clutches (7–12 eggs). Mount 2–4 m up on a mature fruit tree or sun-warmed wall facing east. Don't pack the floor - they nest directly on the wood.
traditional orchards and vineyardswood-pasture with mature treesopen broadleaf woodland edgesvillage gardens with old fruit treesant-rich short pasture
Open-Front Shelf
Open-front nesting shelf, no entrance hole
Tiny European flycatcher with a Robin-like male - sooty grey-brown back, soft orange throat patch, and a constantly twitching white-edged tail. Breeds in mature deciduous forest of central and eastern Europe; winters thousands of miles away on the Indian subcontinent.
Stunning crow-sized cavity-nester in turquoise and chestnut - Europe's most exotic-looking native bird. Sallies for large insects from open perches, performs aerial 'rolling' courtship dives that give the family its name, and migrates 8 000 km each way to winter in southern Africa.
Floor
8" × 8"
Height
12"
Mount
10–25 ft
Wall
0.75"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilationPredator guard
70 mm hole, 8"×8" floor, 12" interior height. Heavy bird - wall thickness 0.75" is the minimum; predator guard around the hole strongly recommended. Pack 1–2" of wood shavings on the floor for the eggs.
open farmland with scattered old treesriver valleys with veteran oakssteppe and dehesa pasturelandMediterranean wood-pasture
Stunning cinnamon, black-and-white cavity nester with a huge erectile crown crest - instantly recognisable across Eurasia and Africa. Famous for its 'hoop-hoop-hoop' call (the source of the name) and for the conservation nest-box programmes that have rebuilt local populations from Switzerland to Spain.
Floor
8" × 8"
Height
12"
Mount
3–12 ft
Wall
0.75"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilationPredator guard
2.5" hole, 8"×8" floor, 12" interior. NO floor shavings - they nest on bare wood, sometimes with a foul-smelling secretion the female uses as predator deterrent. Don't be alarmed by the smell after fledging.
open farmland with scattered treesorchards and vineyardstraditional pasture and meadowwood-pasture and dehesavillage edges with old walls
The biggest tit in Europe and the most retiring - a Marsh-Tit-shaped bird half again as large, in subtle pewter, brown, and chalky white. Lives in dry old oak and rocky hillside woodland from the Balkans to the Levant. Rarely seen at feeders; far more likely heard, with a buzzy, scolding 'che-che-cherrrr'.
The biggest tit in Europe and the most retiring - a Marsh-Tit-shaped bird half again as large, in subtle pewter, brown, and chalky white. Lives in dry old oak and rocky hillside woodland from the Balkans to the Levant. Rarely seen at feeders; far more likely heard, with a buzzy, scolding 'che-che-cherrrr'.
The most boldly-marked European sparrow - males have a chestnut crown, white cheeks, and a heavily streaked black-and-cream underparts that no other sparrow approaches. A colonial Mediterranean and North African farmland bird that builds huge communal stick nests in tree canopies, and the parent species (with House Sparrow) of the stabilised hybrid Italian Sparrow.
32 mm hole, 5"×5" floor. Mount in groups of 4+ along the same wall or fence - they prospect for sites with visible neighbours. Will also fill the side-cavities of large stick nests (storks, herons), so don't be surprised if a colony forms in a less-obvious spot nearby.
Mediterranean farmland with hedgerowsriver valleys with mature treesvillage edges and old buildingsolive groves and vineyardsstick-nests of larger birds
Stunning crow-sized cavity-nester in turquoise and chestnut - Europe's most exotic-looking native bird. Sallies for large insects from open perches, performs aerial 'rolling' courtship dives that give the family its name, and migrates 8 000 km each way to winter in southern Africa.
Floor
8" × 8"
Height
12"
Mount
10–25 ft
Wall
0.75"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilationPredator guard
70 mm hole, 8"×8" floor, 12" interior height. Heavy bird - wall thickness 0.75" is the minimum; predator guard around the hole strongly recommended. Pack 1–2" of wood shavings on the floor for the eggs.
open farmland with scattered old treesriver valleys with veteran oakssteppe and dehesa pasturelandMediterranean wood-pasture
Stunning cinnamon, black-and-white cavity nester with a huge erectile crown crest - instantly recognisable across Eurasia and Africa. Famous for its 'hoop-hoop-hoop' call (the source of the name) and for the conservation nest-box programmes that have rebuilt local populations from Switzerland to Spain.
Floor
8" × 8"
Height
12"
Mount
3–12 ft
Wall
0.75"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilationPredator guard
2.5" hole, 8"×8" floor, 12" interior. NO floor shavings - they nest on bare wood, sometimes with a foul-smelling secretion the female uses as predator deterrent. Don't be alarmed by the smell after fledging.
open farmland with scattered treesorchards and vineyardstraditional pasture and meadowwood-pasture and dehesavillage edges with old walls
The biggest tit in Europe and the most retiring - a Marsh-Tit-shaped bird half again as large, in subtle pewter, brown, and chalky white. Lives in dry old oak and rocky hillside woodland from the Balkans to the Levant. Rarely seen at feeders; far more likely heard, with a buzzy, scolding 'che-che-cherrrr'.
Stunning crow-sized cavity-nester in turquoise and chestnut - Europe's most exotic-looking native bird. Sallies for large insects from open perches, performs aerial 'rolling' courtship dives that give the family its name, and migrates 8 000 km each way to winter in southern Africa.
Floor
8" × 8"
Height
12"
Mount
10–25 ft
Wall
0.75"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilationPredator guard
70 mm hole, 8"×8" floor, 12" interior height. Heavy bird - wall thickness 0.75" is the minimum; predator guard around the hole strongly recommended. Pack 1–2" of wood shavings on the floor for the eggs.
open farmland with scattered old treesriver valleys with veteran oakssteppe and dehesa pasturelandMediterranean wood-pasture
Glossy-capped little tit of mature oak and beech woods. Nearly identical in plumage to Willow Tit, but separable by its sneeze-like 'pitchew' call and the small, neat black bib. The 'marsh' name is misleading - it's a dry-woodland bird.
The only tit in Europe with a spiky black-and-white crest, unmistakable once you've seen it. A pine-forest specialist with a soft trilling 'perurrrrr' call, found wherever mature Scots pine or Norway spruce stands have been left alone.
25 mm hole. Same body as Coal Tit / Blue Tit. Stuff the floor with 1" of wood shavings - they'll excavate the rest themselves to mimic a rotted stump cavity.
mature conifer forestsScots and Caledonian pinespruce plantations with standing deadwoodwooded gardens with old conifers
The biggest tit in Europe and the most retiring - a Marsh-Tit-shaped bird half again as large, in subtle pewter, brown, and chalky white. Lives in dry old oak and rocky hillside woodland from the Balkans to the Levant. Rarely seen at feeders; far more likely heard, with a buzzy, scolding 'che-che-cherrrr'.
Striking black-and-white European flycatcher of mature oak woodland - the male's bold white collar and broad white forehead separate him from his cousin the Pied Flycatcher. A long-distance migrant from Africa that famously favours nest boxes and is the workhorse study species of European behavioural ecology.
The chestnut-crowned, white-collared cousin of the House Sparrow - neat, both-sexes-identical, more rural and arboreal than its city-dwelling relative. UK Red-listed and dramatically declined across western Europe; still common across Asia, where it fills the urban niche House Sparrow occupies in Europe.
28 mm hole, identical body to the Blue Tit / Pied Flycatcher small box. They prefer COLONIAL nesting - install boxes in groups of 3–6 spaced 5–10 m apart on the same row of trees or wall.
traditional farmland with hedgerowsvillage edges and orchardswood-pasture and copsesriverbank tree lines
The most boldly-marked European sparrow - males have a chestnut crown, white cheeks, and a heavily streaked black-and-cream underparts that no other sparrow approaches. A colonial Mediterranean and North African farmland bird that builds huge communal stick nests in tree canopies, and the parent species (with House Sparrow) of the stabilised hybrid Italian Sparrow.
32 mm hole, 5"×5" floor. Mount in groups of 4+ along the same wall or fence - they prospect for sites with visible neighbours. Will also fill the side-cavities of large stick nests (storks, herons), so don't be surprised if a colony forms in a less-obvious spot nearby.
Mediterranean farmland with hedgerowsriver valleys with mature treesvillage edges and old buildingsolive groves and vineyardsstick-nests of larger birds
A cryptically barked little woodpecker that breaks every rule of the family - it doesn't drill, it uses cavities, it eats almost nothing but ants, and when threatened it twists its neck in slow snake-like coils that gave the species its name. A vanished British breeder, a thriving central-European migrant, and one of the most-overlooked nest-box species in Europe.
32 mm hole, 5"×5" floor, 10" interior - slightly deeper than the tit boxes to accommodate the larger clutches (7–12 eggs). Mount 2–4 m up on a mature fruit tree or sun-warmed wall facing east. Don't pack the floor - they nest directly on the wood.
traditional orchards and vineyardswood-pasture with mature treesopen broadleaf woodland edgesvillage gardens with old fruit treesant-rich short pasture
Open-Front Shelf
Open-front nesting shelf, no entrance hole
Tiny European flycatcher with a Robin-like male - sooty grey-brown back, soft orange throat patch, and a constantly twitching white-edged tail. Breeds in mature deciduous forest of central and eastern Europe; winters thousands of miles away on the Indian subcontinent.
Stunning crow-sized cavity-nester in turquoise and chestnut - Europe's most exotic-looking native bird. Sallies for large insects from open perches, performs aerial 'rolling' courtship dives that give the family its name, and migrates 8 000 km each way to winter in southern Africa.
Floor
8" × 8"
Height
12"
Mount
10–25 ft
Wall
0.75"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilationPredator guard
70 mm hole, 8"×8" floor, 12" interior height. Heavy bird - wall thickness 0.75" is the minimum; predator guard around the hole strongly recommended. Pack 1–2" of wood shavings on the floor for the eggs.
open farmland with scattered old treesriver valleys with veteran oakssteppe and dehesa pasturelandMediterranean wood-pasture
Stunning cinnamon, black-and-white cavity nester with a huge erectile crown crest - instantly recognisable across Eurasia and Africa. Famous for its 'hoop-hoop-hoop' call (the source of the name) and for the conservation nest-box programmes that have rebuilt local populations from Switzerland to Spain.
Floor
8" × 8"
Height
12"
Mount
3–12 ft
Wall
0.75"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilationPredator guard
2.5" hole, 8"×8" floor, 12" interior. NO floor shavings - they nest on bare wood, sometimes with a foul-smelling secretion the female uses as predator deterrent. Don't be alarmed by the smell after fledging.
open farmland with scattered treesorchards and vineyardstraditional pasture and meadowwood-pasture and dehesavillage edges with old walls
The only tit in Europe with a spiky black-and-white crest, unmistakable once you've seen it. A pine-forest specialist with a soft trilling 'perurrrrr' call, found wherever mature Scots pine or Norway spruce stands have been left alone.
25 mm hole. Same body as Coal Tit / Blue Tit. Stuff the floor with 1" of wood shavings - they'll excavate the rest themselves to mimic a rotted stump cavity.
mature conifer forestsScots and Caledonian pinespruce plantations with standing deadwoodwooded gardens with old conifers
The biggest tit in Europe and the most retiring - a Marsh-Tit-shaped bird half again as large, in subtle pewter, brown, and chalky white. Lives in dry old oak and rocky hillside woodland from the Balkans to the Levant. Rarely seen at feeders; far more likely heard, with a buzzy, scolding 'che-che-cherrrr'.
Striking black-and-white European flycatcher of mature oak woodland - the male's bold white collar and broad white forehead separate him from his cousin the Pied Flycatcher. A long-distance migrant from Africa that famously favours nest boxes and is the workhorse study species of European behavioural ecology.
The chestnut-crowned, white-collared cousin of the House Sparrow - neat, both-sexes-identical, more rural and arboreal than its city-dwelling relative. UK Red-listed and dramatically declined across western Europe; still common across Asia, where it fills the urban niche House Sparrow occupies in Europe.
28 mm hole, identical body to the Blue Tit / Pied Flycatcher small box. They prefer COLONIAL nesting - install boxes in groups of 3–6 spaced 5–10 m apart on the same row of trees or wall.
traditional farmland with hedgerowsvillage edges and orchardswood-pasture and copsesriverbank tree lines
The most boldly-marked European sparrow - males have a chestnut crown, white cheeks, and a heavily streaked black-and-cream underparts that no other sparrow approaches. A colonial Mediterranean and North African farmland bird that builds huge communal stick nests in tree canopies, and the parent species (with House Sparrow) of the stabilised hybrid Italian Sparrow.
32 mm hole, 5"×5" floor. Mount in groups of 4+ along the same wall or fence - they prospect for sites with visible neighbours. Will also fill the side-cavities of large stick nests (storks, herons), so don't be surprised if a colony forms in a less-obvious spot nearby.
Mediterranean farmland with hedgerowsriver valleys with mature treesvillage edges and old buildingsolive groves and vineyardsstick-nests of larger birds
A cryptically barked little woodpecker that breaks every rule of the family - it doesn't drill, it uses cavities, it eats almost nothing but ants, and when threatened it twists its neck in slow snake-like coils that gave the species its name. A vanished British breeder, a thriving central-European migrant, and one of the most-overlooked nest-box species in Europe.
32 mm hole, 5"×5" floor, 10" interior - slightly deeper than the tit boxes to accommodate the larger clutches (7–12 eggs). Mount 2–4 m up on a mature fruit tree or sun-warmed wall facing east. Don't pack the floor - they nest directly on the wood.
traditional orchards and vineyardswood-pasture with mature treesopen broadleaf woodland edgesvillage gardens with old fruit treesant-rich short pasture
Open-Front Shelf
Open-front nesting shelf, no entrance hole
Tiny European flycatcher with a Robin-like male - sooty grey-brown back, soft orange throat patch, and a constantly twitching white-edged tail. Breeds in mature deciduous forest of central and eastern Europe; winters thousands of miles away on the Indian subcontinent.
Stunning crow-sized cavity-nester in turquoise and chestnut - Europe's most exotic-looking native bird. Sallies for large insects from open perches, performs aerial 'rolling' courtship dives that give the family its name, and migrates 8 000 km each way to winter in southern Africa.
Floor
8" × 8"
Height
12"
Mount
10–25 ft
Wall
0.75"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilationPredator guard
70 mm hole, 8"×8" floor, 12" interior height. Heavy bird - wall thickness 0.75" is the minimum; predator guard around the hole strongly recommended. Pack 1–2" of wood shavings on the floor for the eggs.
open farmland with scattered old treesriver valleys with veteran oakssteppe and dehesa pasturelandMediterranean wood-pasture
Stunning cinnamon, black-and-white cavity nester with a huge erectile crown crest - instantly recognisable across Eurasia and Africa. Famous for its 'hoop-hoop-hoop' call (the source of the name) and for the conservation nest-box programmes that have rebuilt local populations from Switzerland to Spain.
Floor
8" × 8"
Height
12"
Mount
3–12 ft
Wall
0.75"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilationPredator guard
2.5" hole, 8"×8" floor, 12" interior. NO floor shavings - they nest on bare wood, sometimes with a foul-smelling secretion the female uses as predator deterrent. Don't be alarmed by the smell after fledging.
open farmland with scattered treesorchards and vineyardstraditional pasture and meadowwood-pasture and dehesavillage edges with old walls
Striking black-and-white European flycatcher of mature oak woodland - the male's bold white collar and broad white forehead separate him from his cousin the Pied Flycatcher. A long-distance migrant from Africa that famously favours nest boxes and is the workhorse study species of European behavioural ecology.
The chestnut-crowned, white-collared cousin of the House Sparrow - neat, both-sexes-identical, more rural and arboreal than its city-dwelling relative. UK Red-listed and dramatically declined across western Europe; still common across Asia, where it fills the urban niche House Sparrow occupies in Europe.
28 mm hole, identical body to the Blue Tit / Pied Flycatcher small box. They prefer COLONIAL nesting - install boxes in groups of 3–6 spaced 5–10 m apart on the same row of trees or wall.
traditional farmland with hedgerowsvillage edges and orchardswood-pasture and copsesriverbank tree lines
A cryptically barked little woodpecker that breaks every rule of the family - it doesn't drill, it uses cavities, it eats almost nothing but ants, and when threatened it twists its neck in slow snake-like coils that gave the species its name. A vanished British breeder, a thriving central-European migrant, and one of the most-overlooked nest-box species in Europe.
32 mm hole, 5"×5" floor, 10" interior - slightly deeper than the tit boxes to accommodate the larger clutches (7–12 eggs). Mount 2–4 m up on a mature fruit tree or sun-warmed wall facing east. Don't pack the floor - they nest directly on the wood.
traditional orchards and vineyardswood-pasture with mature treesopen broadleaf woodland edgesvillage gardens with old fruit treesant-rich short pasture
Open-Front Shelf
Open-front nesting shelf, no entrance hole
Tiny European flycatcher with a Robin-like male - sooty grey-brown back, soft orange throat patch, and a constantly twitching white-edged tail. Breeds in mature deciduous forest of central and eastern Europe; winters thousands of miles away on the Indian subcontinent.
Stunning crow-sized cavity-nester in turquoise and chestnut - Europe's most exotic-looking native bird. Sallies for large insects from open perches, performs aerial 'rolling' courtship dives that give the family its name, and migrates 8 000 km each way to winter in southern Africa.
Floor
8" × 8"
Height
12"
Mount
10–25 ft
Wall
0.75"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilationPredator guard
70 mm hole, 8"×8" floor, 12" interior height. Heavy bird - wall thickness 0.75" is the minimum; predator guard around the hole strongly recommended. Pack 1–2" of wood shavings on the floor for the eggs.
open farmland with scattered old treesriver valleys with veteran oakssteppe and dehesa pasturelandMediterranean wood-pasture
Stunning cinnamon, black-and-white cavity nester with a huge erectile crown crest - instantly recognisable across Eurasia and Africa. Famous for its 'hoop-hoop-hoop' call (the source of the name) and for the conservation nest-box programmes that have rebuilt local populations from Switzerland to Spain.
Floor
8" × 8"
Height
12"
Mount
3–12 ft
Wall
0.75"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilationPredator guard
2.5" hole, 8"×8" floor, 12" interior. NO floor shavings - they nest on bare wood, sometimes with a foul-smelling secretion the female uses as predator deterrent. Don't be alarmed by the smell after fledging.
open farmland with scattered treesorchards and vineyardstraditional pasture and meadowwood-pasture and dehesavillage edges with old walls
Striking black-and-white European flycatcher of mature oak woodland - the male's bold white collar and broad white forehead separate him from his cousin the Pied Flycatcher. A long-distance migrant from Africa that famously favours nest boxes and is the workhorse study species of European behavioural ecology.
The chestnut-crowned, white-collared cousin of the House Sparrow - neat, both-sexes-identical, more rural and arboreal than its city-dwelling relative. UK Red-listed and dramatically declined across western Europe; still common across Asia, where it fills the urban niche House Sparrow occupies in Europe.
28 mm hole, identical body to the Blue Tit / Pied Flycatcher small box. They prefer COLONIAL nesting - install boxes in groups of 3–6 spaced 5–10 m apart on the same row of trees or wall.
traditional farmland with hedgerowsvillage edges and orchardswood-pasture and copsesriverbank tree lines
The most boldly-marked European sparrow - males have a chestnut crown, white cheeks, and a heavily streaked black-and-cream underparts that no other sparrow approaches. A colonial Mediterranean and North African farmland bird that builds huge communal stick nests in tree canopies, and the parent species (with House Sparrow) of the stabilised hybrid Italian Sparrow.
32 mm hole, 5"×5" floor. Mount in groups of 4+ along the same wall or fence - they prospect for sites with visible neighbours. Will also fill the side-cavities of large stick nests (storks, herons), so don't be surprised if a colony forms in a less-obvious spot nearby.
Mediterranean farmland with hedgerowsriver valleys with mature treesvillage edges and old buildingsolive groves and vineyardsstick-nests of larger birds
A cryptically barked little woodpecker that breaks every rule of the family - it doesn't drill, it uses cavities, it eats almost nothing but ants, and when threatened it twists its neck in slow snake-like coils that gave the species its name. A vanished British breeder, a thriving central-European migrant, and one of the most-overlooked nest-box species in Europe.
32 mm hole, 5"×5" floor, 10" interior - slightly deeper than the tit boxes to accommodate the larger clutches (7–12 eggs). Mount 2–4 m up on a mature fruit tree or sun-warmed wall facing east. Don't pack the floor - they nest directly on the wood.
traditional orchards and vineyardswood-pasture with mature treesopen broadleaf woodland edgesvillage gardens with old fruit treesant-rich short pasture
Open-Front Shelf
Open-front nesting shelf, no entrance hole
Tiny European flycatcher with a Robin-like male - sooty grey-brown back, soft orange throat patch, and a constantly twitching white-edged tail. Breeds in mature deciduous forest of central and eastern Europe; winters thousands of miles away on the Indian subcontinent.
Stunning crow-sized cavity-nester in turquoise and chestnut - Europe's most exotic-looking native bird. Sallies for large insects from open perches, performs aerial 'rolling' courtship dives that give the family its name, and migrates 8 000 km each way to winter in southern Africa.
Floor
8" × 8"
Height
12"
Mount
10–25 ft
Wall
0.75"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilationPredator guard
70 mm hole, 8"×8" floor, 12" interior height. Heavy bird - wall thickness 0.75" is the minimum; predator guard around the hole strongly recommended. Pack 1–2" of wood shavings on the floor for the eggs.
open farmland with scattered old treesriver valleys with veteran oakssteppe and dehesa pasturelandMediterranean wood-pasture
Stunning cinnamon, black-and-white cavity nester with a huge erectile crown crest - instantly recognisable across Eurasia and Africa. Famous for its 'hoop-hoop-hoop' call (the source of the name) and for the conservation nest-box programmes that have rebuilt local populations from Switzerland to Spain.
Floor
8" × 8"
Height
12"
Mount
3–12 ft
Wall
0.75"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilationPredator guard
2.5" hole, 8"×8" floor, 12" interior. NO floor shavings - they nest on bare wood, sometimes with a foul-smelling secretion the female uses as predator deterrent. Don't be alarmed by the smell after fledging.
open farmland with scattered treesorchards and vineyardstraditional pasture and meadowwood-pasture and dehesavillage edges with old walls
The most boldly-marked European sparrow - males have a chestnut crown, white cheeks, and a heavily streaked black-and-cream underparts that no other sparrow approaches. A colonial Mediterranean and North African farmland bird that builds huge communal stick nests in tree canopies, and the parent species (with House Sparrow) of the stabilised hybrid Italian Sparrow.
32 mm hole, 5"×5" floor. Mount in groups of 4+ along the same wall or fence - they prospect for sites with visible neighbours. Will also fill the side-cavities of large stick nests (storks, herons), so don't be surprised if a colony forms in a less-obvious spot nearby.
Mediterranean farmland with hedgerowsriver valleys with mature treesvillage edges and old buildingsolive groves and vineyardsstick-nests of larger birds
Stunning crow-sized cavity-nester in turquoise and chestnut - Europe's most exotic-looking native bird. Sallies for large insects from open perches, performs aerial 'rolling' courtship dives that give the family its name, and migrates 8 000 km each way to winter in southern Africa.
Floor
8" × 8"
Height
12"
Mount
10–25 ft
Wall
0.75"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilationPredator guard
70 mm hole, 8"×8" floor, 12" interior height. Heavy bird - wall thickness 0.75" is the minimum; predator guard around the hole strongly recommended. Pack 1–2" of wood shavings on the floor for the eggs.
open farmland with scattered old treesriver valleys with veteran oakssteppe and dehesa pasturelandMediterranean wood-pasture
Eurasia's smallest tit - a tiny conifer specialist with a black cap, white cheeks, and a diagnostic white stripe running down the back of the neck. Weighs about as much as a US penny.
Eurasia's largest tit, easily told by the bold black stripe down its yellow belly. The width of the male's stripe correlates with social dominance, a tiny billboard for status.
Slate-blue-backed nuthatch of European woodlands that walks head-down on tree trunks like its American cousins. Plasters mud around its nest hole to narrow the entrance to its preferred size.
Glossy-capped little tit of mature oak and beech woods. Nearly identical in plumage to Willow Tit, but separable by its sneeze-like 'pitchew' call and the small, neat black bib. The 'marsh' name is misleading - it's a dry-woodland bird.
The only tit in Europe with a spiky black-and-white crest, unmistakable once you've seen it. A pine-forest specialist with a soft trilling 'perurrrrr' call, found wherever mature Scots pine or Norway spruce stands have been left alone.
25 mm hole. Same body as Coal Tit / Blue Tit. Stuff the floor with 1" of wood shavings - they'll excavate the rest themselves to mimic a rotted stump cavity.
mature conifer forestsScots and Caledonian pinespruce plantations with standing deadwoodwooded gardens with old conifers
Striking black-and-white European flycatcher of mature oak woodland - the male's bold white collar and broad white forehead separate him from his cousin the Pied Flycatcher. A long-distance migrant from Africa that famously favours nest boxes and is the workhorse study species of European behavioural ecology.
The chestnut-crowned, white-collared cousin of the House Sparrow - neat, both-sexes-identical, more rural and arboreal than its city-dwelling relative. UK Red-listed and dramatically declined across western Europe; still common across Asia, where it fills the urban niche House Sparrow occupies in Europe.
28 mm hole, identical body to the Blue Tit / Pied Flycatcher small box. They prefer COLONIAL nesting - install boxes in groups of 3–6 spaced 5–10 m apart on the same row of trees or wall.
traditional farmland with hedgerowsvillage edges and orchardswood-pasture and copsesriverbank tree lines
The most boldly-marked European sparrow - males have a chestnut crown, white cheeks, and a heavily streaked black-and-cream underparts that no other sparrow approaches. A colonial Mediterranean and North African farmland bird that builds huge communal stick nests in tree canopies, and the parent species (with House Sparrow) of the stabilised hybrid Italian Sparrow.
32 mm hole, 5"×5" floor. Mount in groups of 4+ along the same wall or fence - they prospect for sites with visible neighbours. Will also fill the side-cavities of large stick nests (storks, herons), so don't be surprised if a colony forms in a less-obvious spot nearby.
Mediterranean farmland with hedgerowsriver valleys with mature treesvillage edges and old buildingsolive groves and vineyardsstick-nests of larger birds
A cryptically barked little woodpecker that breaks every rule of the family - it doesn't drill, it uses cavities, it eats almost nothing but ants, and when threatened it twists its neck in slow snake-like coils that gave the species its name. A vanished British breeder, a thriving central-European migrant, and one of the most-overlooked nest-box species in Europe.
32 mm hole, 5"×5" floor, 10" interior - slightly deeper than the tit boxes to accommodate the larger clutches (7–12 eggs). Mount 2–4 m up on a mature fruit tree or sun-warmed wall facing east. Don't pack the floor - they nest directly on the wood.
traditional orchards and vineyardswood-pasture with mature treesopen broadleaf woodland edgesvillage gardens with old fruit treesant-rich short pasture
Open-Front Shelf
Open-front nesting shelf, no entrance hole
Worldwide swallow with a deeply forked tail and rich blue-and-orange plumage, almost always nesting under human-made structures now. Builds cup nests from mouthfuls of mud pellets and grass.
Slim Eurasian songbird in black, white, and gray that pumps its long tail constantly as it walks. A cosmopolitan species with many regional plumage subspecies.
Sooty-gray European flycatcher of rocky country and cities, with the same flame-orange tail-shiver as the Common Redstart. Famously colonized bombed-out London after WWII.
Mount on the side of a brick or stone building, ideally with rough-textured surroundings. Black Redstarts prefer the urban-industrial aesthetic, quiet courtyards, factory walls, scrubby brownfield.
Glossy black European thrush with a bright yellow eyering and bill, the bird in 'Sing a Song of Sixpence.' A confident lawn forager and one of Europe's most prolific singers.
Mount in or near dense climber growth (ivy, honeysuckle, climbing rose). Blackbirds tolerate human activity well but want some screening from above and the side.
Stubby-tailed swallow with a blue-black back, white rump, and snow-white underparts that builds enclosed mud-cup nests under eaves. Highly colonial, nests are usually clustered together.
Sleek warm-rust-rumped swallow with a deeply forked tail, range spanning southern Europe through Asia and Africa. Builds enclosed mud nests with a long entrance tunnel.
Tiny European flycatcher with a Robin-like male - sooty grey-brown back, soft orange throat patch, and a constantly twitching white-edged tail. Breeds in mature deciduous forest of central and eastern Europe; winters thousands of miles away on the Indian subcontinent.
Stocky, large-headed European woodland owl whose classic 'twit-twoo' is actually a duet between a female ('twit') and a male ('twoo'). Strictly nocturnal and fiercely territorial.
Floor
10" × 10"
Height
18"
Mount
10–25 ft
Wall
1.0"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
Ventilation
Large chimney-style box. Multi-part print required. Add rough interior texture for owlets climbing out.
Jewel-toned Eurasian kingfisher with an electric-blue back and chestnut underparts that flash along streams. Dives from a perch to spear small fish, swallowing them headfirst back at the perch.
Floor
7" × 7"
Height
10"
Mount
1–3 ft
Wall
1.0"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
Drainage
Requires a long entrance tunnel (~12") angled slightly upward. Very specialist design, best as a multi-part horizontal tube.
Stunning crow-sized cavity-nester in turquoise and chestnut - Europe's most exotic-looking native bird. Sallies for large insects from open perches, performs aerial 'rolling' courtship dives that give the family its name, and migrates 8 000 km each way to winter in southern Africa.
Floor
8" × 8"
Height
12"
Mount
10–25 ft
Wall
0.75"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilationPredator guard
70 mm hole, 8"×8" floor, 12" interior height. Heavy bird - wall thickness 0.75" is the minimum; predator guard around the hole strongly recommended. Pack 1–2" of wood shavings on the floor for the eggs.
open farmland with scattered old treesriver valleys with veteran oakssteppe and dehesa pasturelandMediterranean wood-pasture
Stunning cinnamon, black-and-white cavity nester with a huge erectile crown crest - instantly recognisable across Eurasia and Africa. Famous for its 'hoop-hoop-hoop' call (the source of the name) and for the conservation nest-box programmes that have rebuilt local populations from Switzerland to Spain.
Floor
8" × 8"
Height
12"
Mount
3–12 ft
Wall
0.75"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilationPredator guard
2.5" hole, 8"×8" floor, 12" interior. NO floor shavings - they nest on bare wood, sometimes with a foul-smelling secretion the female uses as predator deterrent. Don't be alarmed by the smell after fledging.
open farmland with scattered treesorchards and vineyardstraditional pasture and meadowwood-pasture and dehesavillage edges with old walls
The biggest tit in Europe and the most retiring - a Marsh-Tit-shaped bird half again as large, in subtle pewter, brown, and chalky white. Lives in dry old oak and rocky hillside woodland from the Balkans to the Levant. Rarely seen at feeders; far more likely heard, with a buzzy, scolding 'che-che-cherrrr'.
Striking black-and-white European flycatcher of mature oak woodland - the male's bold white collar and broad white forehead separate him from his cousin the Pied Flycatcher. A long-distance migrant from Africa that famously favours nest boxes and is the workhorse study species of European behavioural ecology.
The chestnut-crowned, white-collared cousin of the House Sparrow - neat, both-sexes-identical, more rural and arboreal than its city-dwelling relative. UK Red-listed and dramatically declined across western Europe; still common across Asia, where it fills the urban niche House Sparrow occupies in Europe.
28 mm hole, identical body to the Blue Tit / Pied Flycatcher small box. They prefer COLONIAL nesting - install boxes in groups of 3–6 spaced 5–10 m apart on the same row of trees or wall.
traditional farmland with hedgerowsvillage edges and orchardswood-pasture and copsesriverbank tree lines
The most boldly-marked European sparrow - males have a chestnut crown, white cheeks, and a heavily streaked black-and-cream underparts that no other sparrow approaches. A colonial Mediterranean and North African farmland bird that builds huge communal stick nests in tree canopies, and the parent species (with House Sparrow) of the stabilised hybrid Italian Sparrow.
32 mm hole, 5"×5" floor. Mount in groups of 4+ along the same wall or fence - they prospect for sites with visible neighbours. Will also fill the side-cavities of large stick nests (storks, herons), so don't be surprised if a colony forms in a less-obvious spot nearby.
Mediterranean farmland with hedgerowsriver valleys with mature treesvillage edges and old buildingsolive groves and vineyardsstick-nests of larger birds
A cryptically barked little woodpecker that breaks every rule of the family - it doesn't drill, it uses cavities, it eats almost nothing but ants, and when threatened it twists its neck in slow snake-like coils that gave the species its name. A vanished British breeder, a thriving central-European migrant, and one of the most-overlooked nest-box species in Europe.
32 mm hole, 5"×5" floor, 10" interior - slightly deeper than the tit boxes to accommodate the larger clutches (7–12 eggs). Mount 2–4 m up on a mature fruit tree or sun-warmed wall facing east. Don't pack the floor - they nest directly on the wood.
traditional orchards and vineyardswood-pasture with mature treesopen broadleaf woodland edgesvillage gardens with old fruit treesant-rich short pasture
Open-Front Shelf
Open-front nesting shelf, no entrance hole
Tiny European flycatcher with a Robin-like male - sooty grey-brown back, soft orange throat patch, and a constantly twitching white-edged tail. Breeds in mature deciduous forest of central and eastern Europe; winters thousands of miles away on the Indian subcontinent.
Stunning crow-sized cavity-nester in turquoise and chestnut - Europe's most exotic-looking native bird. Sallies for large insects from open perches, performs aerial 'rolling' courtship dives that give the family its name, and migrates 8 000 km each way to winter in southern Africa.
Floor
8" × 8"
Height
12"
Mount
10–25 ft
Wall
0.75"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilationPredator guard
70 mm hole, 8"×8" floor, 12" interior height. Heavy bird - wall thickness 0.75" is the minimum; predator guard around the hole strongly recommended. Pack 1–2" of wood shavings on the floor for the eggs.
open farmland with scattered old treesriver valleys with veteran oakssteppe and dehesa pasturelandMediterranean wood-pasture
Stunning cinnamon, black-and-white cavity nester with a huge erectile crown crest - instantly recognisable across Eurasia and Africa. Famous for its 'hoop-hoop-hoop' call (the source of the name) and for the conservation nest-box programmes that have rebuilt local populations from Switzerland to Spain.
Floor
8" × 8"
Height
12"
Mount
3–12 ft
Wall
0.75"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilationPredator guard
2.5" hole, 8"×8" floor, 12" interior. NO floor shavings - they nest on bare wood, sometimes with a foul-smelling secretion the female uses as predator deterrent. Don't be alarmed by the smell after fledging.
open farmland with scattered treesorchards and vineyardstraditional pasture and meadowwood-pasture and dehesavillage edges with old walls
The biggest tit in Europe and the most retiring - a Marsh-Tit-shaped bird half again as large, in subtle pewter, brown, and chalky white. Lives in dry old oak and rocky hillside woodland from the Balkans to the Levant. Rarely seen at feeders; far more likely heard, with a buzzy, scolding 'che-che-cherrrr'.
The most boldly-marked European sparrow - males have a chestnut crown, white cheeks, and a heavily streaked black-and-cream underparts that no other sparrow approaches. A colonial Mediterranean and North African farmland bird that builds huge communal stick nests in tree canopies, and the parent species (with House Sparrow) of the stabilised hybrid Italian Sparrow.
32 mm hole, 5"×5" floor. Mount in groups of 4+ along the same wall or fence - they prospect for sites with visible neighbours. Will also fill the side-cavities of large stick nests (storks, herons), so don't be surprised if a colony forms in a less-obvious spot nearby.
Mediterranean farmland with hedgerowsriver valleys with mature treesvillage edges and old buildingsolive groves and vineyardsstick-nests of larger birds
Stunning cinnamon, black-and-white cavity nester with a huge erectile crown crest - instantly recognisable across Eurasia and Africa. Famous for its 'hoop-hoop-hoop' call (the source of the name) and for the conservation nest-box programmes that have rebuilt local populations from Switzerland to Spain.
Floor
8" × 8"
Height
12"
Mount
3–12 ft
Wall
0.75"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilationPredator guard
2.5" hole, 8"×8" floor, 12" interior. NO floor shavings - they nest on bare wood, sometimes with a foul-smelling secretion the female uses as predator deterrent. Don't be alarmed by the smell after fledging.
open farmland with scattered treesorchards and vineyardstraditional pasture and meadowwood-pasture and dehesavillage edges with old walls
The biggest tit in Europe and the most retiring - a Marsh-Tit-shaped bird half again as large, in subtle pewter, brown, and chalky white. Lives in dry old oak and rocky hillside woodland from the Balkans to the Levant. Rarely seen at feeders; far more likely heard, with a buzzy, scolding 'che-che-cherrrr'.
The most boldly-marked European sparrow - males have a chestnut crown, white cheeks, and a heavily streaked black-and-cream underparts that no other sparrow approaches. A colonial Mediterranean and North African farmland bird that builds huge communal stick nests in tree canopies, and the parent species (with House Sparrow) of the stabilised hybrid Italian Sparrow.
32 mm hole, 5"×5" floor. Mount in groups of 4+ along the same wall or fence - they prospect for sites with visible neighbours. Will also fill the side-cavities of large stick nests (storks, herons), so don't be surprised if a colony forms in a less-obvious spot nearby.
Mediterranean farmland with hedgerowsriver valleys with mature treesvillage edges and old buildingsolive groves and vineyardsstick-nests of larger birds
The biggest tit in Europe and the most retiring - a Marsh-Tit-shaped bird half again as large, in subtle pewter, brown, and chalky white. Lives in dry old oak and rocky hillside woodland from the Balkans to the Levant. Rarely seen at feeders; far more likely heard, with a buzzy, scolding 'che-che-cherrrr'.
The most boldly-marked European sparrow - males have a chestnut crown, white cheeks, and a heavily streaked black-and-cream underparts that no other sparrow approaches. A colonial Mediterranean and North African farmland bird that builds huge communal stick nests in tree canopies, and the parent species (with House Sparrow) of the stabilised hybrid Italian Sparrow.
32 mm hole, 5"×5" floor. Mount in groups of 4+ along the same wall or fence - they prospect for sites with visible neighbours. Will also fill the side-cavities of large stick nests (storks, herons), so don't be surprised if a colony forms in a less-obvious spot nearby.
Mediterranean farmland with hedgerowsriver valleys with mature treesvillage edges and old buildingsolive groves and vineyardsstick-nests of larger birds
The biggest tit in Europe and the most retiring - a Marsh-Tit-shaped bird half again as large, in subtle pewter, brown, and chalky white. Lives in dry old oak and rocky hillside woodland from the Balkans to the Levant. Rarely seen at feeders; far more likely heard, with a buzzy, scolding 'che-che-cherrrr'.
The most boldly-marked European sparrow - males have a chestnut crown, white cheeks, and a heavily streaked black-and-cream underparts that no other sparrow approaches. A colonial Mediterranean and North African farmland bird that builds huge communal stick nests in tree canopies, and the parent species (with House Sparrow) of the stabilised hybrid Italian Sparrow.
32 mm hole, 5"×5" floor. Mount in groups of 4+ along the same wall or fence - they prospect for sites with visible neighbours. Will also fill the side-cavities of large stick nests (storks, herons), so don't be surprised if a colony forms in a less-obvious spot nearby.
Mediterranean farmland with hedgerowsriver valleys with mature treesvillage edges and old buildingsolive groves and vineyardsstick-nests of larger birds
The biggest tit in Europe and the most retiring - a Marsh-Tit-shaped bird half again as large, in subtle pewter, brown, and chalky white. Lives in dry old oak and rocky hillside woodland from the Balkans to the Levant. Rarely seen at feeders; far more likely heard, with a buzzy, scolding 'che-che-cherrrr'.
The most boldly-marked European sparrow - males have a chestnut crown, white cheeks, and a heavily streaked black-and-cream underparts that no other sparrow approaches. A colonial Mediterranean and North African farmland bird that builds huge communal stick nests in tree canopies, and the parent species (with House Sparrow) of the stabilised hybrid Italian Sparrow.
32 mm hole, 5"×5" floor. Mount in groups of 4+ along the same wall or fence - they prospect for sites with visible neighbours. Will also fill the side-cavities of large stick nests (storks, herons), so don't be surprised if a colony forms in a less-obvious spot nearby.
Mediterranean farmland with hedgerowsriver valleys with mature treesvillage edges and old buildingsolive groves and vineyardsstick-nests of larger birds
Stunning crow-sized cavity-nester in turquoise and chestnut - Europe's most exotic-looking native bird. Sallies for large insects from open perches, performs aerial 'rolling' courtship dives that give the family its name, and migrates 8 000 km each way to winter in southern Africa.
Floor
8" × 8"
Height
12"
Mount
10–25 ft
Wall
0.75"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilationPredator guard
70 mm hole, 8"×8" floor, 12" interior height. Heavy bird - wall thickness 0.75" is the minimum; predator guard around the hole strongly recommended. Pack 1–2" of wood shavings on the floor for the eggs.
open farmland with scattered old treesriver valleys with veteran oakssteppe and dehesa pasturelandMediterranean wood-pasture
Stunning cinnamon, black-and-white cavity nester with a huge erectile crown crest - instantly recognisable across Eurasia and Africa. Famous for its 'hoop-hoop-hoop' call (the source of the name) and for the conservation nest-box programmes that have rebuilt local populations from Switzerland to Spain.
Floor
8" × 8"
Height
12"
Mount
3–12 ft
Wall
0.75"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilationPredator guard
2.5" hole, 8"×8" floor, 12" interior. NO floor shavings - they nest on bare wood, sometimes with a foul-smelling secretion the female uses as predator deterrent. Don't be alarmed by the smell after fledging.
open farmland with scattered treesorchards and vineyardstraditional pasture and meadowwood-pasture and dehesavillage edges with old walls
The biggest tit in Europe and the most retiring - a Marsh-Tit-shaped bird half again as large, in subtle pewter, brown, and chalky white. Lives in dry old oak and rocky hillside woodland from the Balkans to the Levant. Rarely seen at feeders; far more likely heard, with a buzzy, scolding 'che-che-cherrrr'.
The most boldly-marked European sparrow - males have a chestnut crown, white cheeks, and a heavily streaked black-and-cream underparts that no other sparrow approaches. A colonial Mediterranean and North African farmland bird that builds huge communal stick nests in tree canopies, and the parent species (with House Sparrow) of the stabilised hybrid Italian Sparrow.
32 mm hole, 5"×5" floor. Mount in groups of 4+ along the same wall or fence - they prospect for sites with visible neighbours. Will also fill the side-cavities of large stick nests (storks, herons), so don't be surprised if a colony forms in a less-obvious spot nearby.
Mediterranean farmland with hedgerowsriver valleys with mature treesvillage edges and old buildingsolive groves and vineyardsstick-nests of larger birds
A cryptically barked little woodpecker that breaks every rule of the family - it doesn't drill, it uses cavities, it eats almost nothing but ants, and when threatened it twists its neck in slow snake-like coils that gave the species its name. A vanished British breeder, a thriving central-European migrant, and one of the most-overlooked nest-box species in Europe.
32 mm hole, 5"×5" floor, 10" interior - slightly deeper than the tit boxes to accommodate the larger clutches (7–12 eggs). Mount 2–4 m up on a mature fruit tree or sun-warmed wall facing east. Don't pack the floor - they nest directly on the wood.
traditional orchards and vineyardswood-pasture with mature treesopen broadleaf woodland edgesvillage gardens with old fruit treesant-rich short pasture
Stunning crow-sized cavity-nester in turquoise and chestnut - Europe's most exotic-looking native bird. Sallies for large insects from open perches, performs aerial 'rolling' courtship dives that give the family its name, and migrates 8 000 km each way to winter in southern Africa.
Floor
8" × 8"
Height
12"
Mount
10–25 ft
Wall
0.75"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilationPredator guard
70 mm hole, 8"×8" floor, 12" interior height. Heavy bird - wall thickness 0.75" is the minimum; predator guard around the hole strongly recommended. Pack 1–2" of wood shavings on the floor for the eggs.
open farmland with scattered old treesriver valleys with veteran oakssteppe and dehesa pasturelandMediterranean wood-pasture
Stunning cinnamon, black-and-white cavity nester with a huge erectile crown crest - instantly recognisable across Eurasia and Africa. Famous for its 'hoop-hoop-hoop' call (the source of the name) and for the conservation nest-box programmes that have rebuilt local populations from Switzerland to Spain.
Floor
8" × 8"
Height
12"
Mount
3–12 ft
Wall
0.75"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilationPredator guard
2.5" hole, 8"×8" floor, 12" interior. NO floor shavings - they nest on bare wood, sometimes with a foul-smelling secretion the female uses as predator deterrent. Don't be alarmed by the smell after fledging.
open farmland with scattered treesorchards and vineyardstraditional pasture and meadowwood-pasture and dehesavillage edges with old walls
The biggest tit in Europe and the most retiring - a Marsh-Tit-shaped bird half again as large, in subtle pewter, brown, and chalky white. Lives in dry old oak and rocky hillside woodland from the Balkans to the Levant. Rarely seen at feeders; far more likely heard, with a buzzy, scolding 'che-che-cherrrr'.
Stunning crow-sized cavity-nester in turquoise and chestnut - Europe's most exotic-looking native bird. Sallies for large insects from open perches, performs aerial 'rolling' courtship dives that give the family its name, and migrates 8 000 km each way to winter in southern Africa.
Floor
8" × 8"
Height
12"
Mount
10–25 ft
Wall
0.75"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilationPredator guard
70 mm hole, 8"×8" floor, 12" interior height. Heavy bird - wall thickness 0.75" is the minimum; predator guard around the hole strongly recommended. Pack 1–2" of wood shavings on the floor for the eggs.
open farmland with scattered old treesriver valleys with veteran oakssteppe and dehesa pasturelandMediterranean wood-pasture
The biggest tit in Europe and the most retiring - a Marsh-Tit-shaped bird half again as large, in subtle pewter, brown, and chalky white. Lives in dry old oak and rocky hillside woodland from the Balkans to the Levant. Rarely seen at feeders; far more likely heard, with a buzzy, scolding 'che-che-cherrrr'.
The biggest tit in Europe and the most retiring - a Marsh-Tit-shaped bird half again as large, in subtle pewter, brown, and chalky white. Lives in dry old oak and rocky hillside woodland from the Balkans to the Levant. Rarely seen at feeders; far more likely heard, with a buzzy, scolding 'che-che-cherrrr'.
Stunning crow-sized cavity-nester in turquoise and chestnut - Europe's most exotic-looking native bird. Sallies for large insects from open perches, performs aerial 'rolling' courtship dives that give the family its name, and migrates 8 000 km each way to winter in southern Africa.
Floor
8" × 8"
Height
12"
Mount
10–25 ft
Wall
0.75"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilationPredator guard
70 mm hole, 8"×8" floor, 12" interior height. Heavy bird - wall thickness 0.75" is the minimum; predator guard around the hole strongly recommended. Pack 1–2" of wood shavings on the floor for the eggs.
open farmland with scattered old treesriver valleys with veteran oakssteppe and dehesa pasturelandMediterranean wood-pasture
The chestnut-crowned, white-collared cousin of the House Sparrow - neat, both-sexes-identical, more rural and arboreal than its city-dwelling relative. UK Red-listed and dramatically declined across western Europe; still common across Asia, where it fills the urban niche House Sparrow occupies in Europe.
28 mm hole, identical body to the Blue Tit / Pied Flycatcher small box. They prefer COLONIAL nesting - install boxes in groups of 3–6 spaced 5–10 m apart on the same row of trees or wall.
traditional farmland with hedgerowsvillage edges and orchardswood-pasture and copsesriverbank tree lines
The most boldly-marked European sparrow - males have a chestnut crown, white cheeks, and a heavily streaked black-and-cream underparts that no other sparrow approaches. A colonial Mediterranean and North African farmland bird that builds huge communal stick nests in tree canopies, and the parent species (with House Sparrow) of the stabilised hybrid Italian Sparrow.
32 mm hole, 5"×5" floor. Mount in groups of 4+ along the same wall or fence - they prospect for sites with visible neighbours. Will also fill the side-cavities of large stick nests (storks, herons), so don't be surprised if a colony forms in a less-obvious spot nearby.
Mediterranean farmland with hedgerowsriver valleys with mature treesvillage edges and old buildingsolive groves and vineyardsstick-nests of larger birds
A cryptically barked little woodpecker that breaks every rule of the family - it doesn't drill, it uses cavities, it eats almost nothing but ants, and when threatened it twists its neck in slow snake-like coils that gave the species its name. A vanished British breeder, a thriving central-European migrant, and one of the most-overlooked nest-box species in Europe.
32 mm hole, 5"×5" floor, 10" interior - slightly deeper than the tit boxes to accommodate the larger clutches (7–12 eggs). Mount 2–4 m up on a mature fruit tree or sun-warmed wall facing east. Don't pack the floor - they nest directly on the wood.
traditional orchards and vineyardswood-pasture with mature treesopen broadleaf woodland edgesvillage gardens with old fruit treesant-rich short pasture
Stunning crow-sized cavity-nester in turquoise and chestnut - Europe's most exotic-looking native bird. Sallies for large insects from open perches, performs aerial 'rolling' courtship dives that give the family its name, and migrates 8 000 km each way to winter in southern Africa.
Floor
8" × 8"
Height
12"
Mount
10–25 ft
Wall
0.75"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilationPredator guard
70 mm hole, 8"×8" floor, 12" interior height. Heavy bird - wall thickness 0.75" is the minimum; predator guard around the hole strongly recommended. Pack 1–2" of wood shavings on the floor for the eggs.
open farmland with scattered old treesriver valleys with veteran oakssteppe and dehesa pasturelandMediterranean wood-pasture
Stunning cinnamon, black-and-white cavity nester with a huge erectile crown crest - instantly recognisable across Eurasia and Africa. Famous for its 'hoop-hoop-hoop' call (the source of the name) and for the conservation nest-box programmes that have rebuilt local populations from Switzerland to Spain.
Floor
8" × 8"
Height
12"
Mount
3–12 ft
Wall
0.75"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilationPredator guard
2.5" hole, 8"×8" floor, 12" interior. NO floor shavings - they nest on bare wood, sometimes with a foul-smelling secretion the female uses as predator deterrent. Don't be alarmed by the smell after fledging.
open farmland with scattered treesorchards and vineyardstraditional pasture and meadowwood-pasture and dehesavillage edges with old walls
The most boldly-marked European sparrow - males have a chestnut crown, white cheeks, and a heavily streaked black-and-cream underparts that no other sparrow approaches. A colonial Mediterranean and North African farmland bird that builds huge communal stick nests in tree canopies, and the parent species (with House Sparrow) of the stabilised hybrid Italian Sparrow.
32 mm hole, 5"×5" floor. Mount in groups of 4+ along the same wall or fence - they prospect for sites with visible neighbours. Will also fill the side-cavities of large stick nests (storks, herons), so don't be surprised if a colony forms in a less-obvious spot nearby.
Mediterranean farmland with hedgerowsriver valleys with mature treesvillage edges and old buildingsolive groves and vineyardsstick-nests of larger birds
The most boldly-marked European sparrow - males have a chestnut crown, white cheeks, and a heavily streaked black-and-cream underparts that no other sparrow approaches. A colonial Mediterranean and North African farmland bird that builds huge communal stick nests in tree canopies, and the parent species (with House Sparrow) of the stabilised hybrid Italian Sparrow.
32 mm hole, 5"×5" floor. Mount in groups of 4+ along the same wall or fence - they prospect for sites with visible neighbours. Will also fill the side-cavities of large stick nests (storks, herons), so don't be surprised if a colony forms in a less-obvious spot nearby.
Mediterranean farmland with hedgerowsriver valleys with mature treesvillage edges and old buildingsolive groves and vineyardsstick-nests of larger birds
The most boldly-marked European sparrow - males have a chestnut crown, white cheeks, and a heavily streaked black-and-cream underparts that no other sparrow approaches. A colonial Mediterranean and North African farmland bird that builds huge communal stick nests in tree canopies, and the parent species (with House Sparrow) of the stabilised hybrid Italian Sparrow.
32 mm hole, 5"×5" floor. Mount in groups of 4+ along the same wall or fence - they prospect for sites with visible neighbours. Will also fill the side-cavities of large stick nests (storks, herons), so don't be surprised if a colony forms in a less-obvious spot nearby.
Mediterranean farmland with hedgerowsriver valleys with mature treesvillage edges and old buildingsolive groves and vineyardsstick-nests of larger birds
The most boldly-marked European sparrow - males have a chestnut crown, white cheeks, and a heavily streaked black-and-cream underparts that no other sparrow approaches. A colonial Mediterranean and North African farmland bird that builds huge communal stick nests in tree canopies, and the parent species (with House Sparrow) of the stabilised hybrid Italian Sparrow.
32 mm hole, 5"×5" floor. Mount in groups of 4+ along the same wall or fence - they prospect for sites with visible neighbours. Will also fill the side-cavities of large stick nests (storks, herons), so don't be surprised if a colony forms in a less-obvious spot nearby.
Mediterranean farmland with hedgerowsriver valleys with mature treesvillage edges and old buildingsolive groves and vineyardsstick-nests of larger birds
Stunning cinnamon, black-and-white cavity nester with a huge erectile crown crest - instantly recognisable across Eurasia and Africa. Famous for its 'hoop-hoop-hoop' call (the source of the name) and for the conservation nest-box programmes that have rebuilt local populations from Switzerland to Spain.
Floor
8" × 8"
Height
12"
Mount
3–12 ft
Wall
0.75"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilationPredator guard
2.5" hole, 8"×8" floor, 12" interior. NO floor shavings - they nest on bare wood, sometimes with a foul-smelling secretion the female uses as predator deterrent. Don't be alarmed by the smell after fledging.
open farmland with scattered treesorchards and vineyardstraditional pasture and meadowwood-pasture and dehesavillage edges with old walls
Stunning cinnamon, black-and-white cavity nester with a huge erectile crown crest - instantly recognisable across Eurasia and Africa. Famous for its 'hoop-hoop-hoop' call (the source of the name) and for the conservation nest-box programmes that have rebuilt local populations from Switzerland to Spain.
Floor
8" × 8"
Height
12"
Mount
3–12 ft
Wall
0.75"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilationPredator guard
2.5" hole, 8"×8" floor, 12" interior. NO floor shavings - they nest on bare wood, sometimes with a foul-smelling secretion the female uses as predator deterrent. Don't be alarmed by the smell after fledging.
open farmland with scattered treesorchards and vineyardstraditional pasture and meadowwood-pasture and dehesavillage edges with old walls
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India
3 species
Open-Front Shelf
Open-front nesting shelf, no entrance hole
Sleek warm-rust-rumped swallow with a deeply forked tail, range spanning southern Europe through Asia and Africa. Builds enclosed mud nests with a long entrance tunnel.
Jewel-toned Eurasian kingfisher with an electric-blue back and chestnut underparts that flash along streams. Dives from a perch to spear small fish, swallowing them headfirst back at the perch.
Floor
7" × 7"
Height
10"
Mount
1–3 ft
Wall
1.0"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
Drainage
Requires a long entrance tunnel (~12") angled slightly upward. Very specialist design, best as a multi-part horizontal tube.
Stunning cinnamon, black-and-white cavity nester with a huge erectile crown crest - instantly recognisable across Eurasia and Africa. Famous for its 'hoop-hoop-hoop' call (the source of the name) and for the conservation nest-box programmes that have rebuilt local populations from Switzerland to Spain.
Floor
8" × 8"
Height
12"
Mount
3–12 ft
Wall
0.75"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilationPredator guard
2.5" hole, 8"×8" floor, 12" interior. NO floor shavings - they nest on bare wood, sometimes with a foul-smelling secretion the female uses as predator deterrent. Don't be alarmed by the smell after fledging.
open farmland with scattered treesorchards and vineyardstraditional pasture and meadowwood-pasture and dehesavillage edges with old walls
The chestnut-crowned, white-collared cousin of the House Sparrow - neat, both-sexes-identical, more rural and arboreal than its city-dwelling relative. UK Red-listed and dramatically declined across western Europe; still common across Asia, where it fills the urban niche House Sparrow occupies in Europe.
28 mm hole, identical body to the Blue Tit / Pied Flycatcher small box. They prefer COLONIAL nesting - install boxes in groups of 3–6 spaced 5–10 m apart on the same row of trees or wall.
traditional farmland with hedgerowsvillage edges and orchardswood-pasture and copsesriverbank tree lines
A cryptically barked little woodpecker that breaks every rule of the family - it doesn't drill, it uses cavities, it eats almost nothing but ants, and when threatened it twists its neck in slow snake-like coils that gave the species its name. A vanished British breeder, a thriving central-European migrant, and one of the most-overlooked nest-box species in Europe.
32 mm hole, 5"×5" floor, 10" interior - slightly deeper than the tit boxes to accommodate the larger clutches (7–12 eggs). Mount 2–4 m up on a mature fruit tree or sun-warmed wall facing east. Don't pack the floor - they nest directly on the wood.
traditional orchards and vineyardswood-pasture with mature treesopen broadleaf woodland edgesvillage gardens with old fruit treesant-rich short pasture
Eurasia's smallest tit - a tiny conifer specialist with a black cap, white cheeks, and a diagnostic white stripe running down the back of the neck. Weighs about as much as a US penny.
Eurasia's largest tit, easily told by the bold black stripe down its yellow belly. The width of the male's stripe correlates with social dominance, a tiny billboard for status.
Slate-blue-backed nuthatch of European woodlands that walks head-down on tree trunks like its American cousins. Plasters mud around its nest hole to narrow the entrance to its preferred size.
Glossy-capped little tit of mature oak and beech woods. Nearly identical in plumage to Willow Tit, but separable by its sneeze-like 'pitchew' call and the small, neat black bib. The 'marsh' name is misleading - it's a dry-woodland bird.
The chestnut-crowned, white-collared cousin of the House Sparrow - neat, both-sexes-identical, more rural and arboreal than its city-dwelling relative. UK Red-listed and dramatically declined across western Europe; still common across Asia, where it fills the urban niche House Sparrow occupies in Europe.
28 mm hole, identical body to the Blue Tit / Pied Flycatcher small box. They prefer COLONIAL nesting - install boxes in groups of 3–6 spaced 5–10 m apart on the same row of trees or wall.
traditional farmland with hedgerowsvillage edges and orchardswood-pasture and copsesriverbank tree lines
A cryptically barked little woodpecker that breaks every rule of the family - it doesn't drill, it uses cavities, it eats almost nothing but ants, and when threatened it twists its neck in slow snake-like coils that gave the species its name. A vanished British breeder, a thriving central-European migrant, and one of the most-overlooked nest-box species in Europe.
32 mm hole, 5"×5" floor, 10" interior - slightly deeper than the tit boxes to accommodate the larger clutches (7–12 eggs). Mount 2–4 m up on a mature fruit tree or sun-warmed wall facing east. Don't pack the floor - they nest directly on the wood.
traditional orchards and vineyardswood-pasture with mature treesopen broadleaf woodland edgesvillage gardens with old fruit treesant-rich short pasture
Open-Front Shelf
Open-front nesting shelf, no entrance hole
Worldwide swallow with a deeply forked tail and rich blue-and-orange plumage, almost always nesting under human-made structures now. Builds cup nests from mouthfuls of mud pellets and grass.
Slim Eurasian songbird in black, white, and gray that pumps its long tail constantly as it walks. A cosmopolitan species with many regional plumage subspecies.
Sleek warm-rust-rumped swallow with a deeply forked tail, range spanning southern Europe through Asia and Africa. Builds enclosed mud nests with a long entrance tunnel.
Squat, perpetually-frowning small owl of European farmland, Athena's owl, the symbol of Greek wisdom. Often hunts in daylight, perched on fence posts scanning for beetles and worms.
Floor
8" × 8"
Height
12"
Mount
8–20 ft
Wall
1.0"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilation
Often built as a horizontal tunnel (L-shaped). Consider a two-part print: tunnel + nesting chamber.
Jewel-toned Eurasian kingfisher with an electric-blue back and chestnut underparts that flash along streams. Dives from a perch to spear small fish, swallowing them headfirst back at the perch.
Floor
7" × 7"
Height
10"
Mount
1–3 ft
Wall
1.0"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
Drainage
Requires a long entrance tunnel (~12") angled slightly upward. Very specialist design, best as a multi-part horizontal tube.
Stunning cinnamon, black-and-white cavity nester with a huge erectile crown crest - instantly recognisable across Eurasia and Africa. Famous for its 'hoop-hoop-hoop' call (the source of the name) and for the conservation nest-box programmes that have rebuilt local populations from Switzerland to Spain.
Floor
8" × 8"
Height
12"
Mount
3–12 ft
Wall
0.75"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilationPredator guard
2.5" hole, 8"×8" floor, 12" interior. NO floor shavings - they nest on bare wood, sometimes with a foul-smelling secretion the female uses as predator deterrent. Don't be alarmed by the smell after fledging.
open farmland with scattered treesorchards and vineyardstraditional pasture and meadowwood-pasture and dehesavillage edges with old walls
Glossy-capped little tit of mature oak and beech woods. Nearly identical in plumage to Willow Tit, but separable by its sneeze-like 'pitchew' call and the small, neat black bib. The 'marsh' name is misleading - it's a dry-woodland bird.
The chestnut-crowned, white-collared cousin of the House Sparrow - neat, both-sexes-identical, more rural and arboreal than its city-dwelling relative. UK Red-listed and dramatically declined across western Europe; still common across Asia, where it fills the urban niche House Sparrow occupies in Europe.
28 mm hole, identical body to the Blue Tit / Pied Flycatcher small box. They prefer COLONIAL nesting - install boxes in groups of 3–6 spaced 5–10 m apart on the same row of trees or wall.
traditional farmland with hedgerowsvillage edges and orchardswood-pasture and copsesriverbank tree lines
Eurasia's smallest tit - a tiny conifer specialist with a black cap, white cheeks, and a diagnostic white stripe running down the back of the neck. Weighs about as much as a US penny.
Eurasia's largest tit, easily told by the bold black stripe down its yellow belly. The width of the male's stripe correlates with social dominance, a tiny billboard for status.
Slate-blue-backed nuthatch of European woodlands that walks head-down on tree trunks like its American cousins. Plasters mud around its nest hole to narrow the entrance to its preferred size.
Glossy-capped little tit of mature oak and beech woods. Nearly identical in plumage to Willow Tit, but separable by its sneeze-like 'pitchew' call and the small, neat black bib. The 'marsh' name is misleading - it's a dry-woodland bird.
The chestnut-crowned, white-collared cousin of the House Sparrow - neat, both-sexes-identical, more rural and arboreal than its city-dwelling relative. UK Red-listed and dramatically declined across western Europe; still common across Asia, where it fills the urban niche House Sparrow occupies in Europe.
28 mm hole, identical body to the Blue Tit / Pied Flycatcher small box. They prefer COLONIAL nesting - install boxes in groups of 3–6 spaced 5–10 m apart on the same row of trees or wall.
traditional farmland with hedgerowsvillage edges and orchardswood-pasture and copsesriverbank tree lines
A cryptically barked little woodpecker that breaks every rule of the family - it doesn't drill, it uses cavities, it eats almost nothing but ants, and when threatened it twists its neck in slow snake-like coils that gave the species its name. A vanished British breeder, a thriving central-European migrant, and one of the most-overlooked nest-box species in Europe.
32 mm hole, 5"×5" floor, 10" interior - slightly deeper than the tit boxes to accommodate the larger clutches (7–12 eggs). Mount 2–4 m up on a mature fruit tree or sun-warmed wall facing east. Don't pack the floor - they nest directly on the wood.
traditional orchards and vineyardswood-pasture with mature treesopen broadleaf woodland edgesvillage gardens with old fruit treesant-rich short pasture
Open-Front Shelf
Open-front nesting shelf, no entrance hole
Worldwide swallow with a deeply forked tail and rich blue-and-orange plumage, almost always nesting under human-made structures now. Builds cup nests from mouthfuls of mud pellets and grass.
Slim Eurasian songbird in black, white, and gray that pumps its long tail constantly as it walks. A cosmopolitan species with many regional plumage subspecies.
Sleek warm-rust-rumped swallow with a deeply forked tail, range spanning southern Europe through Asia and Africa. Builds enclosed mud nests with a long entrance tunnel.
Jewel-toned Eurasian kingfisher with an electric-blue back and chestnut underparts that flash along streams. Dives from a perch to spear small fish, swallowing them headfirst back at the perch.
Floor
7" × 7"
Height
10"
Mount
1–3 ft
Wall
1.0"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
Drainage
Requires a long entrance tunnel (~12") angled slightly upward. Very specialist design, best as a multi-part horizontal tube.
The most boldly-marked European sparrow - males have a chestnut crown, white cheeks, and a heavily streaked black-and-cream underparts that no other sparrow approaches. A colonial Mediterranean and North African farmland bird that builds huge communal stick nests in tree canopies, and the parent species (with House Sparrow) of the stabilised hybrid Italian Sparrow.
32 mm hole, 5"×5" floor. Mount in groups of 4+ along the same wall or fence - they prospect for sites with visible neighbours. Will also fill the side-cavities of large stick nests (storks, herons), so don't be surprised if a colony forms in a less-obvious spot nearby.
Mediterranean farmland with hedgerowsriver valleys with mature treesvillage edges and old buildingsolive groves and vineyardsstick-nests of larger birds
A cryptically barked little woodpecker that breaks every rule of the family - it doesn't drill, it uses cavities, it eats almost nothing but ants, and when threatened it twists its neck in slow snake-like coils that gave the species its name. A vanished British breeder, a thriving central-European migrant, and one of the most-overlooked nest-box species in Europe.
32 mm hole, 5"×5" floor, 10" interior - slightly deeper than the tit boxes to accommodate the larger clutches (7–12 eggs). Mount 2–4 m up on a mature fruit tree or sun-warmed wall facing east. Don't pack the floor - they nest directly on the wood.
traditional orchards and vineyardswood-pasture with mature treesopen broadleaf woodland edgesvillage gardens with old fruit treesant-rich short pasture
Stunning cinnamon, black-and-white cavity nester with a huge erectile crown crest - instantly recognisable across Eurasia and Africa. Famous for its 'hoop-hoop-hoop' call (the source of the name) and for the conservation nest-box programmes that have rebuilt local populations from Switzerland to Spain.
Floor
8" × 8"
Height
12"
Mount
3–12 ft
Wall
0.75"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilationPredator guard
2.5" hole, 8"×8" floor, 12" interior. NO floor shavings - they nest on bare wood, sometimes with a foul-smelling secretion the female uses as predator deterrent. Don't be alarmed by the smell after fledging.
open farmland with scattered treesorchards and vineyardstraditional pasture and meadowwood-pasture and dehesavillage edges with old walls
The most boldly-marked European sparrow - males have a chestnut crown, white cheeks, and a heavily streaked black-and-cream underparts that no other sparrow approaches. A colonial Mediterranean and North African farmland bird that builds huge communal stick nests in tree canopies, and the parent species (with House Sparrow) of the stabilised hybrid Italian Sparrow.
32 mm hole, 5"×5" floor. Mount in groups of 4+ along the same wall or fence - they prospect for sites with visible neighbours. Will also fill the side-cavities of large stick nests (storks, herons), so don't be surprised if a colony forms in a less-obvious spot nearby.
Mediterranean farmland with hedgerowsriver valleys with mature treesvillage edges and old buildingsolive groves and vineyardsstick-nests of larger birds
A cryptically barked little woodpecker that breaks every rule of the family - it doesn't drill, it uses cavities, it eats almost nothing but ants, and when threatened it twists its neck in slow snake-like coils that gave the species its name. A vanished British breeder, a thriving central-European migrant, and one of the most-overlooked nest-box species in Europe.
32 mm hole, 5"×5" floor, 10" interior - slightly deeper than the tit boxes to accommodate the larger clutches (7–12 eggs). Mount 2–4 m up on a mature fruit tree or sun-warmed wall facing east. Don't pack the floor - they nest directly on the wood.
traditional orchards and vineyardswood-pasture with mature treesopen broadleaf woodland edgesvillage gardens with old fruit treesant-rich short pasture
Stunning cinnamon, black-and-white cavity nester with a huge erectile crown crest - instantly recognisable across Eurasia and Africa. Famous for its 'hoop-hoop-hoop' call (the source of the name) and for the conservation nest-box programmes that have rebuilt local populations from Switzerland to Spain.
Floor
8" × 8"
Height
12"
Mount
3–12 ft
Wall
0.75"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilationPredator guard
2.5" hole, 8"×8" floor, 12" interior. NO floor shavings - they nest on bare wood, sometimes with a foul-smelling secretion the female uses as predator deterrent. Don't be alarmed by the smell after fledging.
open farmland with scattered treesorchards and vineyardstraditional pasture and meadowwood-pasture and dehesavillage edges with old walls
The most boldly-marked European sparrow - males have a chestnut crown, white cheeks, and a heavily streaked black-and-cream underparts that no other sparrow approaches. A colonial Mediterranean and North African farmland bird that builds huge communal stick nests in tree canopies, and the parent species (with House Sparrow) of the stabilised hybrid Italian Sparrow.
32 mm hole, 5"×5" floor. Mount in groups of 4+ along the same wall or fence - they prospect for sites with visible neighbours. Will also fill the side-cavities of large stick nests (storks, herons), so don't be surprised if a colony forms in a less-obvious spot nearby.
Mediterranean farmland with hedgerowsriver valleys with mature treesvillage edges and old buildingsolive groves and vineyardsstick-nests of larger birds
A cryptically barked little woodpecker that breaks every rule of the family - it doesn't drill, it uses cavities, it eats almost nothing but ants, and when threatened it twists its neck in slow snake-like coils that gave the species its name. A vanished British breeder, a thriving central-European migrant, and one of the most-overlooked nest-box species in Europe.
32 mm hole, 5"×5" floor, 10" interior - slightly deeper than the tit boxes to accommodate the larger clutches (7–12 eggs). Mount 2–4 m up on a mature fruit tree or sun-warmed wall facing east. Don't pack the floor - they nest directly on the wood.
traditional orchards and vineyardswood-pasture with mature treesopen broadleaf woodland edgesvillage gardens with old fruit treesant-rich short pasture
Stunning cinnamon, black-and-white cavity nester with a huge erectile crown crest - instantly recognisable across Eurasia and Africa. Famous for its 'hoop-hoop-hoop' call (the source of the name) and for the conservation nest-box programmes that have rebuilt local populations from Switzerland to Spain.
Floor
8" × 8"
Height
12"
Mount
3–12 ft
Wall
0.75"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilationPredator guard
2.5" hole, 8"×8" floor, 12" interior. NO floor shavings - they nest on bare wood, sometimes with a foul-smelling secretion the female uses as predator deterrent. Don't be alarmed by the smell after fledging.
open farmland with scattered treesorchards and vineyardstraditional pasture and meadowwood-pasture and dehesavillage edges with old walls
The most boldly-marked European sparrow - males have a chestnut crown, white cheeks, and a heavily streaked black-and-cream underparts that no other sparrow approaches. A colonial Mediterranean and North African farmland bird that builds huge communal stick nests in tree canopies, and the parent species (with House Sparrow) of the stabilised hybrid Italian Sparrow.
32 mm hole, 5"×5" floor. Mount in groups of 4+ along the same wall or fence - they prospect for sites with visible neighbours. Will also fill the side-cavities of large stick nests (storks, herons), so don't be surprised if a colony forms in a less-obvious spot nearby.
Mediterranean farmland with hedgerowsriver valleys with mature treesvillage edges and old buildingsolive groves and vineyardsstick-nests of larger birds
The most boldly-marked European sparrow - males have a chestnut crown, white cheeks, and a heavily streaked black-and-cream underparts that no other sparrow approaches. A colonial Mediterranean and North African farmland bird that builds huge communal stick nests in tree canopies, and the parent species (with House Sparrow) of the stabilised hybrid Italian Sparrow.
32 mm hole, 5"×5" floor. Mount in groups of 4+ along the same wall or fence - they prospect for sites with visible neighbours. Will also fill the side-cavities of large stick nests (storks, herons), so don't be surprised if a colony forms in a less-obvious spot nearby.
Mediterranean farmland with hedgerowsriver valleys with mature treesvillage edges and old buildingsolive groves and vineyardsstick-nests of larger birds
Stunning cinnamon, black-and-white cavity nester with a huge erectile crown crest - instantly recognisable across Eurasia and Africa. Famous for its 'hoop-hoop-hoop' call (the source of the name) and for the conservation nest-box programmes that have rebuilt local populations from Switzerland to Spain.
Floor
8" × 8"
Height
12"
Mount
3–12 ft
Wall
0.75"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilationPredator guard
2.5" hole, 8"×8" floor, 12" interior. NO floor shavings - they nest on bare wood, sometimes with a foul-smelling secretion the female uses as predator deterrent. Don't be alarmed by the smell after fledging.
open farmland with scattered treesorchards and vineyardstraditional pasture and meadowwood-pasture and dehesavillage edges with old walls
The most boldly-marked European sparrow - males have a chestnut crown, white cheeks, and a heavily streaked black-and-cream underparts that no other sparrow approaches. A colonial Mediterranean and North African farmland bird that builds huge communal stick nests in tree canopies, and the parent species (with House Sparrow) of the stabilised hybrid Italian Sparrow.
32 mm hole, 5"×5" floor. Mount in groups of 4+ along the same wall or fence - they prospect for sites with visible neighbours. Will also fill the side-cavities of large stick nests (storks, herons), so don't be surprised if a colony forms in a less-obvious spot nearby.
Mediterranean farmland with hedgerowsriver valleys with mature treesvillage edges and old buildingsolive groves and vineyardsstick-nests of larger birds
The most boldly-marked European sparrow - males have a chestnut crown, white cheeks, and a heavily streaked black-and-cream underparts that no other sparrow approaches. A colonial Mediterranean and North African farmland bird that builds huge communal stick nests in tree canopies, and the parent species (with House Sparrow) of the stabilised hybrid Italian Sparrow.
32 mm hole, 5"×5" floor. Mount in groups of 4+ along the same wall or fence - they prospect for sites with visible neighbours. Will also fill the side-cavities of large stick nests (storks, herons), so don't be surprised if a colony forms in a less-obvious spot nearby.
Mediterranean farmland with hedgerowsriver valleys with mature treesvillage edges and old buildingsolive groves and vineyardsstick-nests of larger birds
The most boldly-marked European sparrow - males have a chestnut crown, white cheeks, and a heavily streaked black-and-cream underparts that no other sparrow approaches. A colonial Mediterranean and North African farmland bird that builds huge communal stick nests in tree canopies, and the parent species (with House Sparrow) of the stabilised hybrid Italian Sparrow.
32 mm hole, 5"×5" floor. Mount in groups of 4+ along the same wall or fence - they prospect for sites with visible neighbours. Will also fill the side-cavities of large stick nests (storks, herons), so don't be surprised if a colony forms in a less-obvious spot nearby.
Mediterranean farmland with hedgerowsriver valleys with mature treesvillage edges and old buildingsolive groves and vineyardsstick-nests of larger birds
Iridescent, dagger-billed mimic introduced to North America from Europe, now one of the most abundant birds on the continent. Forms massive synchronized aerial flocks, murmurations, at dusk.
Ghostly pale owl with a heart-shaped face and the most sensitive hearing of any tested animal, can catch prey in total darkness. Doesn't hoot; delivers a chilling, drawn-out screech.
Floor
10" × 18"
Height
16"
Mount
12–30 ft
Wall
1.0"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
Stunning cinnamon, black-and-white cavity nester with a huge erectile crown crest - instantly recognisable across Eurasia and Africa. Famous for its 'hoop-hoop-hoop' call (the source of the name) and for the conservation nest-box programmes that have rebuilt local populations from Switzerland to Spain.
Floor
8" × 8"
Height
12"
Mount
3–12 ft
Wall
0.75"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilationPredator guard
2.5" hole, 8"×8" floor, 12" interior. NO floor shavings - they nest on bare wood, sometimes with a foul-smelling secretion the female uses as predator deterrent. Don't be alarmed by the smell after fledging.
open farmland with scattered treesorchards and vineyardstraditional pasture and meadowwood-pasture and dehesavillage edges with old walls
Iridescent, dagger-billed mimic introduced to North America from Europe, now one of the most abundant birds on the continent. Forms massive synchronized aerial flocks, murmurations, at dusk.
Australasian swallow, slate-blue above with a rusty face, named for the cheerful 'welcome' it signals as spring birds return south. Builds open mud-cup nests under bridges and verandas.
Pied black-and-white Australian songbird, not actually a lark or magpie despite the name. Builds a sturdy mud bowl in the fork of a tree and defends it from competitors with shrill duets.
Mount in an open setting near short grass, Magpie-larks need ground to forage on. They are fearless of human activity and will nest right above front doors.
Charismatic Australian black-and-white flycatcher that wags its long tail side to side as it forages. The male sings even at night, especially under a bright moon.
Ghostly pale owl with a heart-shaped face and the most sensitive hearing of any tested animal, can catch prey in total darkness. Doesn't hoot; delivers a chilling, drawn-out screech.
Floor
10" × 18"
Height
16"
Mount
12–30 ft
Wall
1.0"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
Loud, gaudy Australian parrot with a clown-bright palette of blue, green, yellow, and orange. A specialized brush-tipped tongue lets it harvest nectar and pollen from flowering eucalypts.
Floor
7" × 7"
Height
14"
Mount
5–15 ft
Wall
0.75"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilation
Noisy colonial nester. If placing multiple boxes, space them at least 5m apart.
Slender green Australian parrot, the male flushed with vivid yellow and scarlet on the face. Once widespread, now restricted to a narrow strip of river-red-gum forests in NSW and Victoria.
Floor
8" × 8"
Height
18"
Mount
8–20 ft
Wall
1.0"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
DrainageVentilation
Deep box essential, at least 18" internal height. Fill base with wood shavings.
box-ironbark woodlandriverine woodlandfarmland trees
Jewel-toned Eurasian kingfisher with an electric-blue back and chestnut underparts that flash along streams. Dives from a perch to spear small fish, swallowing them headfirst back at the perch.
Floor
7" × 7"
Height
10"
Mount
1–3 ft
Wall
1.0"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
Drainage
Requires a long entrance tunnel (~12") angled slightly upward. Very specialist design, best as a multi-part horizontal tube.
Iridescent, dagger-billed mimic introduced to North America from Europe, now one of the most abundant birds on the continent. Forms massive synchronized aerial flocks, murmurations, at dusk.
Australasian swallow, slate-blue above with a rusty face, named for the cheerful 'welcome' it signals as spring birds return south. Builds open mud-cup nests under bridges and verandas.
Ghostly pale owl with a heart-shaped face and the most sensitive hearing of any tested animal, can catch prey in total darkness. Doesn't hoot; delivers a chilling, drawn-out screech.
Floor
10" × 18"
Height
16"
Mount
12–30 ft
Wall
1.0"
Birdhouse statusCustom build required, outside our standard line. Contact us for a quote.
