How Do You Prevent Starlings From Using Wood Duck Bird Houses?
Starlings are aggressive birds that will force other birds out of their boxes and nests during mating and nesting season. If you are trying to encourage wood ducks to live on your property, then you may have to take some pretty serious steps against starlings to keep them out of your wood duck boxes. Fortunately, with some relatively simply design steps you can make these boxes very unappealing for starlings while retaining their attractiveness to wood ducks. Attach starling boxes to the wood duck boxes. If the starlings can use boxes that are designed to make them happy, then they will. The wood ducks will not use these boxes because they are unattractive to that species. You can mount the starling boxes next to the wood duck boxes, or even on top. Generally, starling boxes are mounted vertically, with the sides being much longer than the bottom and top. The openings tend to be large, round openings rather than small, oval openings. They also have a perch of at least 2 inches so that
