{"id":29671,"date":"2021-12-13T15:33:57","date_gmt":"2021-12-13T14:33:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=29671"},"modified":"2021-12-13T15:37:12","modified_gmt":"2021-12-13T14:37:12","slug":"burdock-for-goldfinches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=29671","title":{"rendered":"Burdock for goldfinches"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;ve written a series of articles in 3 parts &#8220;Fuglevennlige planter i hagen&#8221; (Bird friendly plants in the garden) for the magazine of our national bird society (NOF, now Birdlife Norge) called V\u00e5r Fuglefauna (Our Bird Fauna). The first part (6 pages) has already been published (the first two pages are shown below; deliberately blurred text (below).\u00a0<br \/>My most successful plant (genus) supplying bird food in winter has been various species of burdock \/ borre (<em>Arctium<\/em> spp.). The oil rich seeds are very popular with goldfinches (stillits) and greenfinches (gr\u00f8nnfink). This autumn I cut a few plants growing in a different part of the garden and moved them in full view of my kitchen window which allowed me to film a flock of 11 goldfinches yesterday (see below). In the summer, the same plants are popular with various pollinators and for that reason also provide food for other insectivorous birds in summer.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 790px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-29671-1\" width=\"790\" height=\"444\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Goldfinches_and_burdock.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Goldfinches_and_burdock.mp4\">http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Goldfinches_and_burdock.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p><br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-29672 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Fuglevennligeplanter.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"735\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Fuglevennligeplanter.jpg 1000w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Fuglevennligeplanter-300x221.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Fuglevennligeplanter-768x564.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Fuglevennligeplanter-640x470.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><br \/>The article will also be published for members of Norwegian Seed Savers&#8217; guild for &#8220;Insect and Bird Friendly Plants&#8221; in a few months from now. This guild works focuses on plants that are beneficial for maintaining a garden rich in a diversity of insects and birds, whilst still providing food for us!<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-29673 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Article1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"523\" height=\"148\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Article1.jpg 523w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Article1-300x85.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 523px) 100vw, 523px\" \/><br \/><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve written a series of articles in 3 parts &#8220;Fuglevennlige planter i hagen&#8221; (Bird friendly plants in the garden) for the magazine of our national bird society (NOF, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21,3122],"tags":[555,4618,404,591,403,795,2298,4619,351,4616,460,4617],"class_list":["post-29671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds","category-pollinators","tag-arctium","tag-birdlife-norge","tag-burdock","tag-european-goldfinch","tag-greenfinch","tag-gronnfink","tag-kvann","tag-norsk-ornitologisk-forening","tag-norwegian-seed-savers","tag-plants-for-birds","tag-stillits","tag-var-fuglefauna"],"views":3309,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29671"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29678,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29671\/revisions\/29678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}