103 Thriving in the City - with Jacinta

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

This episode explores the challenges city birds face and how we can help – with urban ecologist Dr Jacinta Humphrey sharing tips for building bird habitat in backyards, schoolyards, parks and river systems.

Resources

• Jacinta on LinkedIn

• Jacinta on Instagram

• Jacinta on Twitter/X

• Birds in the Burbs summary brochure

• Living with Wildlife by Tanya Loos

• The Secret Lives of Our Urban Birds – ABC iView

• Noisy Miner recording by Marc Anderson - licenced from wildambience.com

Meet the Guest

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

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