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Safe Plants for Birds

It is nice to have plants in your home, but if you have a bird that might have an opportunity to chew on the plant, you have to make sure that eating the plant will not harm your bird.

To come up with this list, I looked at a dozen safe and unsafe plant lists. I only included the plants that were on all or almost all the safe plant lists and were not on any of the unsafe plant lists. I am not an expert in this matter at all, but am relying on the information found online.

I am just listing the common names of the plants. Some of these plants are indoor plants and some are grown outdoors.

The plants followed by a * were found on every safe plant list I looked at. The rest of them were found on most safe plant lists.

African Violet *
Aloe *
Baby's Tears
Bamboo
Bird Nest Fern
Begonia
Boston Fern *
Bougainvillea
Bromeliads
Chickweed *
Cissus Kangaroo Vine
Coffee Tree
Coleus
Corn Plant *
Creeping Fig
Dandelion
Date Palm
Dogwood
Donkey Tail
Dracena
Dragon Tree
Fan Palm
Fiddleleaf Fig
Gardenia
Grape Ivy
Hen and Chicks
Hibiscus
Jade Plant
Kalanchoe
Magnolia *
Maidenhair Fern *
Manzanita *
Marigold
Monkey Plant
Mother-in-Laws Tongue/Snake Plant
Nasturtium *
Natal Plum
Nerve Plant
Norfolk Island Pine
Passion Flower Vine
Peperomia
Petunia
Pittosporum
Prayer Plant *
Purple Passion
Rose
Rubber Plant
Sensitive Plant
Spider/Airplane Plant *
Swedish Ivy
Wandering Jew
Yucca
Zebra Plant

Some plants, like the Mother in Laws Tongue or Snake Plant surprised me because I always thought it would not be in the good list. Maybe it is just that it has a bitter taste, that many birds would not bother eating.

If you are bringing in any of the outdoor plants for you bird to play on or eat, please be sure they have not been sprayed with any chemicals (fertilizer, weed killer, bug spray, etc).


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