The Backyard Bird-Lover's Guide: Attracting, Nesting, Feeding
An information-packed reference to attracting, feeding, and appreciating a wide variety of birds in your yard.\ Whether you want to attract hummingbirds to your garden or bluebirds to your nesting box, this colorful guide is brimming with information on attracting and understanding backyard birds. You'll learn how to feed them, house them, provide nesting materials, and keep them coming back year after year.\ Along with beautiful, detailed paintings by Jeffrey C. Domm and a foreword by Ren,...
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The ultimate reference guide for everyone who loves birds! This gorgeously illustrated volume is brimming with information about attracting, enjoying, and understanding 135 of North America’s most common species. You’ll learn how to feed them, house them, provide nesting materials, and keep them coming back year after year.More than half of the book is dedicated to in-depth profiles of individual species with detailed, accurate paintings of birds and information about their habits, size, breeding range, winter range, habitat, incubation and nesting periods, preferred foods, and much more.
Foreword I FEEDING AND HOUSING THE BIRDS 1 Why Feed the Birds? 2 The Initial Plunge 3 Bird Feeders and Food 4 The Water Situation 5 Providing Nesting Boxes 6 Gardening's for the Birds II THE NESTING CYCLE 7 Sharing the Earth 8 Territory 9 Courtship 10 Bird Song 11 Nesting 12 The Egg 13 Nestlings and Fledglings 14 Preparing for Winter III INDIVIDUAL BIRDS 15 Getting to Know the Birds APPENDIX Who Eats What Habitat Requirements All About Eggs Who Incubates the Eggs For Further Reading Index
