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The Backyard Bird-Lover's Guide: Attracting, Nesting, Feeding de Jan Mahnken

The Backyard Bird-Lover's Guide: Attracting, Nesting, Feeding

Autor Jan Mahnken Editat de Gwen Steege Ilustrat de Jeffrey C. Domm
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 dec 1995

Whether you d like to wake up to a cheery robin s birdsong or see hummingbirds in your garden, Jan Mahnken has you covered. In this colorful reference book, you ll find simple tips to attract, feed, and observe 135 American bird species. Mahnken provides information on territory, courtship, nesting, parenting, and much more, while Jeffrey C. Domm brings each species to life with stunningly detailed paintings."

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780882669274
ISBN-10: 0882669273
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 176 x 252 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.79 kg
Editura: Storey Publishing LLC

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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, Laubach of the Massachusetts Audubon Society, The Backyard Bird-Lover's Guide features a reference section with closeups of more than 135 species and their feeding and nesting habits. And there's much more:

-- A guide to feeders and food, and who eats what

-- A chapter on providing nestboxes for bluebirds, martins, owls, woodpeckers, wrens, wood ducks, and more

-- How to create gardens that attract birds

-- Tips on deterring cats, squirrels, and undesirable birds

-- How to identify nests and eggs - and what to do with a fallen nestling

-- Details of the family life of birds

Notă biografică

Cuprins

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