The Backyard Bird-Lover's Guide Attracting,

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.

Jan Mahnken, author of The Backyard Bird-Lover's Guide, has written for Country Journal, Farmstead, Countryside, and New England Farm Journal. She lives in western Massachusetts and has loved birds since the age of thirteen.

Foreword
Feeding and Housing the Birds
Why Feed the Birds?
The Initial Plunge
Bird Feeders and Food
The Water Situation
Providing Nesting Boxes
Gardening's for the Birds
The Nesting Cycle
Sharing the Earth
Territory
Courtship
Bird Song
Nesting
The Egg
Nestlings and Fledglings
Preparing for Winter
Individual Birds
Getting to Know the Birds
Appendix
Who Eats What Habitat Requirements
All About Eggs Who Incubates the Eggs For
Further Reading
Index
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The Backyard Bird-Lover's Guide Attracting, Nesting, Feeding

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