Garden Birds: How to Attract Birds to Your Garden - Hardcover

Proctor, Noble S.; Walker, Cyril Alexander; Parmenter, Tim

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0878575928 ISBN 13: 9780878575923

Publisher: Rodale Pr, 1986

Synopsis

An informative handbook of American birds explains how to use landscaping and plantings to provide food and shelter and attract birds to the garden, offers practical tips on food for birds, and includes a directory of one hundred types of birds

About this title

From the Back Cover:

* Features 100 of the most popular American garden birds
* Expert advice on how to make your garden more attractive to birds
* Useful tips for backyard bird watchers-- each bird's favorite foods, nesting habits, and distinctive markings
* Gorgeous illustrations bring each bird to life

"This is a lovely guide to making and maintaining a garden that will attract various species of birds."--Bird Watcher's Digest

"Garden Birds is an immensely informative, beautifully illustrated, comprehensive guide to transforming any garden into a haven for birds."--The Philadelphia Inquirer

From Library Journal:

Garden Birds consists mostly of species accounts of 100 birds. For each there is a page with a mediocre painting, a range map, and a basic description including its habits, food and vegetation preferences, nest, how to attract it, etc. Although an expansive philosophy is commendable it is stretching the imagination to consider a few of these species, such as green-backed heron or red-tailed hawk, as garden birds. Brief introductory sections touch on the bird garden, gardening for birds, food and feeders, and birdhouses. It is a virtue that birds of the East and West are included. There are already several excellent guides to attracting birds, ranging from J. Terres's classic and still useful Songbirds in Your Garden to S. Kress's Audubon Society Guide to Attracting Birds (Scribner, 1985). This latest, by a recognized Connecticut ornithologist, is well enough done but adds little. Henry T. Armistead, Thomas Jefferson University Lib., Philadelphia
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Rodale Pr
• Publication date: 1986
• ISBN 10: 0878575928
• ISBN 13: 9780878575923
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 160