Hosting the Birds: How to Attract Birds to Nest in Your Yard - Softcover

Mahnken, Jan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0882665251 ISBN 13: 9780882665252

Publisher: Garden Way Pub Co, 1989

Synopsis

Provides information of the territorial behavior, interaction, songs, and nesting and feeding habits of more than 170 species of birds

About this title

From Publishers Weekly:

"No one who enjoys feeding birds needs to be given a reason to do this: it's interesting. If you need more motivation, however, try thinking of bird feeding as a way of repaying a debt to fellow inhabitants of the planet." This guide, intended for casual bird-watchers eager to learn more about the birds passing through their urban, suburban or country yards or gardens, discusses the nesting cycle, courtship, territories, parenthood and theories of migration and outlines breeding habits (i.e., incubation and nesting periods) of 175 species. However, beginning birders would have benefited from more information on the exact times of year when mating begins and on notes on coloring. And the book provides relatively little advice on how to lure birds by strategic landscaping, plant selection and building and installing feeders and nest boxes. Still, the author's self-effacing enthusiasm is endearing: "Though it's probably superfluous to fall into raptures and rhapsodies on the perfection of Nature and the absolute marvel that an egg is, I must admit that I continue to be amazed." Mahnken and Knauf previously collaborated on Feeding the Birds . Illustrations not seen by PW.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Library Journal:

There are many good books on attracting birds, such as Stephen W. Kress's Audubon Society Guide to Attracting Birds ( LJ 2/1/86). This is not one. It is a miscellany of information on wild birds available with greater detail and authority in many other sources, such as Paul R. Ehrlich's Birder's Handbook: A Field Guide to the Natural History of North American Birds (S. & S., 1988). Mahnken's title and subtitle are misleading; little of his book concerns attracting birds. It would be a miracle if some of the birds described here (e.g., the bald eagle) frequented any reader's yard. The bibliography is a curious hodge podge of inappropriate titles with some good books. Not recommended.
- Henry T. Armistead, Thomas Jefferson Univ. Lib., Philadelphia
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Garden Way Pub Co
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0882665251
• ISBN 13: 9780882665252
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 208