Backyard Birding and Butterfly Gardening

You can enjoy dozens of species of birds and butterflies from the comfort of your own backyard! With 350 full-color photos and concise, informative text, this book helps you maximize your home wildlife experiences and attract a wider variety of birds and butterflies. Make the right choices the first time—and avoid costly mistakes. 

• Attract particular species by choosing the right foods, plants, trees, water sources, and nesting materials.
• Create a garden, region by region, that will be an oasis for birds and butterflies.
• Instantly recognize and attract the birds you are most likely to see in your region.
• Encourage birds and butterflies to nest and breed right in your own backyard.
• Identify species by field marks, plumage, and more.
• Make your yard the hummingbird capital of the neighborhood.
• Fend off predators and other uninvited backyard guests.

A birder since she spotted her first kingfisher in Girl Scout day camp, Randi Minetor has traveled the country to rack up a North American life list of more than 550 species from Florida to Alaska.  She is the author of Falcon Guides' new Birdfinding series, with books including Birding New England and Birding Florida, and the soon to be released Birding Texas. In her home state of New York, she is currently President of the Rochester Birding Association, and she participates in birding science endeavors including the 2020-2024 NY State Breeding Bird Atlas project, the Nature Conservancy's lakeshore songbird migration study, and the annual Christmas Bird County for more than twenty years. She is a regional editor and contributing writer to North American Birds, and she writes for Birding Magazine. Her work has also appeared in Bird Watcher's Digest and Real Dirt, the newsletter of the Garden Clubs of America. 
Nic Minetor has provided photography for more than 30 books published by Globe Pequot Press and Falcon Guides. He is a full-time lighting designer/director for theatre, film and TV, currently serving as resident lighting designer for Eastman Opera Theatre in Rochester, NY, as well as for productions at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf, the Lakes Area Music Festival in Minnesota, and Blackfriars Theatre. He served for 14 years as the lighting director for the PBS television series "Second Opinion."