Title: The Hummingbird Book: The Complete Guide to Attracting, Identifying, and Enjoying Hummingbirds
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company, Boston
Publication Date: 1989
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0316817155
ISBN 13: 9780316817158
Binding: Softcover
Edition: First Edition; Second Printing.
Condition: Very Good
Weight: 1.09 pounds

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Synopsis

Attract amazing hummingbirds to your backyard! With this comprehensive, beautifully illustrated guide, you'll find it easy to attract these tiny jewel-like birds to your own yard.

With this comprehensive, beautifully illustrated guide, you'll find it easy to attract these tiny, jewel-like birds to your own yard. The Stokes Hummingbird Book provides all the information you need to bring hummingbirds up close, identify them, and understand their fascinating and varied behavior.

The book includes:

Range maps and full-color photographs to help you identify and locate hummingbirds
Information on how to select the proper feeders, what to use in them, when to put them up, and when to take them down
Advice on what flowers to plant to attract hummingbirds in your part of the country
Amazing facts about hummingbirds, such as how fast they fly and how much they weigh
Guidelines for photographing hummingbirds
Complete information on hummingbird behavior, including flight displays, breeding habits, and feeding
A special section on attracting orioles, with photographs and behavior guides for each of the eight species found in North America
A resource list for hummingbird supplies

About the Author

Donald and Lilian Stokes are widely recognized as America's foremost authorities on birds and nature. They are the hosts of the PBS series BirdWatch with Don and Lilian Stokes. Their books include the bestselling Stokes Field Guide to Birds (Eastern and Western editions).

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