This informative books shows Midwestern gardeners how to create outstanding bird habitats with native plants that offer food, cover, and nesting sites for birds, and is illustrated with helpful photographs and landscape plans. Features include: Instructions and plans for creating nine different habitat gardens for hummingbirds, bluebirds, winter birds, migrant birds, shrubland birds, prairie birds, woodland birds, wetland birds, and water birds. Photos and landscape plans of successful bird gardens in the Midwest -recommended plant species for each type of bird garden and information on the birds they attract Details on visual characteristics and cultivation of recommended plant species, along with their native ranges in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Ohio, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, and Wisconsin Advice about nest boxes, bird baths, misters, perches and other garden features to attract birds Guidance for maintaining your naturally landscaped bird gardens.
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This excellent guide to bird gardening in the Midwestern states provides abundant detail about how to improve the quality of backyard habitats through examples and practical plans. Mariette Nowak demonstrates that even small steps can improve local bird habitat in meaningful ways. More regions need detailed handbooks such as this. --Stephen Kress, Vice-President of Bird conservation, National Audubon Society
This book will interest many people, who will benefit from understanding the connection between plants, and birds. It provides a guide to land owners with an interest in helping bird and makes a connection between urbanites and nature. --Randy Hoffman, Bureau of Endangered Resources, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources and author of Wisconsin's Natural Communities
This guide to landscaping for birds is as much a guide to reconnecting people with the natural world as it is to providing habitat for birds. The great detail of information on plant/bird relationships will go a long way to benefiting birds and native plant species, as well as a multitude of other wildlife. --Jim Steffen, Ecologist, Chicago Botanic Garden
This book will interest many people, who will benefit from understanding the connection between plants, and birds. It provides a guide to land owners with an interest in helping bird and makes a connection between urbanites and nature. --Randy Hoffman, Bureau of Endangered Resources, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources and author of Wisconsin's Natural Communities
This guide to landscaping for birds is as much a guide to reconnecting people with the natural world as it is to providing habitat for birds. The great detail of information on plant/bird relationships will go a long way to benefiting birds and native plant species, as well as a multitude of other wildlife. --Jim Steffen, Ecologist, Chicago Botanic Garden
About the Author
Mariette Nowak was the director of the Wehr Nature Center of the Milwaukee County Parks system (Wisconsin) for eighteen years. Now retired, she is active with the organization Wild Ones: Native Plants, Natural Landscapes and is a board member of the Wisconsin Society for Ornithology.
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This review is from: Birdscaping in the Midwest: A Guide to Gardening with Native Plants to Attract Birds (Paperback)
This is a great book for Wisconsin birders. It offers lots of info on bird-friendly plants and landscaping techniques. It would be great for other Midwest states, too. It really packages a lot of info together.
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Exellent Book,
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This review is from: Birdscaping in the Midwest: A Guide to Gardening with Native Plants to Attract Birds (Paperback)
This book is well worth reading for anyone creating a garden in the midwest and enjoys nature. The author does an excellent job of driving home ideas that are skimped over in other books. The book also includes a number of example gardens and describes creating a garden that corresponds to the major habitat types found in the midwest and which species such a garden can be expected to attract.
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By ReBecca (Rockford, IL) - See all my reviews
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The only thing more I could ask for is more suggestions for the arrangements (with diagrams) of native plant-life and perhaps specific types of plants that specific types of birds tend to enjoy. The photos are beautiful and inspiring, and the information is useful, though it still recommends visiting plant nurseries and wild bird stores to get expert advice. If I could find those experts, I wouldn't have waited forever to get this book in the mail. ;)
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