This guide shows how an ordinary yard can become a wonderland of songbirds by simply adding colorful native plants designed to attract many varieties of birds. 120 color photos & 60 illustrations.
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Cover, shelter, nesting sites, food, and water are the five basic things that birds need. Birdscaping tells how to provide them in your yard. A directory lists 64 species of birds, including woodpeckers, hummingbirds, jays, chickadees, wrens, warblers, finches, and cardinals. Each entry has a photograph of the bird and one of Adams' drawings of the bird in a favorite native plant (a summer tanager nesting in a flowering dogwood, for example). Each entry also includes the bird's description, habits, and song, its preferred habitat, breeding behavior, nesting style, and diet. A range map is provided, along with data on the bird's breeding, migration, and winter ranges. There is also a list of plants that provide food and shelter for the bird. A separate plant directory gives more general information on 100 trees, shrubs, annuals, perennials, vines, and grasses that attract birds. The section "Growing Native Plants" covers such basics as soil care, planting, propagation, watering, mulching, fertilizing, and pest and disease control. This valuable guide will help turn any yard into a sanctuary for a variety of birds. George Cohen
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25 of 28 people found the following review helpful:
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This review is from: Birdscaping Your Garden: A Practical Guide To Backyard Birds And The Plants That Attract Them (Paperback)
Want to "reform" your backyard? This book is a great place to start. A wonderful primer on birds and plants, this book is also a solid reference book. I highly recommend it for anyone who is interested in, or is serious about, creating a great place for the birds and the bees to hang out.
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This review is from: Birdscaping Your Garden: A Practical Guide to Backyard Birds and the Plants That Attract Them (Hardcover)
A fabulous book for beginning birders, Birdscaping your Garden acts as an all-purpose guide to identification, habitat, and feeding habits. Identification is aided by a short description as well as a black and white sketch and a full-color photo. Each two-page spread discusses one bird with details including migration and winter range, breeding range and behavior, nesting, and a short list of plants to use for bird food. The feeding guide is garden and plant focused (rather than the typical hanging birdfeeder type focus) with the idea of using native plantings to attract and feed birds. Purchased seed options are rarely mentioned. As organized and helpful as the individual page layouts are, the overall organization of the book is lacking. The reader is forced to browse through all 64 birds in the directory section to find what is being sought since the birds are not listed in any particular order. The book's lack of regional focus is also limiting and reduces the number of relevant entries to about 30 if you live in New Jersey, for example. The final section of the book is a plant directory which is organized alphabetically by scientific name. The section includes photos and general cultural guidelines for plants that will shelter and feed the birds previously discussed. A list of "Birds Attracted" within the individual plant descriptions is a nice cross-reference with the bird directory section. The dichotomy of the book should not put you off - it is clearly written and useful despite its overall lack of organization. There is no doubt it is valuable for creating a native, bird-friendly garden.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
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Fantastic book!,
By merrymousies (Waterford, VA USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Birdscaping Your Garden: A Practical Guide To Backyard Birds And The Plants That Attract Them (Paperback)
I first found this book at our local library and when I went to photocopy "a few pages" I realized I was about the copy the whole book so I decided to just buy the book for myself. It's terrific! It goes through all sorts of species of bushes and trees, indicates what type of wildlife is attracted to it, how they use it, etc. It has good pictures too. A real must have for the backyard gardener who wants to have some wildlife in their life. Highly highly recommended
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How do you turn your yard into an inviting sanctuary where birds will come to nest, raise their families and seek shelter for the winter? Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
secure nesting sites, wild sweet crab, western raspberry, valuable shelter, breeding range, common blackberry, brown towhee, young leave the nest, quinque folia, other common names, common flicker, soaptree yucca, black phoebe, pale blue eggs, hooded oriole, breeding behavior, finer grasses, female constructs, gray catbird, red mulberry, winter range, botanical name, percent insects, northern oriole, desert willow Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Native Distribution, North America, United States, British Columbia, Baja California, Gulf Coast, Nova Scotia, New England, Cape May, North Dakota, Rocky Mountains, South America, Plant Directory, Nesting Both, West Virginia, Great Plains, West Indies, Gulf of Mexico, South Carolina, Feeding Habits Insects, Great Lakes, American Ornithologists Union, East Coast, Habitat These, Sierra Nevadas New!
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How do you turn your yard into an inviting sanctuary where birds will come to nest, raise their families and seek shelter for the winter? Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
secure nesting sites, wild sweet crab, western raspberry, valuable shelter, breeding range, common blackberry, brown towhee, young leave the nest, quinque folia, other common names, common flicker, soaptree yucca, black phoebe, pale blue eggs, hooded oriole, breeding behavior, finer grasses, female constructs, gray catbird, red mulberry, winter range, botanical name, percent insects, northern oriole, desert willow Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Native Distribution, North America, United States, British Columbia, Baja California, Gulf Coast, Nova Scotia, New England, Cape May, North Dakota, Rocky Mountains, South America, Plant Directory, Nesting Both, West Virginia, Great Plains, West Indies, Gulf of Mexico, South Carolina, Feeding Habits Insects, Great Lakes, American Ornithologists Union, East Coast, Habitat These, Sierra Nevadas New!
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- Winter Range by Alan Le May on 10 pages
- The Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Birds: Eastern Region by John Bull in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Growing and Propagating Wild Flowers: An East-to-Use Guide for All Gardeners by Harry R. Phillips in Back Matter
- Audubon Society Handbook for Birders by Stephen Kress in Back Matter
- Wild Flowers (Piccolo Spotters) (Piccolo Books) by Bob Press in Back Matter
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- 1,001 Ingenious Gardening Ideas: New, Fun and Fabulous That Will Change the Way You Garden - Forever! (Rodale Garden Book) by Deborah L. Martin in Back Matter
- Great Garden Formulas: The Ultimate Book of Mix-It-Yourself Concoctions for Your Garden by Joan Benjamin in Back Matter
- Natural Landscaping: Gardening with Nature to Create a Backyard Paradise by Sally Roth in Back Matter
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