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. 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.
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113 of 113 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
a guide book for the hummer lover,
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This review is from: The Hummingbird Book: The Complete Guide to Attracting, Identifying, and Enjoying Hummingbirds (Paperback)
A great book for anyone who wants to attract and feed hummingbirds, it's packed with all the basic information you'll need, starting with choosing the right feeder for your area, the sugar solution to put in it, and the maintenance and cleaning of it, which the Stokes say: "We can't emphasize enough how important it is to take feeder maintenance seriously", as any mold or bacteria can be "risking the health, and possibly the lives", of these jeweled wonders of the bird family...and they show you the easy steps to be taken to keep the feeders clean.There are also 6 pages on orioles, who can be seen sometimes at hummer feeders. It gives a "quick guide" to 8 species of these beautiful birds, with lovely photos to help identification. It also shows how one can set up feeders specifically for orioles, and the sugar solution to use, which is slightly different from that of the hummer mixture. Chapters on the "Hummingbird Habitat" and "Gardening", give you a list of plants and flowers that hummers like the most, by geographical region. "Amazing Facts" truly is amazing. Among the many fascinating things you'll learn is that their heart can beat 1,260 times per minute, but can sometimes slow down to 50 beats per minute at night to conserve energy. There are other chapters on "Myths", "Baby Hummingbirds", and "Photographing Hummingbirds". Nearly half the book is devoted to the identification of the different species, with photos, maps, behaviour patterns, and much more. Once you've identified your visitors, you'll get to know the idiosyncrasies of the species, and it's sure to add to the joy and delight of watching these miraculous little creatures.
88 of 100 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
The Stokes stroke their stuff...,
By Voni L Kiebel (Northern Indiana) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Hummingbird Book: The Complete Guide to Attracting, Identifying, and Enjoying Hummingbirds (Paperback)
I was so impressed with the depth of the study, and the over-all content of this book, and yet it is very comprehensive. I am a new Hummer-lover, and I definitely recommend this colorful book to the newcomer because it is so thorough. I was able to easily identify the species that visit my deck every morning, and discover the variety of flowers they prefer, and even predict their behavior. This book is a veritible wealth of information on common and rare Hummers that has made me appreciate these beautiful and delicate little creatures even more that I did before! What an awesome Creator we have!
20 of 20 people found the following review helpful:
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A BOOK WELL WORTH OWNING - VERY HELPFUL!,
This review is from: The Hummingbird Book: The Complete Guide to Attracting, Identifying, and Enjoying Hummingbirds (Paperback)
This work, like most of those by Donald and Lillian Stokes is well written, informative, useful and simply a joy to read. The subject here, of course, is Hummingbirds. The authors also do give us several very nice pages (6) addressing orioles, a common visitor to feeders. The photographs in this book are quite good and the authors actually tell and show us their technique of photographing these amazing creatures.
Probably the most important chapter in this work is the one covering the types, maintenance and placement of the hummingbird feeder. Some of the other subjects well covered are creating Hummingbird habitat, Hummingbird gardening, nesting habits, flight behavior, amazing facts, Hummingbird myths and very importantly, the identification of these little creatures which are found here in North America. Each species is given due coverage and no area of the country is left out. I enjoyed the section devoted to the various kinds of flowers which are Hummingbird friendly. The Stokes have given us specific information here, seldom found in other volumes. As to the identification of the various species found here, the authors have given us a great over view of the eight major species, their range, habits, migration patterns and some wonderful photographs to help in identification. The hardcore birder will of course want additional field guides, as several species, usually found in small pockets along our southern border are not covered. This is not major flaw though, as most individuals that are very much into the hobby of birding, already have a trunk full of guides. The authors have also included a very nice section on other resources, books, videos, companies that provide feeders, etc. All in all, this is a very nice book to own and certainly one that you will want to add to your collection
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We will never forget our first look at a hummingbird, many years ago. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
fledgling phase, dive display, photographing hummingbirds, nestling phase, shuttle display, hummingbird behavior, hummingbird habitat, baby hummingbirds, downy fibers, other hummingbirds, hummingbird flowers, purple iridescence, rufous hummingbird, many hummingbirds, red food dye, hummingbird feeders, breeding range Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Breeding Period, North American, New Mexico, United States, Nest-Building Materials, Migration Northward, West Coast, May Southward, July Nest, Hummingbird Gardening, Gulf of Mexico, July Male Breeding Territory, Unknown Nestling, Perky-Pet Products, Unknown Range, Texas Identification, Calliope Hummingbird New!
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We will never forget our first look at a hummingbird, many years ago. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
fledgling phase, dive display, photographing hummingbirds, nestling phase, shuttle display, hummingbird behavior, hummingbird habitat, baby hummingbirds, downy fibers, other hummingbirds, hummingbird flowers, purple iridescence, rufous hummingbird, many hummingbirds, red food dye, hummingbird feeders, breeding range Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Breeding Period, North American, New Mexico, United States, Nest-Building Materials, Migration Northward, West Coast, May Southward, July Nest, Hummingbird Gardening, Gulf of Mexico, July Male Breeding Territory, Unknown Nestling, Perky-Pet Products, Unknown Range, Texas Identification, Calliope Hummingbird New!
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- Stokes Guide to Bird Behavior, Volume 1 by Donald Stokes in Front Matter, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- A Guide to Nature in Winter by Donald Stokes in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- A Guide to Enjoying Wildflowers (Stokes Nature Guides) by Donald Stokes in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Stokes Guide to Animal Tracking and Behavior by Donald Stokes in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- A Guide to Amphibians and Reptiles (Stokes Nature Guides) by Thomas F. Tyning in Front Matter, and Back Matter
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