Backyard Birding FROM THE PUBLISHER
One of life's greatest pleasures is to sit in a beautiful garden listening to and observing birds.
Backyard Birding will enhance that pleasure. It provides guidance on identifying birds by their appearance, behavior, and song, and explains ways to design gardens and grow plants that will attract a wide variety of birds. Here is all the information an aspiring birder gardener will need to further their love and enjoyment of the natural world. Lavishly illustrated with drawings and photographs, this authoritative volume provides absorbing historical information, and profiles of ornithologists and gardeners of renown. It will be a source of reference to return to again and again.