Everything You Need to Know about Birding and Backyard Bird AttractionHoughton Mifflin Harcourt, 1998 - 272 páginas With equal measures of wit, scientific wisdom, and homespun common sense, Alan Pistorius makes his lifelong love of birds come alive for anyone who wants to take up birding as a hobby or merely gain more pleasure from the birds around the home, cottage, or camp. With diagrams, illustrations, and full-color photographs throughout, this is a completely revised and updated version of Pistorius's popular Country Journal Book of Birding and Bird Attraction. The author advises readers on how to make their back yards havens for local birds, what constitutes proper food for birds, what to look for in well-designed feeders, how to build appropriate houses, and how to make baths that birds will actually use. Pistorius's style is lighthearted and humorous, and he's never averse to directing a little gentle humor at the foibles of fellow devotees when they begin to take themselves and their hobby too seriously. |
Contenido
INTRODUCTION | 8 |
Feeders from the Ground | 32 |
The Christmas Count | 53 |
CHAPTER IV | 78 |
CHAPTER V | 134 |
CHAPTER VI | 160 |
CHAPTER VII | 192 |
CHAPTER VIII | 212 |
CHAPTER IX | 242 |
Términos y frases comunes
Atlas attract Audubon barn barn owls barn swallows berries Big Day birch birdbox birders birdhouse birds birdseed bluebird breeding broad-wings cavity nesters cedar chickadees Christmas Count common corn cover dioecious dogwood downy woodpecker drupes eastern fall/winter feeding feet field finches flight flock flowers flycatcher flyways fruits gamebirds grosbeaks ground grouse habitat hairy woodpecker hardy hawks head hole house sparrows hummingbird inches insects look mammals maple migration migratory mimics moist to dry nest niger North American Northeast northern nuthatches peanuts perches pine plants predators probably purple martin record road robin roost ruby-throated hummingbird ruffed grouse season seed shade shorebirds shrubs singing songbirds South species spring spruce squirrels starlings suet summer sunflower tanager thrushes tree swallows tube feeder typical variety vireo warbler watch waxwing weather wild wildlife winter wood duck woodpecker wren young Zone