The Hummingbird Book: The Complete Guide to Attracting, Identifying, and En - Softcover

Stokes, Donald

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0316817155 ISBN 13: 9780316817158

Publisher: Little, Brown & Company, 1989

Synopsis

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.

About this title

Synopsis

The authors of "The Bird Feeder Book" here provide the first guide to hummingbirds - how to choose and maintain a feeder, how to attract birds, and how to photograph them. Full information on the hummingbirds is given including nesting, courtship, territorial and migratory behaviour.

Edition details

• Publisher: Little, Brown & Company
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0316817155
• ISBN 13: 9780316817158
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 89