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The Backyard Bird-Lovers Guide

Whether you want to attract hummingbirds to your garden or bluebirds to your nesting box, this colorful guide is brimming with information on attracting and understanding backyard birds. You'll learn how to feed them, house them, provide nesting materials, and keep them coming back year after year.

Along with beautiful, detailed paintings by Jeffery C. Domm and a forward by Rene Laubach of the Massachusetts Audubon Society, The Backyard Bird-Lover's Guide features a reference section with close-ups of more than 135 species and their feeding and nesting habits. And there's much more: A guide to feeders and food, who eats what? A chapter on providing nest boxes foe bluebirds, martins, owls, woodpeckers, wrens, wood ducks, and more... How to create gardens that attract birds. Tips on deterring cats, squirrels, and undesirable birds. How to identify nests and eggs - and what to do with a fallen nestling. And Details of the family life of birds. Put to practice the advice in this outstanding text and soon you too will have a backyard full of wild birds.