Identifying and Feeding Birds

by Thompson III, Bill

• ISBN13: 9780618904440
• ISBN10: 0618904441
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-09-22
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Summary

This readable, friendly guide is intended for bird watchers and nonbird watchers alikefor anyone who wants to enjoy nature right in his or her own backyard. The longtime editor ofBird Watcher's Digestand author of numerous books on birds, Bill Thompson III has been feeding and watching birds for forty years. He has tried everything, and here he shares what he's learned so that readers can avoid mistakes and skip right to successful bird feeding. He also debunks common myths about bird feeding: Does feeding birds stop them from migrating? Will birds starve if you leave your feeders empty after the birds have come to rely on them? In an easygoing and lighthearted style, seven chapters cover all the elements needed to attract birds to a backyard (food, water, shelter) and address special cases and problems (keeping bees out of the hummingbird feeder, preventing birds from flying into windows, and much more). The final chapter profiles the 130 species that are most common at backyard feeders. No separate field guide is needed; it's all right hereeverything a beginner needs to know to attract birds and then figure out what kind they are.

Author Biography

Bill Thompson III is the editor of Bird Watcher’s Digest, a bimonthly magazine with 70,000 subscribers and the author of Identify Yourself: The 50 Most Common Birding Identification Challenges. He lives with his wife, author and illustrator Julie Zickefoose and their two children on eighty birdy acres in Ohio.

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