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The Hummingbird Book

by Lillian Q. Stokes
Donald Stokes
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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.
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
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    Publisher: Little, Brown and Company

    Kindle Book

    • ISBN: 9780316147378
    • Release date: November 16, 2008

    OverDrive Read

    • ISBN: 9780316048477
    • Release date: November 16, 2008

    EPUB ebook

    • ISBN: 9780316048477
    • File size: 4476 KB
    • Release date: November 16, 2008

    Formats

    Kindle Book
    OverDrive Read
    EPUB ebook

    subjects

    Nature Nonfiction

    Languages

    English

    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.
    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
    • Expand title description text
    Nature Nonfiction