100 Plants to Feed the Birds
Turn Your Home Garden into a Healthy Bird Habitat
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- USD 11.99
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- USD 11.99
Descripción editorial
If you love feeding and watching birds, learn how you can enjoy it even more - and also help address habitat loss, by creating a healthy year-round landscape for your feathered visitors - with 100 Plants to Feed the Birds.
This guide offers in-depth planting and care information for 100 native plant species that feed and shelter birds all year long, including during breeding and migrating periods. Some of these plants can be added to your garden, some are helpful wild plants to avoid weeding, and some are trees that you can plant.
Color photographs and range maps give you the visual guidance you need to choose the right plants for any location in North America.
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In this handy guide, For the Birds podcaster Erickson (The Love Lives of Birds) explains how to design an inviting habitat for feathered friends. She provides a rundown of 100 trees, grasses, herbs, and shrubs that readers can plant to attract a variety of birds, and details ideal growing conditions and the native range for each. Bluestem grass, for instance, thrives in most of the U.S. outside the Northwest and supplies nesting material for sparrows and juncos, while black-eyed Susans produce "seeds relished by cardinals, titmice and chickadees." Douglas fir trees require well-drained soil and offer roosting spots for woodpeckers, who eat the insects that live in the trees. To attract hummingbirds, Erickson recommends planting coralberry or blueberry, and notes that the latter hosts "caterpillars that feed insectivorous birds." Encouraging readers to think long term, she writes that though maple and oak trees take years to begin producing seeds, they host insects that birds can eat much earlier and make a valuable addition to any garden. Nature lovers will adore the photos of birds enjoying the described flora, and the use of symbols indicating which plants are good for nesting, attracting insects, and providing seeds makes the guide easy to digest at a glance. This is a must-have for backyard birdwatchers.
