Author: Wendy McClure
Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company
ISBN: 0807527548
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
ALA Top 10 Sustainability-themed Children's Books 2022 A brother and sister learn that small changes can make a big difference. When a bird flies into their window by accident, Callum and his sister, Emmy, learn that from the outside, the glass looks just like the sky. They also learn that the United States has lost a lot of birds in recent years—and that there are lots of things their family can do to help. First, they set out feeders and make the windows safe. Then, for the winter, they build a little shelter and put out a heated birdbath. By springtime, all kinds of birds are visiting their yard! But with such a big problem, is there more they can do to make a difference?
A Garden to Save the Birds
Author: Wendy McClure
Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company
ISBN: 0807527548
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
ALA Top 10 Sustainability-themed Children's Books 2022 A brother and sister learn that small changes can make a big difference. When a bird flies into their window by accident, Callum and his sister, Emmy, learn that from the outside, the glass looks just like the sky. They also learn that the United States has lost a lot of birds in recent years—and that there are lots of things their family can do to help. First, they set out feeders and make the windows safe. Then, for the winter, they build a little shelter and put out a heated birdbath. By springtime, all kinds of birds are visiting their yard! But with such a big problem, is there more they can do to make a difference?
Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company
ISBN: 0807527548
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
ALA Top 10 Sustainability-themed Children's Books 2022 A brother and sister learn that small changes can make a big difference. When a bird flies into their window by accident, Callum and his sister, Emmy, learn that from the outside, the glass looks just like the sky. They also learn that the United States has lost a lot of birds in recent years—and that there are lots of things their family can do to help. First, they set out feeders and make the windows safe. Then, for the winter, they build a little shelter and put out a heated birdbath. By springtime, all kinds of birds are visiting their yard! But with such a big problem, is there more they can do to make a difference?
Gardening for the Birds
Author: George Adams
Publisher: Timber Press
ISBN: 1604694092
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 445
Book Description
“An engaging and inspiring comprehensive guide.” —Booklist “A great benefit of creating a bird-friendly landscape is enjoying your garden while watching a bluebird dropping in for a worm in a freshly dug patch, a phoebe snapping at insects, or a hummingbird probing nectar-rich flowers while robins sing in the trees.” With the right native plants, arranged to mimic natural ecosystems, you will provide birds with food, water, shelter, and nesting places. Instead of just visiting your garden to snack, birds will call it home! George Adams offers close-up profiles of birds from across all regions of North America to teach you their nesting, breeding, and feeding habits along with guidance for regional plant selection and garden design.
Publisher: Timber Press
ISBN: 1604694092
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 445
Book Description
“An engaging and inspiring comprehensive guide.” —Booklist “A great benefit of creating a bird-friendly landscape is enjoying your garden while watching a bluebird dropping in for a worm in a freshly dug patch, a phoebe snapping at insects, or a hummingbird probing nectar-rich flowers while robins sing in the trees.” With the right native plants, arranged to mimic natural ecosystems, you will provide birds with food, water, shelter, and nesting places. Instead of just visiting your garden to snack, birds will call it home! George Adams offers close-up profiles of birds from across all regions of North America to teach you their nesting, breeding, and feeding habits along with guidance for regional plant selection and garden design.
Our Garden Birds
Author: Matt Sewell
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1446489086
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
In this beautiful gift edition, pop-art street artist Matt Sewell offers his own unique take on 52 of our favourite British garden birds. 'An offbeat book featuring 52 charming characterful illustrations of our best-loved British birds' -- BBC Wildlife 'A treasure to behold' -- ***** Reader review 'Quirky, creative but very well-observed' -- ***** Reader review 'This book should be owned by all garden bird lovers!' -- ***** Reader review 'Absolutely love this book!' -- ***** Reader review 'Utterly charming!' -- ***** Reader review ************************************************************************************* Since its first appearance in July 2009, Matt's 'Bird of the Week' feature for the Caught by the River website has quickly become a cult hit. His pop-art watercolours are distinctive and enchanting, as are his innovative descriptions, which see great tits 'bossing the other birds around', the 'playful yet shy buoyancy' of bullfinches and the 'improbable' nature of the waxwing ('like a computer-generated samurai finch'). This witty, delightful and distinctive gift book will appeal to bird watching enthusiasts, children and adults, and art and illustration fans alike.
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1446489086
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
In this beautiful gift edition, pop-art street artist Matt Sewell offers his own unique take on 52 of our favourite British garden birds. 'An offbeat book featuring 52 charming characterful illustrations of our best-loved British birds' -- BBC Wildlife 'A treasure to behold' -- ***** Reader review 'Quirky, creative but very well-observed' -- ***** Reader review 'This book should be owned by all garden bird lovers!' -- ***** Reader review 'Absolutely love this book!' -- ***** Reader review 'Utterly charming!' -- ***** Reader review ************************************************************************************* Since its first appearance in July 2009, Matt's 'Bird of the Week' feature for the Caught by the River website has quickly become a cult hit. His pop-art watercolours are distinctive and enchanting, as are his innovative descriptions, which see great tits 'bossing the other birds around', the 'playful yet shy buoyancy' of bullfinches and the 'improbable' nature of the waxwing ('like a computer-generated samurai finch'). This witty, delightful and distinctive gift book will appeal to bird watching enthusiasts, children and adults, and art and illustration fans alike.
My First Book of Birds
Author: Anonymous
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781406386790
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
The perfect gift for any young bird-watcher, this beautifully illustrated spotter guide is an ideal introduction to garden birds. Illustrated in a bright, contemporary style, this modern guide to the most common garden birds is packed with information and fun facts - everything you need to know to help you learn about and identify birds. With key facts about size, habitat, diet and population, there are detailed descriptions of each bird and tips to help you spot them in your own park or garden.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781406386790
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
The perfect gift for any young bird-watcher, this beautifully illustrated spotter guide is an ideal introduction to garden birds. Illustrated in a bright, contemporary style, this modern guide to the most common garden birds is packed with information and fun facts - everything you need to know to help you learn about and identify birds. With key facts about size, habitat, diet and population, there are detailed descriptions of each bird and tips to help you spot them in your own park or garden.
Song and Garden Birds of North America
Author: Alexander Wetmore
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780870440069
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780870440069
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Private Lives of Garden Birds
Author: Calvin Simonds
Publisher: Storey Publishing
ISBN: 1580174701
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
Explains the habits and behavior of mockingbirds, swallows, bluejays, chickadees, sparrows, robins, red-winged blackbirds, and crows.
Publisher: Storey Publishing
ISBN: 1580174701
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
Explains the habits and behavior of mockingbirds, swallows, bluejays, chickadees, sparrows, robins, red-winged blackbirds, and crows.
Birds in Your Backyard
Author: Robert Dolezal
Publisher: Readers Digest
ISBN: 9780762109975
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Turn your backyard into a blissful bird sanctuary-create an appealing habitat to attract birds and watch them thrive. This indispensable guide for bird enthusiasts is a comprehensive and richly illustrated volume-with over 600 full-color photos. Together with a little careful planning and planting you can turn your yard into a bird and butterfly oasis. It's several books in one: * An A-to-Z landscaping guide to identify over 75 flowers and plants * A field guide includes over 170 varieties of birds and butterflies with key information on: how to identify them by their markings, how they behave, and which feeder foods they like the best * A bird-watching guide to understand the basics of bird-watching and what equipment might be needed to observe or photograph birds Plus, a how-to guide filled with step-by-step instructions for easy-to-build projects. Learn how-to: * Plant your garden with bird-friendly trees, plants, hedges, ground cover, seed- producing flowers, and fruit-bearing shrubs and vines * Build and mount your own birdhouses, boxes, perches, and shelters * Identify the best plants for creating nesting sites; grow bird seed; and add a birdbath or pond Let Birds in Your Backyard reveal its secrets for creating an irresistible garden and welcoming landscape alive with birds and butterflies.
Publisher: Readers Digest
ISBN: 9780762109975
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Turn your backyard into a blissful bird sanctuary-create an appealing habitat to attract birds and watch them thrive. This indispensable guide for bird enthusiasts is a comprehensive and richly illustrated volume-with over 600 full-color photos. Together with a little careful planning and planting you can turn your yard into a bird and butterfly oasis. It's several books in one: * An A-to-Z landscaping guide to identify over 75 flowers and plants * A field guide includes over 170 varieties of birds and butterflies with key information on: how to identify them by their markings, how they behave, and which feeder foods they like the best * A bird-watching guide to understand the basics of bird-watching and what equipment might be needed to observe or photograph birds Plus, a how-to guide filled with step-by-step instructions for easy-to-build projects. Learn how-to: * Plant your garden with bird-friendly trees, plants, hedges, ground cover, seed- producing flowers, and fruit-bearing shrubs and vines * Build and mount your own birdhouses, boxes, perches, and shelters * Identify the best plants for creating nesting sites; grow bird seed; and add a birdbath or pond Let Birds in Your Backyard reveal its secrets for creating an irresistible garden and welcoming landscape alive with birds and butterflies.
Garden Birds of America
Author: George Harrison
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781572235915
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Here is a vivid color portfolio of 60 of America's most popular, most interesting, most colorful garden birds. But not just a lush coffee-table book, Garden Birds of America is loaded with natural history vignettes of the birds themselves, and illustrated information on how to design and manage gardens and backyards to attract them. Also included are numerous examples of gardens nationwide and the owners' stories of cultivating for a harvest of joy and surprises from their lively and colorful winged guests. A bird book for gardeners, and a garden book for birders, Garden Birds of America is a stunning collaboration between an award-winning nature writer and award-winning nature book design.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781572235915
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Here is a vivid color portfolio of 60 of America's most popular, most interesting, most colorful garden birds. But not just a lush coffee-table book, Garden Birds of America is loaded with natural history vignettes of the birds themselves, and illustrated information on how to design and manage gardens and backyards to attract them. Also included are numerous examples of gardens nationwide and the owners' stories of cultivating for a harvest of joy and surprises from their lively and colorful winged guests. A bird book for gardeners, and a garden book for birders, Garden Birds of America is a stunning collaboration between an award-winning nature writer and award-winning nature book design.
Birdscaping Your Garden
Author: George Adams
Publisher: Rodale Books
ISBN: 9780875969565
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
This guide shows how an ordinary yard can become a wonderland of songbirds by simply adding colorful native plants designed to attract many varieties of birds. 120 color photos & 60 illustrations.
Publisher: Rodale Books
ISBN: 9780875969565
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
This guide shows how an ordinary yard can become a wonderland of songbirds by simply adding colorful native plants designed to attract many varieties of birds. 120 color photos & 60 illustrations.
My First Book of Garden Birds
Author: Mike Unwin
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0713676787
Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
A picture book about garden birds that will appeal to families with young children. Each bird is introduced on a right-hand page in an illustration where it is partly obscured or turned away from the viewer. The text gives some clues and invites readers to guess the bird's identity. The reader then turns the page to find out more.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0713676787
Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
A picture book about garden birds that will appeal to families with young children. Each bird is introduced on a right-hand page in an illustration where it is partly obscured or turned away from the viewer. The text gives some clues and invites readers to guess the bird's identity. The reader then turns the page to find out more.