The Backyard Bird-Lover's Guide: Attracting, Nesting, Feeding »

Besides authoring The Backyard Bird-Lover's Guide, Jan Mahnken has written for Country Journal, Farmstead, Countryside and New England Farm Journal. She lives in Ashifeld, Massachusetts, where she has loved birds from the age of thirteen.

The ultimate reference guide for everyone who loves birds! This gorgeously illustrated volume is brimming with information about attracting, enjoying, and understanding 135 of North America’s most common species. You’ll learn how to feed them, house them, provide nesting materials, and keep them coming back year after year.

More than half of the book is dedicated to in-depth profiles of individual species with detailed, accurate paintings of birds and information about their habits, size, breeding range, winter range, habitat, incubation and nesting periods, preferred foods, and much more.

I FEEDING AND HOUSING THE BIRDS

1 Why Feed the Birds?

2 The Initial Plunge

3 Bird Feeders and Food

4 The Water Situation

5 Providing Nesting Boxes

6 Gardening's for the Birds

II THE NESTING CYCLE

7 Sharing the Earth

8 Territory

9 Courtship

10 Bird Song

11 Nesting

12 The Egg

13 Nestlings and Fledglings

14 Preparing for Winter

III INDIVIDUAL BIRDS

15 Getting to Know the Birds

APPENDIX

Who Eats What

Habitat Requirements

All About Eggs

Who Incubates the Eggs

For Further Reading

Index