Description
Book SynopsisA practical, comprehensive, and thoroughly illustrated guide to attracting birds to any property.
Trade Review"Filled with accurate and practical information from bird seed and bird houses to bird-friendly shrubs and trees, this book is an encyclopedia of everything you need to know to make your property a more welcoming and more beneficial habitat for wild birds." -- David Sibley, author of The Sibley Guide to Birds
"The design of gardens and landscapes is one of the most important ways in which we can make space for wildlife; this book is simply the most detailed and authoritative source of information on the subject I have yet seen." -- Noel Kingsbury, Sheffield University, author of Gardens by Design and Designing Borders
"Whether your site is an apartment balcony, suburban backyard, or corporate park, Kress offers plenty of techniques for enhancing its value for forest, prairie, or shrubland birds.... Kress both urges and empowers all to begin the 'urgent and satisfying work' of creating natural havens that wildlife increasingly needs to survive." -- Julie Dunlap, American Gardener, September-October 2006