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The Hummingbird Book

The Complete Guide to Attracting, Identifying,and Enjoying Hummingbirds

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By Donald Stokes

By Lillian Q. Stokes

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$17.99

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$23.99 CAD

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  1. Trade Paperback $17.99 $23.99 CAD
  2. ebook $9.99 $11.99 CAD

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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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On Sale
Sep 19, 1989
Page Count
89 pages
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
ISBN-13
9780316817158

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Donald Stokes

About the Author

Donald and Lillian Stokes are widely recognized as America’s foremost authorities on birds and nature. Their books include the bestselling Stokes Field Guide to the Birds of North America, the Stokes Field Guide to Birds, the Stokes Beginner’s Guide to Birds, the Stokes Nature Guides, and the Stokes Backyard Nature Books. They live in New Hampshire and Florida.

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Lillian Q. Stokes

About the Author

Lillian Stokes and her husband Donald are widely recognized as America’s foremost authorities on birds and nature. Their books include the bestselling Stokes Field Guide to the Birds of North America, the Stokes Field Guide to Birds, the Stokes Beginner’s Guide to Birds, the Stokes Nature Guides, and the Stokes Backyard Nature Books. Lillian lives in New Hampshire. 

 

Matthew A. Young is is the President and Founder of the Finch Research Network (FiRN). For ten years he was a Regional Editor of the Kingbird, the state ornithological journal in New York, was an Adjunct Professor in Environmental Studies at SUNY-Cortland, and currently teaches Intro to Birding and Nature Observation classes for Cornell University and is the Board Chair at The Wetland Trust. He lives in New York.

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