The turn to entertaining birds

The popular shift from eating to watching birds inspired a raft of instructive books. In 1910, Gilbert H. Trafton came out with his Methods of Attracting Birds. In 1916, Neil M. Ladd published How to Make Friends with Birds. And taking the birds as his house guests, Ernest H. Baynes published his Wild Birds: How to Entertain Them (in 1915). Robins, warblers, and chickadees seemed to sense their rising popularity, finding that city dwellers greeted them with perfectly adequate birdfeed.
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