Backyard Birding: A Guide To Attracting And Identifying Birds

by Randi Minetor, Nic Minetor (Photographer)

Packed with information and photos, Backyard Birding provides clearly stated and illustrated guidelines to maximize your home and neighborhood birding experiences and to help you bring a wider variety of birds to your own backyard. You'll find facts about native plants to add to your yard to attract hummingbirds and migrants, which foods to offer and which to avoid, and even tips to keep squirrels and other critters away from your feeders.

256 pages, Paperback

First published April 12, 2011

About the author

Crisscrossing America since 1992 in a quest to see all 50 states (done!), 431 national parks (76 to go), and more than 700 species of birds (623 so far), Randi and Nic Minetor bring their expertise and their love of the wilderness, American history, and birding to readers who share their many passions. A working writer for more than 40 years, Randi is now the author of more than 80 books in print under her own name, and a number of ghostwritten books on a wide variety of topics.