100 Plants to Feed the Birds

100 Plants to Feed the Birds - Turn your Home Garden into a Healthy Bird Habitat

Author: Laura Erickson

Description:

PROVIDE THE RIGHT PLANTS AT THE RIGHT TIME

Welcome birds to your yard with plants that provide food and shelter. As natural habitat shrinks, bird-friendly landscape plantings are increasingly important.

In this lushly photographed book, Laura Erickson introduces you to the intimate relationships between birds and more than 100 native trees, shrubs, grasses, flowers, lichens, vines, and cacti. You'll also learn how you can provide year-round nutritional and nesting support for birds of all kinds.

LAURA ERICKSON is the author of The Love Lives of Birds and The Bird Watching Answer Book and coauthor of Into the Nest. A recipient of the American Birding Association's prestigious Roger Tory Peterson Award, she has served as science editor at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and a columnist and contributing editor for BirdWatching. She produces For the Birds, a long-running public radio program and podcast, and lives in Duluth, Minnesota. Find her online at lauraerickson.com.