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. 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 as well as information on how to select the proper feeders, what to use in them, when to put them up, and when to take them down.

Learn what flowers to plant to attract hummingbirds in your part of the country and amazing facts about hummingbirds, such as how fast they fly and how much they weigh.

You’ll also learn guidelines for photographing hummingbirds and complete information on hummingbird behavior, including flight displays, breeding habits, and feeding.

With seventy full-color photographs, eight range maps showing summer and winter distribution, and eight diagrams of the birds' striking aerobatics, this guide will fully enable readers to enjoy these popular birds.

Written by Donald and Lillian Stokes. Paperback, 89 pages.