Feeding Wild Birds in America: Culture, Commerce, and Conservation

by Carrol L. Henderson, Margaret A. Barker, Paul J. Baicich

Book Overview

Today, according to the US Fish and Wildlife Service, more than fifty million Americans feed birds around their homes, and over the last sixty years, billions of pounds of birdseed have filled millions of feeders in backyards everywhere. Feeding Wild Birds in America tells why and how a modest act of provision has become such a pervasive, popular, and often passionate aspect of people's lives. Each chapter provides details on one or more bird-feeding...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1623492114
• ISBN13: 9781623492113
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.5" x 8.6"