For the Birds: An Uncommon Guide

by Laura Erickson

In 365 day-by-day sketches, Laura Erickson brings more than 250 birds right into your living room-from rare hawk owls to elusive sedge wrens to plastic lawn flamingos. Light-hearted, yet authoritative, For the Birds is brimming with fascinating birdlore. Did you know that you can mail three chickadees with a single stamp? That Black-billed Cuckoos flourish on a diet of army worms? That winter finches are especially attracted to feeders offering grit...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0938586912
• ISBN13: 9780938586913
• Release Date: November 2001
• Publisher: Min Pfeifer-Hamilton Pub
• Length: 424 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 8.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Great book, great format

I love the insights in this book and the way that they are arranged by days and months so that you can follow them by season. I don't live in the same climate that Laura Erickson does, but I enjoy reading the changing of the seasons along with her. Her attitude is both scientific and humane, with enough playfulness thrown in to relieve the sometimes grim stories of the struggles of our feathered friends against the environmental challenges we put in their way.

If you are new to birding, this is your book!

Well written, even entertaining most of the time. The format is excellent