Product Description: From gift-giving treats to beak-smacking suets, this book offers 50 recipes that are sure to delight backyard guests and lure a variety of new species. No exotic ingredients are necessary-with just a little suet from the supermarket, some sand from the hardware store, scraps from the kitchen, and inexpensive seeds and grains, you can create wonderful recipes...read more

Product Description: Originally published in 1986, this book is concerned with the ways in which seabirds function as predators in the marine environment; in particular about how they find and catch food and how much of it they consume. It reviews both the feeding ecology of seabirds (including adaptations for flight and diving) and also most of the leading field studies (in polar, temperate and tropical regions) that have quantitatively examined the interactions of seabird communities with their prey...read more

Detailed advice on the design and placement of feeders and the selection, preparation, and placement of foods suitable for specifically identified and described species in particular locations, mainly east of the Great Plains (view table of contents)

Product Description: Begging by nestling birds has become the model system for investigating evolutionary conflicts of interest within families and their theoretical resolution provided by honest signals of offspring need. In response to the recent explosions of scientific papers on the revolution of begging; we have brought together twenty-four original contributions from major researchers in all areas of this dynamic field...read more

An illustrated guide to backyard birds explains how to attract, identify, and understand the birds that come to an outdoor feeder, featuring lively species descriptions and illustrations and advice on how to discourage pests, attract a wide range of bird species, and utilize the new products on the market. Original. (view table of contents)

Recipes for special seed, suet, and other treats for winter birds are prefaced by notes on feeding stations, seed dispensers, suet containers, and ground feeders

Simple text and photographs present birds eating a variety of things, including worms, seeds, and fish.

Offers advice on setting up feeders that attract less messy birds, and identifies the favorite foods of a variety of common species

A comprehensive guide to the food that birds love to eat includes lists and information on pre-packaged store-bought feed, as well as recycled and natural foods, with twenty special recipes for attracting a variety of birds

Tells how to attract birds, describes the advantages of summer feeding, and offers advice on food selection, feeders, and backyard habitat

Product Description: "Introduction: Bird feeding will increase our interest in nature and deepen our concern for the environment. By setting up feeding stations in our backyards, w begin in a very small way, to be aware of and to understand the science of ecology...read more

Offers advice on feeding migrant birds, discusses bird houses, feeders, and nests, and identifies wild birds commonly found in Britain and Europe