Hummingbirds of North America: Attracting, Feeding, and Photographing
Hummingbirds are perennially popular, and True, a pilot, amateur naturalist, and retired meteorologist, offers a good addition to this genre of bird book. He devotes almost half his work to discussing hummingbirds' habits, biology, migration, colors (including their remarkable iridescence), and photographing them, and he includes a lengthy chapter on how to feed these jewels of the bird world. The rest of the book has accounts of the 16 regularly occurring species with measurements, photos of both sexes, range, habits, habitat, and other life history details. True's text is full of anecdotes as well as references to the scientific literature. His terminology is unorthodox ("habitation" vs. breeding range; "specifications" versus measurements). Appended are state/provincial lists of expected species plus rarer ones, their periods of occurrence, and lengthy lists of favored flowers. Recommended for larger natural history collections.- Henry T. Armistead, Thomas Jefferson Univ. Lib., PhiladelphiaCopyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.