The bird watching answer book
Subtitle: everything you need to know to enjoy birds in your backyard and beyond
By: Laura Erickson
Contributors: Cornell University. Laboratory of Ornithology
Publisher: Storey Pub.
Published: 2009
Place of publication: North Adams, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 388
ISBN-13: 9781603424523
Other titles: Everything you need to know to enjoy birds in your backyard and beyond
Notes: At head of title: The Cornell Lab of Ornithology.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: For the birds : feeding, watching and protecting our feathered friends. Guess who's coming to dinner? The art of bird feeding ; Birding for fun and science : the sport of bird-watching ; Living with our feathered friends : solving bird problems ; Looking to the future : protecting bird populations; title: Bird brains : avian behavior and intelligence. Actions speak louder in birds : bird behavior ; Singin' in the rain : bird vocalizations ; Do you know the way to San Jose? Bird migration ; The birds and the bees : how birds reproduce; title: All about birds, inside and out. The inside story : how birds work ; Of eagle eyes and ultrasound : how birds perceive the world ; On angels' wings : fascinating feathers ; Those magnificent flying machines : how birds fly.