Title: The hummingbird book
First published: 1989
Description: Attract amazing hummingbirds to your backyard! With this comprehensive, beautifully illustrated guide, you'll find it easy to attract these tiny jewel-like birds to your own yard. The Stokes Hummingbird Book provides all the information you need to bring hummingbirds up close, identify them, and understand their fascinating and varied behavior. The book includes:  Range maps and full-color photographs to help you identify and locate hummingbirds  Information on how to select the proper feeders, what to use in them, when to put them up, and when to take them down  Advice on what flowers to plant to attract hummingbirds in your part of the country  Amazing facts about hummingbirds, such as how fast they fly and how much they weigh  Guidelines for photographing hummingbirds  Complete information on hummingbird behavior, including flight displays, breeding habits, and feeding  A special section on attracting orioles, with photographs and behavior guides for each of the eight species found in North America  A resource list for hummingbird supplies.
Subjects: Hummingbirds, Bird attracting, Nature, Nonfiction
LC classification: QL696.A558 S76 1989