Wildlife Books - Bird Watching Books

Bird Species Books - Stokes
The Hummingbird Book

• Identifying and Enjoying Hummingbirds
• Baby Hummingbirds
• Hummingbird Feeders
• Sugar Solutions
• Feeder Maintenance
• Solving Feeder Problems
• Hummingbird Myths
• Orioles and Other Visitors
• Creating a Hummingbird Habitat
• Hummingbird Flowers
• Hummingbird Gardening
• Photographing Hummingbirds

MAPS/INFO FOR EACH: Allen's, Anna's, Black-Chinned, Broad-Tailed, Calliope, Costa's, Ruby-Throated, Rufous, Berylline, Blue-Throated, Broad-Billed, Lucifer, Magnificent, Violet-Crowned, White-Eared, Buff-Bellied.

Bird Species Books - Ruby-throated Hummingbird

Learn about behavior, courtship, nesting, feeding, predators and much more in this spectacular book. If that isn't enough, you will get answers to questions you wouldn't even think to ask!

• What common INSECT is a very common hummingbird predator?
• What role does the male play in nest building and guarding?
• Do hummingbirds sip nectar using their tongues as a straw?
• Will hummingbirds return to the same breeding territory year after year?

Bird Species Books - Northern Cardinals

• 115 pages
• 140+ color photographs and maps

Learn about behavior, courtship, nesting, feeding, predators and much more in this spectacular book. If that isn't enough, you will get answers to questions you wouldn't even think to ask!

• Why do cardinals sunbathe?
• What surprising reason might cause cardinals to shriek when being held?
• Does the male or female adult cardinal feed the nestlings more often?
• How quickly can the female lay her eggs?

Bird Species Books - Eastern Bluebirds

• 119 pages
• 155 color photographs

Learn about habitat, behavior, seasonal plumage, brooding, nesting, communication and much more in this valuable book.

• How do variations in the blue plumage of a male bluebird tell a female bluebird about his quality as a mate?
• What do different body positions signal to other bluebirds?
• What behavior does a recently fledged bluebird demonstrate when it spots a predator?

Bird Species Books - Red-tailed Hawks

• 94 pages
• 128 color photographs

Learn about behavior, courtship, incubation, hatching, fledging, migration, hunting, diet and many other things in this well-researched book.

• Why do young red-tails play with sticks, corncobs and other objects?
• How dangerous is migration?
• Why do they often perch on only one leg while the other is drawn up under plumage?

Bird Species Books - Black-capped Chickadees

• 89 pages
• 169 color photographs

Learn about behavior, courtship, nesting, food selection, fledging, flying, communication, hierarchies and more in this book.

• How does a chick-a-dee call carry meaning depending upon context, rate, volume, proportion and sequence of notes?
• If four babies in a nest have black caps and one other baby has a silvery cap, what does this mean?
• What percentage of a chickadee's diet consists of animal matter such as insects?