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| | The Stokes Birdfeeder Book: An Easy Guide to Attracting, Identifying and Understanding Your Feeder Birds |  | Authors: Donald Stokes, Lillian
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  8 reviews
Format: Bargain Price
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1st ed
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 96
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 10.9 x 8.5 x 0.3
Dewey Decimal Number: 598.0723473
ASIN: B0019S0F20
Publication Date: October 30, 1987
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Product Description
This unique guide helps readers learn how to attract more birds, become experts at identifying birds, and better understand bird behavior. The authors write a regular column that appears in Bird Watcher's Digest and Living Bird.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 3 more reviews...
Bird Book October 19, 2007
Good book, has a lot of useful information and tips on how to attact birds to your home feeders. Could be a bit more expansive, but pictures are great. All-in-all a helpful book. Won't know until spring whether the tips to attract the birds works or not.
 Good Book, Slightly Misleading Title September 16, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This book is subtitled "The complete guide to attracting, identifying, and understanding your feeder birds." While it is good at the "indentifying" and "understanding" parts, it leaves something to be desired in the "attracting" department. I had hoped for a book that would tell me what has a good chance of drawing specific birds, but except for hummingbirds, it really doesn't go into detail about the topic. It's still a good book as far as it goes; I simply don't think that it's much of a guide to attracting the specific birds you have reason to believe are in your area, but goes with a considerably more general approach.
 Stokes BirdFeeder January 9, 2007
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
You just can't go wrong with this one! For the home user, it really gives you a good amount of information with clear pictures.
 Not stoked on Stokes August 2, 2005
9 out of 11 found this review helpful
Disappointing. I was expecting an Audubon-style reference book, but got a simpler, very brief, nothing new, thin, magazine-sized tickler. I've heard good things about Stokes, but this book wasn't a winner. Was looking for more details about plantlife, positioning of shrubs, feeders, bird baths, landscaping etc, but book consisted more of bios on birds with a little bird-feeding info. at the beginning of the book. Save your money and go elsewhere. :-(
Good Book For a Beginner February 14, 2005
12 out of 12 found this review helpful
As a complete novice to birding and gardening, I found this book a helpful starting point. It does not identify many species, but did help me recognize most of the birds coming to my newly purchased feeders. It contains only the most common birds, the Tufted Titmouse, Cardinals, Black-capped and Carolina Chickadees, etc.
It also contained helpful information as to what common birds favor what types of feeders and provided information on some bird behavior and how to buy binoculars.
The maps of where the birds are found are not very detailed. They also purposely leave out any information on birds some may find undesirable, like Starlings and House Sparrows, which can be aggressive and keep small songbirds away.
This guide is for the utmost, novice and does not contain extremely detailed information on identifying and feeding birds. The information is very generalized and only covers common backyard birds.
Nevertheless, it is a helpful introduction only for someone like me who knew next to nothing when I purchased it.
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