Planting for garden birds A grower's guide to creating a bird-friendly habitat
Book - 2022
"In Planting for Garden Birds find straightforward ideas and easy to achieve plans that will make your garden irresistible to birds. Packed with interesting facts, environmental and habitat information as well as easy to achieve planting ideas, this is a practical, illustrated guide for people wanting to encourage more birdlife to their outdoor space. By gardening sustainably, you can make a considerable difference to the wildlife populations in your immediate area, as well as in the country as a whole. While some birds are residents we'll see from day to day, others are fleeting visitors - but they're all potential guests in our gardens if we make the environment suitably welcoming"--
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- Subjects
- Published
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London :
Quadrille, an imprint of Hardie Grant Publishing
2022.
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Other Authors
- Physical Description
- 142 pages : illustrations (colour) ; 20 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN
- 9781787138292
- Introduction
- Chapter 1.
- Why garden especially for birds?
- Spotlight: Wrens
- Chapter 2.
- Interesting facts about birds
- Spotlight: Pigeons, Woodpigeons and Collared Doves
- Chapter 3.
- Habitat essentials
- Spotlight: Sparrows and Dunnocks
- Chapter 4.
- Layered planting
- Spotlight: Blackbirds and Thrushes
- Chapter 5.
- Spring birds and plants
- Spotlight: Woodpeckers
- Chapter 6.
- Summer birds and plants
- Spotlight: Swifts, Swallows and House Martins
- Chapter 7.
- Autumn birds and plants
- Spotlight: Blue Tits and Great Tits
- Chapter 8.
- Winter birds and plants
- Spotlight: Robins
- Chapter 9.
- Spotting birds
- Spotlight: Finches
- Spotlight: Owls
- Chapter 10.
- Problems and predators
- Spotlight: Sparrowhawks
- Spotlight: Crows, Magpies and Jays
- Chapter 11.
- Resources and reading list
- Index of common and Latin names
- Acknowledgements and about the author