Birdscaping in the Midwest: A Guide to Gardening with Native Plants to Attract Birds

ISBN-13: 9780299291549 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 350 str.

Mariette Nowak; Peter Raven

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Go beyond bird feeders! Learn how to create outstanding bird habitats in your own yard with native plants that offer food, cover, and nesting sites for birds. This guide is packed with color photographs, sage advice, detailed instructions, and garden plans. It features nine different habitat gardens for hummingbirds, bluebirds, wintering birds, migrant birds, and birds that frequent prairies, wetlands, lakes, shrublands, and woodlands, along with advice about maintaining your plantings and augmenting them with nest boxes, birdbaths, misters, and perches. The information on recommended plant species includes their native ranges in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Ohio, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, and Wisconsin; the birds they attract; their visual characteristics; and their cultivation. Mariette Nowak also describes how gardeners featured in this book have gone beyond their own garden gates to work for the protection and restoration of bird habitat in their neighborhoods and communities. Birdscaping in the Midwest provides many sources of further information, including publications, web sites, organizations, and native plant nurseries.

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Acknowledgments Foreword Introduction Part 1 Birds & Plants     1 An Ancient Collaboration     2 Going Native     3 The Case against Exotics Part 2 Gallery of Bird Habitat Gardens     4 The Gardens & Gardeners Part 3 Native Habitats for Birds: The Basics     5 Getting Started     6 Planning & Design     7 Site Preparation & Planting Part 4 Bird Habitat Gardens for Specific Birds     8 The Hummingbird Garden     9 The Prairie Bird Garden     10 The Bluebird Savanna Garden     11 The Woodland Bird Garden     12 The Wetland Bird Garden     13 The Migratory Bird Garden     14 The Shrubland Bird Garden     15 The Winter Bird Garden     16 Bird Baths & Water Gardens Part 5 Midwestern Plants That Attract Birds     17 Trees, Shrubs & Vines     18 Wildflowers, Grasses & Sedges Part 6 Maintaining & Enhancing Your Bird Habitat Garden     19 Garden Habitat Maintenance     20 Supplemental Housing     21 Supplemental Feeding     22 Problems in Bird Habitat Gardens Conclusion Gardeners' Resources Birding Organizations & Websites Native Plant & Habitat Enhancement Organizations Midwestern Native Plant Nurseries & Consultants Index About the Author Photo Credits