Presents information on how to create a garden that will attract butterflies and provide for their continuing needs; discusses the basics of butterfly lives; provides an identification guide to common backyard species in North America; and includes details on the life and behavior of each species.

Focuses on the social patterns of twenty-five commonly observable birds.

Discusses 60 common insects in their natural habitats, and explains their life cycles, with illustrations.

David Sibley, Don and Lillian Stokes, and many more share their inside tips -- and witty observations -- on the birding life. The biggest names in birding dispense advice to birders of every level -- on topics ranging from feeding birds and cleaning binoculars to pishing and pelagic birding -- in these lighthearted essays accompanied by illustrations. Whether satirizing bird snobs or relating the traditions and taboos of the birding culture, this...