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Birds at Your Feeder

A Guide to Winter Birds of the Great Plains

By Dana Gardner, and Nancy Overcott

Bur Oak Guide Series

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LAMINATED FOLD-OUT GUIDE (unfolds to 16 3/4 x 16 7/8), 75 color paintings, 2003
$9.95 paper 0-87745-866-9, 978-0-87745-866-1

$99.00 paper 0-87745-867-7, 978-0-87745-867-8

 

The perfect gift for your favorite birdwatcher!

Since winter on the Great Plains is often bitterly cold, inhospitable, and colorless, residents of this bleak landscape feed wild birds both to help them survive and to bring life and color to the landscape. This strikingly beautiful addition to Iowa's laminated guidebook series will also bring life and color to everyone who enjoys watching and nurturing winter birds.

Dana Gardner's colorful and accurate paintings show birds in flight, perched, and at appropriate kinds of feeders. Nancy Overcott's text provides common and scientific names for fifty species, from the great horned owl to the red-breasted nuthatch to the white-throated sparrow, as well as average size, distribution, and preferred feeder foods.

Useful for both novice and experienced birdwatchers across the entire Midwest—from the prairies and forests of North Dakota, Minnesota, and Wisconsin south through Kansas, Missouri, Arkansas, and northern Oklahoma—Birds at Your Feeder is a durable and beautiful guide to one of nature's favorite winter visitors.

“What a charming little guide. Birds at Your Feeder should serve as a useful introduction for anyone learning about common backyard birds.”—Laura Erickson, author of For the Birds: An Uncommon Guide

Praise for Bur Oak Guides

“Our customers love Prairie in Your Pocket. It's perfect not only for your pocket but for your backpack or on your car dash. We can't wait for more.”—Chris Turland, Missouri Botanical Garden

Prairie in Your Pocket moves faster than a goldang prairie fire. I can't wait to see Iowa's next addition to their nature guide series.“—Jim Harris, Prairie Lights Books

Wildlife artist Dana Gardner has illustrated twenty-six books; he is both author and illustrator of the forthcoming A Field Guide to the Birds of Belize. Naturalist and reporter Nancy Overcott writes the “At Home in the Woods” column for the Fillmore County Journal in Preston, Minnesota; she is also a columnist for Minnesota Birding and the author of At Home in the Big Woods, illustrated by Dana Gardner.

 

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