The Hummingbird Book: The Complete Guide to Attracting, Identifying,and Enjoying Hummingbirds
Donald Stokes, Lillian Stokes
Language: English
Pages: 77
ISBN: 0316817155
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Publish Year note: First published September 19th 1989
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Attract amazing hummingbirds to your backyard! With this comprehensive, beautifully illustrated guide, you'll find it easy to attract these tiny jewel-like birds to your own yard. The Stokes Hummingbird Book provides all the information you need to bring hummingbirds up close, identify them, and understand their fascinating and varied behavior.
The book includes:
> Range maps and full-color photographs to help you identify and locate hummingbirds
Information on how to select the proper feeders, what to use in them, when to put them up, and when to take them down
> Advice on what flowers to plant to attract hummingbirds in your part of the country
> Amazing facts about hummingbirds, such as how fast they fly and how much they weigh
Guidelines for photographing hummingbirds
Complete information on hummingbird behavior, including flight displays, breeding habits, and feeding
A special section on attracting orioles, with photographs and behavior guides for each of the eight species found in North America
A resource list for hummingbird supplies.
notice that for each plant on the list there is a common name and a scientific name given. The common names that plants in nurseries and garden centers are called by often vary depending on what part of the country you live in. The scientific names are more constant, but sometimes may not be on the labels of the plants. After the scientific name of some of the plants on the list there are the letters “spp.,” which stand for “species.” This means that many species in that genus will be useful in
to the feeder entrance so that just the flower and the bird show up in the picture. — Background. This can be a 16-by-20-inch board or mat that is hung behind the feeder. — Film. Your film should have an ISO of 64 to 100. Kodachrome 64 renders the finest detail in the feathers. Ektachrome 100 HC and 100+, as well as Fujichrome 100, are good choices for enhanced colors. Films with ISO’s lower than 64 require more light than electronic flashes can adequately provide and film with an ISO higher
Yankees, Inc., 6. Presto Galaxy, Inc. For addresses of manufacturers see Resources, pages 88–89. Try to place the feeders where they will be protected from the wind and where there is some shade. Wind jostles the feeder and may make the sugar solution spill, and hot sun shining all day on the feeder can cause the sugar solution to spoil more quickly. Feeders may be suspended from a wire or string and hung from a limb, garden stake, or other support. Several companies make special metal supports
follow her about, probably learning appropriate sources of nectar and insects to feed on. Fledgling black-chinned hummingbirds can give squeaky food calls as they beg for food from their mother. These calls may be heard for up to 3 weeks. Black-chinned hummingbirds may have more than 1 brood. Sometimes the female starts building the nest for the second brood while still feeding nestlings or fledglings from her first brood. Black-chinned hummingbird, male. The only North American hummingbird
defense of his territory. One of these is called circuit flight, in which he flies up over the territory and circles about repeatedly. The flights may follow a chase or be stimulated by the mere presence of another male. The display may help the male in his territory advertisement. Dive Display Broad-Tailed Hummingbird The dive display of the broad-tailed hummingbird is U-shaped and 20 to 40 feet in height. Listen for a clicking sound, possibly created by the tail feathers, that occurs at the