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A Garden Bird Year (Hardcover)
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A Garden Bird Year (Hardcover)
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Loot Price R434
Discovery Miles 4 340
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Britain's gardens are a vast, living landscape and the home to
hundreds of species of birds. Learn to pay attention to these
visitors to your own garden or local park and you'll have a
front-row seat to the unfolding drama that is the garden bird's
year. As dawn breaks across your back garden, if you were paying
attention, you would notice that the robin and the blackbird are
always the first birds to arrive. These ground hunters have large
eyes, so don't mind the dim light of the early morning. And that's
just the beginning of what you can learn watching your own back
garden. Ornithologist Mike Toms has spent a year avidly observing
his own garden, and the result is a comprehensive picture of the
lives of garden birds. From the crowded yet quiet January garden
populated by migratory fieldfares and bramblings, to the riotous
gardens of spring, filled with songbirds competing for mates, the
garden ecosystem changes throughout the year. Learn to spot these
changes, to greet the arrival of the swifts in May and the new crop
of fledgling goldfinches and blackbirds in June, and you'll find a
new world opening up to you. A Garden Bird's Year is the perfect
introduction to this world. Supremely readable, it explains biology
and behaviour to paint a picture of the lives of common bird
species, while also offering practical information for watching and
feeding the birds in your own backyard. Toms details birds'
preferences for particular plants, seeds and feeders, so you can
learn to attract different species to your own garden. He also
charts fascinating recent adaptations - urban birds sleep later
than their rural counterparts, probably because cities are on
average a few degrees warmer, and they sing either earlier or
later, to avoid competing with local traffic; and the balance of
migratory birds to Britain is being affected by the world's
changing climate. Many species of garden birds are threatened, but
there is much that each one of us can do to support them, to
attract them, and to help them thrive through the year.
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