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Title: Bird Gardening - the Complete Guide to Creating a Bird- Friendly Habitat in Your Back by Donald and Lillian Stokes ISBN: 0-316-81836-4 Publisher: Little Brown & Company Pub. Date: 30 April, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95

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Average Customer Rating: 4.33 (3 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: Good resource
Comment: As with other Stokes books, this one is quite a good reference. Lots of nsights in attracting wildlife, specifics on prefered plants, etc. A good book to have on hand when landscaping or planting new gardens.

Rating: 3
Summary: I hate to say anything bad about the Stokes, but...
Comment: This book was a disappointment. I think it represents a classic example of a publisher using established authors' names to crank out a nice looking book that contains very little in the way of useful information.

The book has only 95 numbered pages to begin with. The first five of those are -- get this -- the title page, a page listing other Stokes publications, another title page. the publisher's information page, and the table of contents.

Okay. That leaves 90 pages for content, right?

Not really. The last 31 pages are given over entirely to glossy, full color bird identication photos. And approximately one third of the remaining pages are also devoted to pretty bird photographs. The book is almost entirely "boiler plate", in other words. What content there is is fine -- there just isn't much of it.

If information is what you want, get _The Bird Garden_ by Stephen Kress (The Nation Audubon Society) instead. It's much better.

Rating: 5
Summary: Great for beginners
Comment: This book is a wonderful starting point to help you learn about bird gardening. It starts with the four basic needs and then explains in a clear and simple fashion how to meet these basic needs, as well as other considerations. The book also has a small picture glossary of the most common birds and their "bio". This book is very well written, has charts that are easy to follow, full of gorgeous color photographs, and though they keep it short, it's crammed with helpful info!

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