Amazing Hummingbirds
Amazing Hummingbirds

Author: Stan Tekiela

Publisher: Adventure Publications

Published: 2010-04-08

Total Pages: 144

ISBN-13: 1591934648

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Professional wildlife photographer Stan Tekiela spent more than ten years traveling across the country to observe and photograph the hummingbird's various species. He documented every aspect of the hummingbird's life, resulting in an incomparable collection of images and insight - compiled here in one unforgettable book. Compelling photographs and descriptions present the lives of these enchanting backyard birds.

The Hummingbird Book
The Hummingbird Book

Author: Lillian Q. Stokes

Publisher: Little, Brown

Published: 2008-11-16

Total Pages: 188

ISBN-13: 031604847X

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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. 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

A Field Guide to Hummingbirds of North America
A Field Guide to Hummingbirds of North America

Author: Sheri Williamson

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 9780618024964

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Covering 31 North American species, with more than 250 color photos and 33 maps, this is the most comprehensive field guide to hummingbirds. Introductory chapters cover the natural history of hummingbirds, ways to attract and feed them, and major hot spots in the United States and Canada for observing these fascinating birds. The 31 color plates illustrate 28 species, 7 hybrid combinations, 3 forms of albinism, and 4 species of sphinx moths often mistaken for hummingbirds. Species accounts provide in-depth information on plumage, molt, songs and calls, wing sounds, similar species, behavior, habitat, distribution, taxonomy, and conservation concerns. Detailed range maps show breeding, non-breeding, and year-round distribution, migration routes, and records outside expected areas of occurrence.

Tiny Bird
Tiny Bird

Author: Robert Burleigh

Publisher: Henry Holt and Company (BYR)

Published: 2020-04-14

Total Pages: 21

ISBN-13: 1250785553

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Robert Burleigh's narrative nonfiction picture book follows a hummingbird’s migration south for the winter, with stunning art by Wendell Minor. When the last summer flowers open their petals to the sun, it’s time for a tiny ruby-throated hummingbird to dip its beak into the heart of each bloom, extracting as much nectar as possible before the hard trip ahead. Today is the day Tiny Bird begins its amazing journey south for the winter, traveling as fast as thirty miles an hour for hundreds of miles on end. The trip is long, with savage weather and many predators along the way, but Tiny Bird is built for this epic journey and eventually arrives at its winter home. This inspiring migratory and life cycle story celebrates the important and impressive feat of a small but mighty creature. Christy Ottaviano Books

The Secret Lives of Hummingbirds
The Secret Lives of Hummingbirds

Author: David Wentworth Lazaroff

Publisher: Treasure Chest Books

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 24

ISBN-13: 9781886679009

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This book covers many of the different kinds of hummingbirds found in North America, and their life-cycle.

Attracting Butterflies & Hummingbirds to Your Backyard
Attracting Butterflies & Hummingbirds to Your Backyard

Author: Sally Roth

Publisher: Rodale

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13: 9780875968612

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Explains how to attract butterflies and hummingbirds to the backyard garden by creating an ideal habitat and provides a field guide to the sixteen hummingbird species and seventy-five common butterfly species that make North America their home.

Hummingbirds, Their Life and Behavior
Hummingbirds, Their Life and Behavior

Author: Esther Quesada Tyrrell

Publisher: Crown Publishing Group (NY)

Published: 1985

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13:

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Robert Tyrrell, the world's foremost photographer of hummingbirds, has successfully captured on film the utterly fascinating day-to-day activities of our colorful North American species. Included among the 235 full-color pictures are never-before-photographed sequences such as nesting, molting, preening and territorial aggression, as well as an unprecedented portfolio of hummingbirds feeding from wildflowers. Esther Tyrrell has written the accompanying illuminating text, by far the most complete and up-to-date information on hummingbirds ever assembled, which will make this book the definitive source for both scientists and the general reader for years to come. This lavishly illustrated volume opens with an introduction to this lovely family of

Great God A'mighty!, the Dixie Hummingbirds
Great God A'mighty!, the Dixie Hummingbirds

Author: J. Jerome Zolten

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 385

ISBN-13: 0195152727

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Zolten offers a high-flying account of gospel's most revered groups and the social and musical history they helped make. 20 halftones.

Hummingbirds
Hummingbirds

Author: Kate Riggs

Publisher: The Creative Company

Published: 2022-03-16

Total Pages: 28

ISBN-13: 1640007423

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Meet some of the world's smallest birds in this elementary introduction to hummingbirds. Small yet mighty, hummingbirds have incredible flying abilities, darting from flower to flower. They need all the nectar they can get to fuel their fast wings! Readers explore the hummingbird's features, behaviors, and habitats with STEM-appropriate text and gorgeous photography. An end folk tale shares a Mexican story about how these birds got their beautiful feathers.

The Complete Book of Hummingbirds
The Complete Book of Hummingbirds

Author: Tony Tilford

Publisher: Thunder Bay Press

Published: 2015-03-01

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781626863880

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A fascinating reference guide to nature's "jewels in flight." Often called "jewels in flight" due to their brilliant plumage, the tiny hummingbird is a welcome friend in gardens and on patios everywhere. These fascinating little avians have long captured our imagination with their spectacular beauty and magical ability to hover in midair. Discover these remarkable little birds in the Complete Book of Hummingbirds by Tony Tilford. This is the ultimate reference guide to hummingbirds, featuring a comprehensive overview of the birds' biology, evolution, behavior, breeding, and migration patterns. You'll be awestruck by the amazing updated collection of full-color photographs depicting hummingbirds in flight and at rest in the Gallery of Hummingbirds. Learn how to attract hungry hummingbirds to your garden! Discover the kinds of plants and flowers that they love to visit, and how to create artificial feeding stations by making your own hummingbird food. From Woodnymphs and Mountain-Gems to Plovercrests and Hillstars, this thorough book describes all the hummingbirds of the world, and includes a helpful reference section, complete with a glossary and recommended websites for further reading.