Go beyond bird feeders! Learn how to create outstanding bird habitats in
your own yard with native plants that offer food, cover, and nesting
sites for birds. This guide is packed with color photographs, sage
advice, detailed instructions, and garden plans. It features nine
different habitat gardens for hummingbirds, bluebirds, wintering birds,
migrant birds, and birds that frequent prairies, wetlands, lakes,
shrublands, and woodlands, along with advice about maintaining your
plantings and augmenting them with nest boxes, birdbaths, misters, and
perches. The information on recommended plant species includes their
native ranges in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Ohio, Michigan, Minnesota,
Missouri, and Wisconsin; the birds they attract; their visual
characteristics; and their cultivation. Mariette Nowak also describes
how gardeners featured in this book have gone beyond their own garden
gates to work for the protection and restoration of bird habitat in
their neighborhoods and communities. Birdscaping in the Midwest
provides many sources of further information, including publications,
websites, organizations, and native plant nurseries.