Nature Experiments & Activities, Birds

Birds in Your Backyard

Name: Birds in Your Backyard
Author: Barbara Herkert
ISBN: 9781584690290

by Barbara Herkert

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Overview

Watching birds can be easy and lots of fun. With plentiful illustrations and simple text, this book is especially designed to kindle the spark of interest in birds for children ages 4 to 10. The young person in your life will learn how to attract birds and identify common backyard birds. There is also lots of age-appropriate information, such as the distinctive behaviors of different species, how to make a nest box, official state and provincial birds in the U.S. and Canada, and much more.

Author Biography: Barbara Herkert started watching the birds in her backyard with her dad when she was a young girl, and now she rediscovers the wonders of nature daily through the eyes of her two children. Barbara's background is in both biology and fine art. She shares her home in Newport, Oregon with her husband Greg and children Keith and Jenna, two dogs, two birds, two tortoises, a variety of fish and a very old hamster. This is her first picture book.

Describes the physical characteristics, habits, and natural environment of various North American birds and provides tips for observing backyard birds.

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Allison Childs Wells

This book contains some wonderful information about birds. Kids as well as their parents will find it interesting and enjoyable to read.

Allsion Childs Wells

This book contains some wonderful information about birds. Kids as well as their parents will find it interesting and enjoyable to read.

Paul Green

Birds in Your Backyard is an excellent tool to help kindle the spark of interest in birds at an early age, and so establish a life-long passion for nature in general, and birds in particular.

School Library Journal

K-Gr 3-Soft-edged, gently colored illustrations highlight this pleasant introduction to the joys of bird-watching. The conversational text presents a wide variety of birds, gives tips on providing food and water to attract them, offers directions for building a birdhouse, and gives advice on buying binoculars for children. The illustrations show a nicely orchestrated mix of ethnicity gender in the watching youngsters, though for definite identification of the illustrated birds one really needs a field guide. One map lists the state province birds of the U.S. and Canada, and the other two indicate the common birds in eastern and western North America. This is a helpful resource for teachers who have access to outdoor areas for attracting birds to be observed, and is definitely useful to homeschooling parents.-Patricia Manning, formerly at Eastchester Public Library, NY Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information.