Backyard Birding and Butterfly Gardening

Learn how to:

• Attract particular species by choosing the right foods, plants, trees, water sources, and nesting

materials

• Create a garden, region by region, that will be an oasis for birds and butterflies

• Instantly recognize, and attract, those birds you are most likely to see-including the top birds found

nationally as well as in Eastern and Western locations

• Identify species by field marks, plumage, and more

• Make your yard the hummingbird capital of the neighborhood

• Fend off predators and other uninvited backyard guests