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Make your backyard more bird-friendly by providing natural habitats for a wide variety of wildlife!From the National Wildlife Federation, the largest U.S. nonprofit conservation organization, with 6 million members and 51 state and territorial affiliated organizationsMore than a dozen step-by-step projects from the National Wildlife Federation make getting your family back to nature easy, educational, and funOver 200 color photos and illustrationsLearn wildlife-friendly gardening practices, landscape designs, and family projectsLearn how to attract backyard pollinators - an important consideration as bee populations declineA backyard can come alive by creating an environment with plants and spaces that attract nature's most interesting and friendly creatures! Colorful butterflies, uplifting songbirds, and lively toads can enhance the personal garden space, giving pleasure to nature lovers of all ages.National Wildlife Federation: Attracting Birds, Butterflies & Other Wildlife to Your Backyard, 2nd Edition provides over a dozen step-by-step projects for families to do together, making getting back to nature easy, educational, and fun!Author David Mizejewski presents simple plans for reintroducing native plants that birds, butterflies, and a whole host of critters can't resist. He also provides new information on attracting backyard pollinators - a major issue for environmentalists as bee populations decline.Ben Franklin Award Winner, Publishers Marketing Association.
About the Author
David Mizejewski is a naturalist with the National Wildlife Federation. He holds a degree in Human and Natural Ecology from Emory University and has hosted television series on both Animal Planet and NatGeo WILD. He regularly appears on NBC's?Today Show and does dozens of other television and public appearances each year to promote wildlife conservation. He specializes in urban ecology, the role that native plants have on wildlife populations, and helping people restore wildlife habitat in their cities, towns, neighborhoods, backyards, and gardens.
