Feeding Wild Birds in America: Culture, Commerce, and Conservation

by Paul J Baicich, Margaret A Barker, and Carrol L Henderson

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Today, according to the US Fish and Wildlife Service, more than fifty million Americans feed birds around their homes, and over the last sixty years, billions of pounds of birdseed have filled millions of feeders in backyards everywhere. Feeding Wild Birds in America tells why and how a modest act of provision has become such a pervasive, popular, and often passionate aspect of people's lives.

Each chapter provides details on one or more bird-feeding development or trend including the "discovery" of seeds, the invention of different kinds of feeders, and the creation of new companies. Also woven into...Read more
  • ISBN10 1623492173
  • ISBN13 9781623492175
  • Publish Date 28 January 2015 (first published 1 January 2015)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Texas A&M University Press
  • Format eBook
  • Language English