Backyard Birds, A Beginner's Guide to Backyard Birds in Southwestern Ontario

Have you ever wondered how a Northern Cardinal gets its bright red feathers or what kind of woodpecker is making holes in your trees? It’s time to get to know the birds living in your backyard. With beautiful photographs of each bird taken by Paul Roedding of Paul Roedding Photography and vivid descriptions written by Megan Switzer, you will quickly learn how to identify twenty-four different species of songbird, how to attract each of them to your yard or where to find them in the wild. New birders will discover the terminology to describe the birds they are seeing, as well as several interesting facts about local wildlife. Once you learn to identify these birds, record your own bird sightings with the convenient checklist in the back of the book!