Hummingbirds of North America

." . .this is an informative and entertaining book that should appeal to both casual birders and research ornithologists, not to mention hummingbird enthusiasts." ""Hummingbirds of North America." . offers all sorts of interesting information about hummers, including where and how they migrate." "Here is a really terrific book about hummingbirds, full of information based on the author's years of observations (and bringing to bear his formal training as a meteorologist and a pilot), on his thorough familiarity with what has been published about hummingbirds, and on his meetings and correspondence with other hummingbird devotees. . . . He provides interesting and often new information on such matters as mating and nesting, the relationship of blooming flowers to migration . . . the placement of feeders, and the controlling of bees and wasps."