Backyard Birds of Winter

by Carol Lerner

A beginner's guide to winter bird-watching features information about the appearance, range, and habits of more than forty common North American birds

Genres: Nature, Picture Books, Science, Animals, Nonfiction, Childrens, Birds

48 pages, Hardcover

First published October 1, 1994

Reviews

[Hildie · Rating 5 out of 5]

While originally intended for children, I really enjoyed reading this! It's not terribly expansive, but there truly aren't too many species one can call to their backyard feeder outside of what is mentioned here. The illustrations are wonderful, and all in all I realized that I knew quite a bit less about common North American birds than I thought I did.
Would be a nice, small addition to a homeschooling library!

[Rachel · Rating 4 out of 5]

The illustrations are wonderful and the descriptions of all the birds are very fun to read! There are a lot of fun facts that I hadn't known before. I also appreciated that the book didn't focus just on the backyard birds of the northeast, which I think is common with backyard bird books. It was nice to learn about the chestnut-backed chickadee, the mountain chickadee, varied thrush, and the Florida scrub jay, which I didn't realize is a threatened bird unique to the scrub land in Florida. There is a very good description of types of bird food and ways to feed birds at the end. It was also neat to see a little shout-out to Project FeederWatch at the end too!

[Lady reading under the Willow · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a great book to use as a detailed field guide and reference book. If you are interested in learning about the different birds, you may enjoy reading through all the text; I did. My kids did not. They thought it was boring. Admittedly, it was not written in a living way; it was very factual and did read like a field guide, so it wasn't great as a science read-aloud. But the illustrations were beautiful, and we liked looking at them all and seeing if we could name the birds without looking at the text.

[Hilary · Rating 4 out of 5]

Detailed lifesize bird illustrations.

[Alyssa Bohon · Rating 4 out of 5]

Perfect for reading with the kids to go with our backyard bird feeder watching - colorful, informative, nice big picture book.

[Clive]

Notes: Text-heavy but nice, didn’t use—good for older child, maybe 5+

[Karen · Rating 4 out of 5]

On our way to a program at the library, my five-year-old son started asking me about birds. So, when we got to the library, I checked out this book.

The illustrations are beautifully done and make recognition easy, and the text was just the right length and information for a young reader/listener.