The Birdhouse Book

Attention birdwatchers, feeders of our feathered friends and crafty DIY's! THIS is the book you'll want to add to your library. I found the Audubon Birdhouse Book, Revised and Updated by Margaret Barker and Elissa Wolfson to be full of useful information on many of the birds I watch from my New England windows. The color pictures are completely helpful in the identification of many birds along with useful information on the species such as range, markings, voice and feeding. Nesting box preferences such as placement and egg laying are also discussed. This leads up to the best part and probably the reason most of us will acquire this book, the birdhouse building plans. These are user friendly designs with easily sourced materials that even a beginner woodworker would be able to complete. Along with diagrams, there are step by step color photos to follow along with. ensuring success and happy birds!
I came across some very helpful information regarding birds that prefer open houses or nesting wire and look forward to adding some to my yard (hear that, Morning Doves?). This book is going to make a great gift this year for Fathers Day. My husband is an avid feeder of our feathered friends who will surly get to work on the Owl Boxes ASAP.
Many thanks to Netgalley and Quarto Publishing Group – Cool Springs Press for the opportunity to read and review this electronic ARC. I absolutely loved it and gladly recommend it!

Birdhouses for all sorts of different birds! I have a bunch of bird feeders and love watching all the local birds come and go and have, recently, been looking around at bird houses to put out before Spring, and honestly, I had no idea different birds required different sizes and shapes of bird houses. I mean, it makes sense, you can't house a kestrel or an owl in your basic box-shaped birdhouse! But seriously, this is a great resource if you're looking to make your own birdhouses, especially if you want to tailor it to your local birds. I'm looking forward to building my own Flicker box!

Audubon Birdhouse Book, Revised and Updated: Building, Placing, and Maintaining Great Homes for Great Birds by Margaret A. Barker & Elissa Wolfson
Publisher: Quarto Publishing Group – Cool Springs Press
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies | Outdoors & Nature
Release Date: April 13, 2021

Audubon Birdhouse Book, Revised and Updated: Building, Placing, and Maintaining Great Homes for Great Birds by Margaret A. Barker & Elissa Wolfson is a wonderful resource for helping the birds in your area.

I am blessed with a variety of bird species in my area and love to watch them fly around & hear them sing. I try to ensure there is plenty of food options for them and make water available when needed. I've heard that different kinds of birds need different types of housing, so I was hesitant to build or buy anything. Thanks to this book, I'll be able to offer my birds a safe place to rest!

This book is filled with so much information and plans for the different types of bird boxes. I love how there is information about the types of birds and where they are found in the United States. I feel more confident that I will be able to help my birds!

I definitely recommend this book! There is so much quality information, great pictures, and easy to follow plans & instructions.

I'm so grateful to Margaret A. Barker & Elissa Wolfson, Quarto Publishing Group – Cool Springs Press, and NetGalley for providing me with a free copy of this ARC ebook in exchange for my honest review.

If you have an interest in birds and attracting them, then this book is for you! It is so full of information that will help you do this. From gardening for the birds to building homes that will benefit them and how to protect your bird friends from predators Each species of bird requires a different kind of home. Some of these differences are as little as the size of opening or the nesting material and this book helps with this. Very detailed instructions and plans are provided to assist in the creation of handmade bird homes.
This book would be an asset to add to your bookshelf!

Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for giving me the opportunity to read and review this terrific book!

Talk about excellent timing as bird watching has become more important this past year. This book is so inspiring, so lovely and very practical. Not only does it address climate change, keeping away predators and planting native plants to attract birds but focuses is on creating specific homes and roost boxes for our beloved friends with detailed instructions, measurements and photographs.

Zonal maps and nesting details/requirements are included as well. There are comparatively fewer birds in our northern Canada zone but this book is still very helpful for its information. The nest box designs are fantastic! I had no idea there was a specific triangular Lucy's Warbler nest box. We have flickers we'd love to have nest here and the nesting box in this book is brilliant! The L-shaped platform for barn swallows is so simple yet genius. Placing a cinder block into the entrance of a burrowing owl's home is equally genius. We don't have chimney swifts here but how I'd love to see them and their towers! It's so impossible to believe that chickadees overwinter in our -40C climate but they do. I often want to give them a more comfortable and protected place to roost.

If you're just developing an interest in birds or have been passionate about them for years, do read this book. Even if you do not plan on building nesting boxes or roosts for them there is a lot of information here. At the back of the book is a section on ornithology resources and organizations.

My sincere thank you to Quarto Publishing Group - Cool Springs Press and NetGalley for the privilege of reading this inspiring book!

The revised and updated Audubon Birdhouse Book is delightful. It gives a great deal of information on wild birds both in general and specific to classifications, along with detailed instructions on how to make simple birdhouses that nearly anyone can build. The book is filled with lovely photos and habitat maps, information on nesting habits and a great deal of interesting facts on each species covered. This is much more than just a book on how to build birdhouses! I highly recommend this book to anyone who is interested in backyard birding.

This is a very detailed, helpful guide to building and maintaining bird houses. It includes plans for a wide variety of bird houses for various birds, plus information on how to protect them from predators (no perches, site near brush, etc.) and maintain them. I learned a lot, including why so many of the ones on the market are terrible for birds and put them at risk. The plans are simple and designed for each specific bird. They are houses that you don't need much in terms of experience, tools or supplies to construct. There are lots of color photos throughout. It's altogether a fantastic guide.

I read a temporary digital ARC of this book for review.

Beautiful book show great ideas and pictures. Fun to look at but felt a little overwhelmed at times. If I had more confidence in my woodwork skills would like this more. Would make a great gift item. Would highly recommend this book.

If you're thinking of building a birdhouse (or several) in your yard, this is a useful volume to check out first. Includes general tips for thwarting predators, selecting the right box for the types of birds you want to attract, regional considerations, and more. Lots of photographs, plans, and instructions.

If I had a bigger yard, I'd buy this book for myself! This book covers far more than just birdhouses. It also provides background on a a wide range of birds, their habitats, and range. Of course it also shows the types of birdhouses best suited for each species. Even better it contains enough detail to allow you to build the birdhouse yourself.

The Audubon Birdhouse Book, Revised and Updated, is an invaluable resource to put on the bookshelves of anyone who is an avid birder or anyone who is the least bit handy working with wood and tools who would like to help out the birds. While reading the book in an electronic format is not ideal because the articles break over several pages and it can be hard to flip back and forth, the book is definitely worth the effort. The book takes you through why birds need our help and discusses how we can help them. Beginning in chapter 3, we are given a thorough view of how to build the homes the birds so desperately need and a brief overview of the birds using the designs we are building. The designs are laid out so simply, I believe anyone with the least bit of wood working knowledge could assemble them. In fact, I believe I could even assemble them, and I only have a basic understanding of how to use a saw or a drill. Also, the book gives information on where and how to mount the birdhouses you build to make them safe from predators, which is vital information.
The book shows you each bird’s “livable” range—in other words, where they live at some time during the year—and gives information on how to identify each bird species that we are building homes for. The range maps are taken from the Birds of the World (BOW) database from the Cornell Lab or Ornithology, so we know they are dependable. This is by no means a comprehensive list of birds and information about them, but it is extremely handy for the beginning birder. Since we know which houses attract which birds, and we know the bird’s range to show if they will be living in our area, we can fine tune our efforts to attract a certain species. If we desire more information about a specific bird after that, we can always get a book that is directed toward that species or we can peruse the internet to learn all about them.
The bottom line is, I want a copy of this book for my bookshelf. It checks off all the boxes for me. It tells about bird conservation, shows what birds are in need of assistance, shows how to assist them, and it gives some information about the bird species for us to use as we watch birds come to our newly built accommodations. So, what are you waiting for? Grab a copy today and start building homes that are safe and attractive for our feathered friends.