A beautiful book with so much useful information. You can tell it was project she enjoyed doing. Can’t wait to try out some of the suggestions to help the birds that do visit our yard and maybe draw some new ones.

As an avid birdwatcher, I was excited to start this book and see how I get even more birds to visit my garden. The author focused on cultivating native plant gardens to support the wildlife in one's location. Each recommended plant, tree, and shrub describes their importance in various habitats. Similar options which are not native to the geographical location. And how to add them into your garden/yard. All of the one hundred plants feature beautiful pictures as well as a guide on how they help birds. For example, whether a tree provides a habitat for bugs that are in a bird's dietary needs. Or which flowers have seeds that the birds harvest in the fall. The information was imparted logically and was not overwhelming for the reader. I'm excited to search for some of the native plants that I can use to create a better bird habitat.

This book is so enjoyable! The pictures are clear, colorful and elegant. This book would be a great gift for bird and plant lovers. Many plants that can be grown in order to feed the birds in whichever growth zone you live in. A great book for learning the different types of birds their eating habits and the different flowers. Love the colors!

This is a big thank you to NetGalley, Laura Erickson and Storey Publishing for sending me an arc in exchange for an honest review. In five words: I loved this reference book.

It was loaded with simple, but descriptive language, colorful photos and peppered with interesting facts. If you don’t know it already, our birds are in peril. Some are on the border of extinction and others are already gone. Cornell University did a study and ”found that 2.9 billion migratory birds have been lost from the U.S. and Canada since 1970” alone. Imagine what is going on around the world?

Usually if I read a reference book in e-format and love it, I want the book in hardcover or paperback because I don’t think the e-format does it justice. Not so with the version they sent to my NetGalley shelf. Seriously, I will return again and again to access this book. It was that interesting.

Practical advice for long-term planning: what to plant, what not to plant, and why. I particularly enjoyed the information about common invasive plants. She includes in her list of bird-friendly plants some species of plants that I wouldn't dream of having in my yard on purpose: Virginia Creeper and Sumac. They both seem fairly invasive to me in that they will make themselves right at home and edge out other plants. But, apparently, birds love 'em!
For each plant in the book, Erickson includes information to help you make the best choices for your area about soil requirements, native range, sun exposure requirements, growing season, maximum height, etc.
This book doesn't publish until December 2022 and the galley didn't include the promised glossary or index but it did include a couple of lists I think readers will appreciate: Favorite Plants of Common North American Birds and North American Native Plant Societies. Storey typically provides great illustrations in their titles so I look forward to the finished product!

100 Plants to Feed the Birds
by Laura Erickson
Pub Date: December 20, 2022
Storey Publishing
Thanks to the author, publisher, and NetGalley for this great ARC! It's a beautiful book and gives lots of ideas on what to plant to feed the birds. I loved it and plan to gift it to my husband who is an avid bird watcher.
The growing group of bird enthusiasts who enjoy feeding and watching their feathered friends will learn how they can expand their activity and help address the pressing issue of habitat loss with 100 Plants to Feed the Birds. In-depth profiles offer planting and care guidance for 100 native plant species that provide food and shelter for birds throughout the year, from winter all the way through breeding and migrating periods. Readers will learn about plants they can add to their gardens and cultivate, such as early-season pussy willow and late-season asters, as well as wild plants to refrain from weeding out, like jewelweed and goldenrod. Others, including 29 tree species, may already be present in the landscape and readers will learn how these plants support the birds who feed and nest in them. The introductory text explains how to create a healthy year-round landscape for birds. Plant photographs and range maps provide needed visual guidance for selecting the right plants for any location in North America.
5 stars

Love the pics and information. The ARC version not easy to move through, I'm used to kindle downloads so it was not easy trying to look through and find things. I'm waiting to see the kindle version to feed my birds this summer!

*I voluntarily reviewed this after receiving a complimentary copy.

This is an in-depth and easy-to-understand book that helps you build the perfect long-term backyard habitat for wild birds. At first, just looking through the book, the amount of information given can be a bit overwhelming. As someone who just started using bird feeders a year ago, I had no idea how much there was to know about creating the best possible environment for my winged friends.
However, the information is presented in a way that is both friendly to beginners and still interesting to those who have more experience. It has so many useful tips (invasive plants, different perspectives..etc) and includes details for each season as well. I love how organized the book is too. It is set up to be more than just a book you read once and then move on. It is the perfect book to have on hand to use as a constant reference when changing things up in your outdoor space.

100 Plants to Feed the Birds: Turn Your Home Garden into a Healthy Bird Habitat is a gardening and landscape design resource book by Laura Erickson. The eBook version is around 256 pages and has tons of full-color photos of various birds and plants.

The book is separated into two parts. Part one details how to create a good habitat in your home garden for local birds. Erickson notes that though over 50 million North Americans feed birds, the suet, sugar water, and birdseed they provide doesn't actually offer a complete and balanced diet for any of them.

Locally native plants are very important to add to home landscaping in order to help support American birds. These plants are great for overall bird welfare, as they can produce seeds, fruits, nectar, and other essential foods for our feathered friends (like insects that birds need for protein). They can also provide nesting materials as well as roosting and nesting sites. There are quite a few pages noting how important it is to avoid non-native and invasive plants.

The second part of the book is a lot bigger than part one, and details the eponymous 100 plants that support birds that were mentioned in the title. These plants are separated by type: coniferous trees, broadleaf trees, grasses, herbaceous plants, miscellaneous plants (like lichen), shrubs, vines, and cactus and yuccas. Each plant is detailed over several pages, including many images, their uses, what conditions they prefer, their most useful seasons, their colors, their maximum height, and a map with their native range.

In the back of the book, there is a chart of favorite plants of common North American birds. There are also further resources like a chart of North American native plant societies, a glossary of terms, and an index.

Special thanks to Storey Publishing and NetGalley for providing an eARC of this book for me to review. All opinions contained herein are my own.

Lovely book with beautiful colourful photographs. and details not only of plants to grow for food for the birds but also for shelter and nesting.
Unfortunately the book is aimed at the North American market and in my opinion of little value in Britain. Certainly some of the plants are available to buy and plant here and no doubt some British birds would benefit but it is a tenuous link.
If a British version is ever produced, I would be very interested as it is a favourite pastime for me and I realise that habitat loss is taking it's toll on our wildlife.
With thanks to NetGalley and Storey Publishing for the preview read.
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Are you an avid bird watcher? Did the loss of bird activity during 2020 cause you dismay? Then 100 Plants to Feed the Birds is for you! The book has beautiful photos to compliment the vast plant and shrub information.
Organized first by plants (trees, grasses, shrubs) the book gives step by step directions to creating a space to "Birdscape your Property" Utilizing this book you will be able to add native and non native plants to your yard and enjoy bird watching again! #StoreyPublishing #NetGalley #NetGalleyReads

100 Plants to Feed the Birds offers an excellent guide to native plants to use in your yard to attract birds. It has all the information you need to choose the right plants for your area of the country and for the type of birds you would like to attract to your backyard. It is filled with beautiful pictures and descriptions of birds and plants as well as what the birds gain from each plant.
This book is a wealth of information that includes trees, shrubs, vines, grasses, herbaceous plants, cactus as well as plants that grow on the trees. This book can help you achieve a backyard that will be both attractive and help feed the bird year-round.
It is certainly a book that I will find useful in helping me choose the plants I want to add to my yard.

It’s a good thing to want to reach out to our feathered friends and serve them the best way we can. Knowledge is key. Difficult to accomplish but can be done with time and effort. This book helps bring a humongous amount of possibilities down to a much more doable project. But it is similar to starting out with a blank piece of paper. Start small and work up to more as time goes by. This is a great book of reference for a subject that truly makes sense of plants and birds.
I received an advanced reader copy for free from NetGalley and am voluntarily leaving my review.

You can't go wrong with the format that Storrey Publishing has created for their 100 series. Every book offers a dynamic format that draws in even the most leary who think they might not be able to make a dent in the much-needed habitat creation for wildlife. "100 Plants to Feed the Birds" does not disappoint! If you need suggestions for trees, shrubs, grasses, herbaceous plants, vines, cactus and yuccas, and even lichen and Spanish moss for birds this is the book!

Under each category, each one is listed alphabetically and a photo for each one, which is marvelous. The bird photos are spectacular and the book goes into great detail about what birds prefer what plant or tree.

I especially like the heavy lean to native but it's not excluding non-natives. I also appreciate that they said they would not be including invasives. Fantastic. There are many invasives that feed birds but the focus of this beautiful book is establishing habitat for birds that benefits biodiversity and bird health.

This book is worthy of inspiration book is worthy of gift-giving even to the most intimidated of gardeners. Laura Erickson has accomplished covering enough about plants and birds but not so much that the beginner won't be overwhelmed to try to incorporated plants to feed the birds. Hope you'll give this user-friendly highly inspiring book a try.

I was given access to an advanced reader copy in exchange for an honest review.

I really enjoyed looking through this book. I am planning a butterfly garden, and am also trying to upgrade some existing landscaping, and want to make the yard a little more wildlife friendly. This is a great resource for American (and Canadian) gardeners. The author suggests tons of native plants, including trees, shrubs and flowers suited to various geographic regions, and provides information on the birds and butterflies that rely on these plants for food and shelter.

I found it a great general resource, and the photographs were beautiful. It would be a great gift for a birdwatcher or gardener.

This book is a great reference for anyone who is a seasoned gardener or a novice, and is interested in helping to attract more birds to their yard or simply helping out the bird population. Being a seasoned gardener myself and someone who loves to see birds in our yard, I can honestly say that the information provided seems to be completely accurate regarding the native plants needed for this purpose. It also stresses the fact that planting natives will not only bring more and provide more food for birds, this will also bring more insects that are needed to feed birds and provide you with more butterflies. It all works together. The photos are beautiful and there are plenty 9f them to give the reader an idea of what the birds look like and the plants they like.

I really enjoyed this book. The photographs were stunning. I liked that the plants were grouped together by types and that the book also described insects, as well as birds, that would be attracted to the plants. I appreciate the emphasis on choosing locally native plants as well as a list in the back of Native Plant Societies with contact information. This will be a very handy guide as I decide which plants to purchase for the spring.

An avid xeriscaper, I was pleased to find so many of the plants in my yard listed in Erickson's book.. The photos were excellent, and the varieties of plants could easily be identified.

What a lovely book. Would make a great gift for anyone who loves birds, gardening and being in nature.

The information and different plants are extensive and well layed out so it's easy to follow. The photos and visuals are bright, beautiful & make it a pleasure to read.

Be advised: this book is for those living in North America - I wish there was a book like this available here! Loved it.

I love birds so I always try to find ideas to make them happier and this book is coming to the rescue for anyone who wants to take care of birds.