About All-Birds

This site is all about birds.  You can find tips and information on identifying birds. You can learn about their habitats, parts and anatomies, what they eat and much more.

Find tips and advice on bird watching and attracting them to your yard. With food, water, birdhouses, feeders and landscaping you can attract many different kinds of birds to your yard.

Some might ask why I would create a website about birds.

As a boy growing up in Missoula Montana I was captivated by the ever-changing variety of colorful birds visiting our yard. We associated spring with Robins hopping around our lawn searching for worms. I can remember the fist time I saw a mud and weed nest with the light blue Robin eggs in it.

Other visitors were Waxwings, Sparrows, Downy Woodpeckers, Starlings and several kinds of Hummingbirds. There were many more but these are the ones that stick in my mind. I learned to recognize many by their musical songs and calls and even their shapes and silhouettes.

We would get huge flocks of Evening Grosbeaks that would feed on the berry trees in our yard.  They seem to especially like the Mountain Ash berries. My parents still have the yard. I notice now that the kinds of birds coming have changed. It has been a long time since I have seen a Grosbeak there, but there are many other birds such as Flickers and Finches that have taken their place.

In the evening we could watch Swallows and Bats zooming through the sky catching insects.

We had many different trees in our yard and there was always a chorus of sound and color from the many different birds.

Out of the hundreds of different birds, I have chosen some of my favorites and created more in depth pages about them.  I will add more pages over time.

You can start anywhere but Bird Watching Tips is as good as any. Enjoy…

Sources for content and pictures

After going over my own notes I filled the large gaps of knowledge by spending many hours at the public libraries. I tried hard not to use any copyrighted material without permission. A few of the pictures used are mine however most pictures were public domain. If I have the photographers name and other information, credit is given with each image. If you find something of yours on this site that you would like removed please let me know. Below is a partial list of sources I referenced for content.

Works by Bent, Arthur Cleveland. 1939
Birds of Eastern and Central North America by Roger Tory Peterson
Bird Sounds and Their Meanings by Rosemary Jellis
Favorite Backyard Birds by Kit and George Harrison
All the Birds of North America by Jack L Griggs
Nests Eggs and Nestlings of North American Birds by Paul J. Baicich and Colin J.o. Harrison
The Migration of Birds
Field Guide to Western Birds 1961 by Tory Peterson
Birding Around th World by Aileen Lotz
Birds of North America by Fred J. Alseop
Birds of North America by Kenn Kaufman
All The Birds
Bird Brains by Candace Savage
Mater Guide to Birding by Scott Saul
Book of Birds by John Goodens

Again I tried not to use copyrighted material without permission.  If you find something of yours on this site that you would like removed please let me know.