TY  - BOOK
AU  - Jones,Darryl
TI  - The Birds at My Table: Why We Feed Wild Birds and Why It Matters
SN  - 9781501710797
AV  - QL676.5 
U1  - 598.07234 
PY  - 2018///
CY  - Ithaca
PB  - Cornell University Press
KW  - Birds-Feeding and feeds
KW  - Birds-Effect of human beings on
KW  - Human-animal relationships
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - THE BIRDS AT MY TABLE -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Why Bird Feeding Matters -- 2. Crumbs to Corporations: The Extraordinary History and Growth of Bird Feeding -- 3. The Big Change: Winter or Always? -- 4. The Feeder Effect: What All That Food Can Do -- 5. What Happens When We Feed? Insights from Supplementary Feeding Studies -- 6. Tainted Table? Can Feeding Make Birds Sick? -- 7. Feeding for a Purpose: Supplementary Feeding as Conservation -- 8. Reasons Why We Feed Wild Birds -- 9. Bird Feeding Matters Even More Now: The Promise and Risks of a Global Phenomenon -- Appendix: Species Mentioned in the Text -- Notes -- References -- Index
N2  - Darryl Jones is fascinated by bird feeders. Not the containers supplying food to our winged friends, but the people who fill the containers.Why do people do this? Jones asks in The Birds at My Table. Does the food even benefit the birds? What are the
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