American Wildlife and Plants: A Guide To Wildlife Food Habits

This is one of the best wildlife/ plant books I own, and I have a lot. I find myself opening this book at least once a week. It is very unique because it allows you to look up a plant to see which wildlife use it, or look up a certain type of wildlife to see which plant communities it uses. I am using this book to choose natural plants for the landscaping at my home, and I am also using it to select plants for a wildlife management project on a 200 acre tract of land. Despite its age, it contains a wealth of accurate information. It is easy to read and informative to all people regardless of their background in wildlife and plant management.

Somewhat outdated, but a good book to have around for reference.A fairly complete and large selection of plants, animals,and different foods used by different birds and mammals.Also included is information on marsh and water related plants and birds.

There is SO MUCH info in this book. I think its terrific. Here are the chapters:Part I: Introductory Chapters- The Plant roots of wildlifeFarm crops and wildlifeWildlife food habitas studiesPart II: Animals and their foodWaterbirdsMarsh & ShorebirdsUpland game birdsSongbirdsBirds of preyFur and game mammalsSmall mammalsHoofed browsersFish, amphibians & reptilesPart III: Plants useful to WildlifeWoody plantsUpland weeds and herbsMarsh & Aquatic plantsCultivated plantsWildlife plants ranked according to their valueFor each ofthe birds there is a map oftheir range, a brief paragrapgh on where they live/where they migrate to, animal food they eat, plant food they eat (with specific plants listed)For the animal sections it the same sort of info - a map of their range, a tidbit of info on the animal, and then animal and plant foods they eat with the plants listed out. In the plant sections, similar to the others there is a map of the range, some quite interesting tidbits about the plants, andt hen a listing of who eats them.Refernces are given for each entry so you can look up additional info if you wanted to.I really love this book. I was hoping to attract flying squirrels when I discovered using this book that we already have the habitat they love....one day last summer something jumped onto our screen window and scurried about......it was a flying squirrel. Pretty cool! I keep planting plants for wildlife and its been a lot of fun to see who comes to visit. i do cross refernce the plants in here with other books so I can be sure that what I'm planting is native rather than an exotic and so I can get a feel for what the plant needs/will do. High;y recommended!!

This book was a required by my professor in my Wildlife Techniques class in college. This book is old, as all Dover Press books are but the information in this book is extremely detailed. This book works two ways. You can look up the animal you are interested in to find out what it eats or you can look up plants and see what animals eat them. This book is must if you are curious to see what wildlife is interested in eating especially if you are interested in attracting wildlife to your property or maybe getting rid of the plants that are causing too much wildlife to be on your property.