Guides

Welcome to Drawn to Birds, the bird book for people who love birds! This beautiful and unique watercolor sketchbook captures the enchan...

How to Feed Backyard Birds: A Step-by-Step Guide for Kids is the perfect resource for beginners who are young (and not so young) to discover the ...

Tracking Made Easy – from the Backyard to the BackwoodsYou’ve seen animal tracks while hiking, camping, or even in your backyard. Now learn what ma...

This splendid book traces the journeys of more than 80 pioneering botanists who explored the unknown world and collected thousands of unusual plant...

Each spring in the United States, old-timers and new converts to morel hunting appear in the woods in search of the elusive but distin...

Foraging involves finding, identifying and harvesting wild edible plants. It is a healthy outdoor activity that puts one in touch with nature and p...

Bird-watching is one of life’s simple joys. Seeing a colorful friend flit about your backyard brings feelings of excitement, gladness, and con...

 Award-winning photographer Stan Tekiela takes you into the fascinating world of cranes, herons and egrets. His striking photography captures ...

David Allen Sibley wrote and illustrated this book to help every inquisitive birder, from novice to expert. Whether you can identify six birds or...

This guide profiles 40 common feeder birds found in Northeast along with feeder types and recommended foods for attracting each species.

This guide offers information on the basic types of nest structures, typical nesting habits for each species, how many eggs a nest may contain, wha...

Introduce children to 10 common animals—and their babies—that live in the forest with this wildlife-themed board book. Board books p...

Say “good morning” with a heartwarming board book that pays homage to nature and wildlife. Open your eyes, stretch your arms, and ga...

Turtles are among the most fascinating, attractive, easily recognized and loved vertebrates on the planet. Yet, of the hundreds of species worldwid...

Bees play a vitally important role in the pollination of native plants and agricultural crops around the globe. Common Bees of Eastern North Americ...

With Bringing Nature Home, Doug Tallamy changed the conversation about gardening in America. His second book, the New York Times bestseller Nature’...

Gleason’s Plants of Michigan is a major revision and expansion of The Plants of Michigan by Henry A. Gleason—the 1918 classic field guide to the fl...

Dragonflies are as fascinating as they are beautiful. In this book readers will learn how to observe them in the wild and have them hover as close ...

Many birders travel far and wide to popular birding destinations to catch sight of rare or “exotic” birds. In Slow Birding, evolutionary biologist ...

 Jam-packed with tons of awesome information, World of Pollinators teaches children the importance of pollinators, along with exciting outdoor DIY ...

The bold yellow color of the male American Goldfinch is a welcome sight in any summer garden. And the pleasing songs and high-pitched calls of all ...

Find Your Way to Michigan’s Most Beautiful Waterfalls!Waterfalls create a feeling of serenity, a sense of restrained power. Their grandeur takes ou...

Charley Harper and Edie McKee met on the first day of school at the Art Academy of Cincinnati in 1940. They studied together, fell in love, survive...

As incredible as it sounds, fossils are all around us, waiting to be discovered. Become a young paleontologist. Learn all about ancient life forms ...