San Antonio College Library

Create beautiful habitats for the songbirds in your region. Included are landscape plans for any garden style; dictionary of trees, shrubs, perennials, annuals, and vines. Birdbaths and feeders are discussed.

Before the massive environmental change wrought by the European colonization of the South, hundreds of species of birds filled the region's flyways in immeasurable numbers. Before disease, war, and displacement altered the South's earliest human landscape, Native Americans hunted and ate birds and made tools and weapons from their beaks, bones, and talons. More significant to Shepard Krech III, Indians adorned themselves with feathers, invoked avian...