Most highly recommended for all interested in wildlife, city planning, and urban ecology.'- Library Journal (starred review) 'This excellent book documents engagingly how wildlife has adapted to urban and suburban areas, often in surprising ways. By practicing careful stewardship with the biological riches in our cities and towns, Marzluff explains, we can foster a new relationship between humans and other living creatures-one that honors and enhances our mutual destiny. From tiny Pacific wrens to grand pileated woodpeckers, diverse species now compatibly share human surroundings. Over many years of research and fieldwork, Marzluff and student assistants have closely followed the lives of thousands of tagged birds seeking food, mates, and shelter in cities and surrounding areas. In this fascinating and optimistic book, John Marzluff reveals how our own actions affect the birds and animals that live in our cities and towns, and he provides ten specific strategies everyone can use to make human environments friendlier for our natural neighbors. Populations and communities of a great variety of birds, as well as other creatures, are adapting to the conditions of our increasingly developed world. Welcome to Subirdia presents a surprising discovery: the suburbs of many large cities support incredible biological diversity. Even as growing cities and towns pave acres of landscape, some bird species have adapted and thrived.

Welcome to Subirdia by John M. Marzluff