About the Book
Coloring enthusiasts, bird lovers, and flower gardeners will all delight in our biggest and most exciting new coloring book, Backyard Birds and Blossoms. This exciting new coloring book is set at home where the majority of America's birders and gardeners live and interact with nature every day.
Featuring glorious backyard birds with flowering annuals, perennials, trees, shrubs, and vines, each coloring page is intricately designed with scientific accuracy to create real and true connections with nature at home. As a BONUS feature, we've included a 30 wide poster that can be removed and colored for a wonderful extended experience. And this is our first coloring book to include our FREE downloadable BIRD QR app to tap, listen to bird sounds, and learn. Backyard Birds and Blossoms is the third adult coloring title from leading bird authority, the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, and this one dives deeper into what birders love as they enjoy their own personal great outdoors at home. For this special coloring book, we've assembled an A-team of contributors--Dr. Emma Ileana Greig, the Cornell Lab's Director of the renowned citizen science platform, Project FeederWatch; Stacy Tornio, former editor of Birds & Blooms Magazine and author of Bird Brainiacs; and Brenda Lyons, the illustrator who brought us America's Favorite Birds.
About the Author:
Dr. Emma Ileana Greig is the team leader of Project FeederWatch, a major citizen science program at the Cornell Lab, where people participate annually in a winter-long survey of birds that visit feeders at backyards, nature centers, community areas, and other locales in North America. FeederWatch data help scientists track broad movements of winter bird populations and long-term trends in bird distribution and abundance. Emma holds a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago and has studied birds in Australia, Malaysia, and Hawaii, and has taught sound recording workshops in Brazil.
Stacy Tornio has written seven nature and gardening books that all focus on getting kids and families outside, including
Bird Brainaics for the Cornell Lab Publishing Group. She is a native Oklahoman, who now resides in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where she enjoys watching her two children explore nature in their own backyard and beyond. She has numerous freelance credits to her name, and she was formerly the editor of the national birding and gardening magazine
Birds & Blooms. Stacy lives in Greenfield, WI.
Brenda Lyons is an illustrator from Manchester, Connecticut, whose work explores the natural world with a deep love and focus on birds. Her watercolor paintings capture birds and otherworldly avian creatures in realistic and dreamlike compositions, while she also paints fantastical worlds in acrylic, oils, as well as using pen and ink and graphite. Brenda is the author and illustrator of our
America's Favorite Birds: 40 Beautiful Birds to Color and
Winged Fantasy: Draw and Paint Magical and Mythical Creatures (IMPACT Books, 2014). She holds her B.A. in Art from Rocky Mountain College, and her M.F.A. in Illustration from the Savannah College of Art and Design. Brenda also volunteers the at Horizon Wings Raptor Rehabilitation and Education Center, helping care for sick and injured raptors and corvids, as well as community events and education programs.
