Birding is an excellent hobby and way for people to explore their neighbors with feathers and appreciate the natural habitat and their surroundings. Many bird followers and lovers are dweebs and upon seeing what author Mike O'Conner looks like I was easily able to identify him as a birder. O'Conner wrote an excellent book of people asking complex bird questions concerning attracting birds to their yards, the odd sounds some make, or just about any observation of birds people may happen to have written in this informative Q and A book. The book is called "Why Do Bluebirds Hate Me" and in this book O'Conner answers this question and several others he has collected from various folks through the years and were of most interest to him having been privately asked these question by folks knowing his expertise.
O'Conner is the leading bird author out there and he knows it all about birds although I was disappointed little was mentioned on the parakeets. I am expecting perhaps his third book and work to be all about Americas most popular bird out th...pet bird out there. I couldn't put down this book and had to see every human question and their thoughts about us birds.
The most interesting account of this book is the spreading of cattle egrets and this vegetarian heron and egret that was unknown in North America until 1940 where a flock flew from Africa and settles nice and cozy in North and South America. The migration and new settlement of these birds likely had something to due with the destruction of their original habitat from an ever increasing African population. The cattle egret of course is not a vegetarian and is commonly seen in fields and near cattle because the big animals provide a lot of tasty ticks and they disperse small creatures and flush them out for the egrets to nibble. An overall great book to read and get perhaps some of your own personal inquiries of birds answered by a dude wgo would know all about it. 
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