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1) Bird
Author
Series
Publisher
DK Pub
Edition
Revised edition.
Language
English
Description
A photo essay on the world of birds examining such topics as body construction, feathers and flight, the adaptation of beaks and feet, feeding habits, courtship, nests and eggs, and bird watching.
2) Inch by inch
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
To keep from being eaten, an inchworm measures a robin's tail, a flamingo's neck, a toucan's beak, a heron's legs, and a nightingale's song.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Flight Paths is the never-before-told story of how a group of migration-obsessed scientists in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries engaged nearly every branch of science to understand bird migration--from where and when they take off to their flightpaths and behaviors, their destinations and the challenges they encounter getting there."--
Author
Series
Arabel and Mortimer series volume 2
Language
English
Description
Presents three previously published works about a pet raven named Mortimer, who talks, eats everything in sight, and causes all sorts of trouble.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Explore more than two hundred species, and more than 330 new illustrations by the author, in this special, large-format volume, where many of the primary illustrations are reproduced life-sized. While its focus is on familiar backyard birds--blue jays, nuthatches, chickadees--What It's Like to Be a Bird also examines certain species that can be fairly easily observed, such as the seashore-dwelling Atlantic puffin. ... And while the text is aimed...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Birds are astonishingly intelligent creatures. In fact, according to revolutionary new research, some birds rival primates and even humans in their remarkable forms of intelligence. Like humans, many birds have enormous brains relative to their size. Although small, bird brains are packed with neurons that allow them to punch well above their weight. In The Genius of Birds, acclaimed author Jennifer Ackerman explores the newly discovered brilliance...
Author
Series
Arabel and Mortimer series volume 1
Language
English
Description
Presents three previously published works about a pet raven named Mortimer, who talks, eats everything in sight, and causes all sorts of trouble.
8) Hey, Al
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Language
English
Description
A city janitor and his treasured canine companion are transported by a large colorful bird to an island in the sky, where their comfortable paradise existence threatens to turn them into birds as well.
9) Stellaluna
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Pub. Date
[1993]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
After she falls headfirst into a bird's nest, a baby bat is raised like a bird until she is reunited with her mother.
11) Cardinals
Author
Series
Publisher
Cavendish Square Publishing
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
12) A most remarkable creature: the hidden life and epic journey of the world's smartest birds of prey
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In 1833, Charles Darwin was astonished by an animal he met in the Falkland Islands: handsome, social, and oddly crow-like falcons that were "tame and inquisitive . . . quarrelsome and passionate," and so insatiably curious that they stole hats, compasses, and other valuables from the crew of the Beagle. Darwin wondered why these birds were confined to remote islands at the tip of South America, sensing a larger story, but he set this mystery aside...
Author
Series
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children, an imprint of Disney Book Group
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
49 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Yellow Bird has found a button and wants to share it with Red Bird and Blue Bird. This is just an ordinary button. It does not do anything when you press it. But when Red Bird and Blue Bird give it try, they are delighted to find that the button does not do nothing, and that is something!"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Children's Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
48 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Did you know that male birds of paradise have some of the fanciest feathers of any bird? Their beautiful plumage helps them win mates--but it doesn't make flying any easier!" -- back cover.
17) Weird birds
Author
Publisher
Firefly Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
64 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Some birds look bizarre. Some behave that way. In almost all cases, their appearance has an important function-- in evolution or every day. This colorful book exposes more than 50 strange birds, preening, stretching, and showing their strange bodily adaptations. Beautiful photographs that show the birds in sharp, clear detail and informative captions that provide fascinating details about the lives of these intriguing creatures.
18) Bizarre birds
Author
Publisher
Boyds Mills Press
Language
English
Description
Text and photographs explore the unique habits of birds from our back yards and around the world.
19) The best nest
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Mr. and Mrs. Bird search for a place to build a new nest only to discover their old one is better.
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