Kategoria BISAC: Juvenile Nonfiction >> Animals - Birds

Birds don't need maps

Many birds make long journeys twice each year as they migrate between their winter and summer homes. Arctic terns fly more than 10,000 miles from the South Pole to northern Maine. Tiny little hummingbirds fly nonstop over the ocean for 500 miles. How do they know which way to fly? Why don't they get lost? Read and find out the many ideas scientists have come up with to explain this mystery.

Including the red-winged blackbird, painted bunting, wood duck, great blue heron, ruby-throated hummingbird, purple finch, and blue jay, 46 different species of birds from all parts of the United States are included in this book. The pictures have been faithfully redrawn by Paul E. Kennedy from originals by John James Aububon (1785-1851), the most famous American painter-naturalist.
For each species, the caption supplies the modern common and scientific names and the current range (by general region). No distinction is made between breeding range and winter range. Only the area of the...

Birdwatchers, or "birders," keep life lists in which they note their first sighting of a species indicating the date, place, habitat, etc. This easy-to-read, fact-filled workbook will help young birdwatchers begin keeping their own life lists as they learn about 48 common North American birds among them the blue jay, American crow, ruby-throated hummingbird, yellow-billed cuckoo, mourning dove, barn owl, red-tailed hawk, northern oriole, red-winged blackbird, and red-headed woodpecker.
Written and illustrated by nature artist Sy Barlowe, the book includes space on each page for a...

you'll learn the answers to questions like these:

• How many kinds of pelicans are there?
• How do pelicans hunt for food?
• Do pelicans steal fish from fishermen?
• How high can a pelican fly?
• What do baby pelicans look like?
• Where do pelicans make their nests?

So come along and let's take a tour to see where pelicans live and why they do what they do. You will even learn how to make a collage pelican and fold up an...

• Why is it called the Bald Eagle?
• What do eagles eat?
• How strong are eagles?
• How well can an eagle see?
• How fast can an eagle fly?
• Where in the world do eagles live?