birds

This books describes and illustrates all the bird (avian) families, provides an understanding of bird behavior, and traces the inteaction of birds and people through the centuries.

After ten unhappy years of marriage, David's wife is at last dead. Now Patty follows him everywhere nagging, criticizing, and insulting him just as his wife did, but Patty is only a mynah bird. Or is she?.

Describes the bodies, diets, life cycle, behavior, and talents of numerous kinds of birds, as well as threats to their survival.

Answers such questions about birds as why a budgie cocks its head, which bird likes to paddle in the mud, and whose nest has central heating.

Presents a comprehensive examination of birds, their history, the various species and their habitats, and discusses which birds are the slowest, fastest, smallest, and largest, and the differences in their wings.