Combines the story of manned flight with a celebration of nature's great fliers, from birds to insects. Discover how human designers borrow ideas from the natural world to build today's sophisticated machines.
A retelling of the Sufi parable, "The Conference of the Birds," a poem written in the thirteenth century, in which the birds of the Earth face seven invisible monsters in order to save the world.
Provides photographs and descriptions of 120 species of birds that live in New York, each with information on physical characteristics, migration, and food preferences, as well as notes by the author; grouped by color, with range maps.
The dodo went extinct more than 300 years ago. This flightless bird was larger than a turkey and had a hooked beak that helped it catch fish. Learn more about this remarkable animal in Dodo, an Extinct Animals book.
