birds

Eleven-year-old Fortuna Dalliance is asked by the weird Baldwin sisters to convince Martin, a distinctly bird-like boy, to return to his true form as a swallow but Fortuna is not sure she is willing to lose her new friend.

In the world of Down, young sisters Summer and Bird are separated and go in very different directions as they seek their missing parents, try to vanquish the evil Puppeteer, lead the talking birds back to their Green Home, and discover the identity of the true bird queen.

When Tommo, aged about fifteen years, runs away from an apprenticeship as a spellgrinder, he begs for sanctuary and is forced to attempt an impossible journey to leave his country, but help arrives in very unexpected forms.

Text and color photographs teach how to watch, identify, and attract birds by providing food, water, and nestboxes. Includes profiles of eighty of the most commonly observed birds in North America.

Describes the annual autumn gathering of bald eagles in Glacier National Park and examines the work of the wildlife research project that bands the birds for later tracking that will provide information on the habits and life cycle of our national bird.

Ace and Bub's plans for a quiet vacation are put on hold when they are stranded on an island where their nemesis, Walter, has stirred up trouble between the birds and the rabbits.

Provides identification information and color photographs of 508 birds of eastern North America.

Owly learns that sometimes you have to make sacrifices and work at things that are important, especially friendship.

Owly figures out why he can't fly, and helps another forest creature with his own flying problems.

This book, in basic field guide format, introduces thirteen songbirds. Range maps are included.