birds

Offers facts about vultures, including where they live, how they hunt, and how they survive in the wild.

"In 2015, Noah Strycker, a young American birder, became the first person to see more than half of the 10,000 bird species on planet Earth in one year. Traveling to forty-one countries on seven continents with just a small backpack, a pair of binoculars, and a series of one-way tickets, Noah not only set a new world record, he also captured the hearts and imaginations of people all over the world"--Provided by publisher.

"A radical investigation into the bird way of being, and the recent scientific research that is dramatically shifting our understanding of birds--how they live and how they think"--Amazon.

How similar are your choices, behaviours, and lifestyle to those of a parrot? We humans are not like other mammals. We look like them, but we don't act like them. In fact, many of our defining human traits: our longevity, intelligence, monogamy and childrearing, and learning and language, all deep parts of what it means to be human, are far more similar to birds than to our fellow mammals. These similarities originate not from shared ancestors but from parallel histories. Our evolutionary stories have pushed humans and birds to the same solutions. In this book, Antone Martinho-Truswell explores these similarities to argue that we can learn a great deal about ourselves by thinking of the human species as 'the bird without feathers'. This is also a book about convergent evolution - evolution that drives very different species to very similar outcomes and behaviours.

Parrots are the fourth most popular pet in the United States. They can learn to speak like humans do. Discover more in this title.

"This Latin American tale follows three princes as they search for a magical bird to cure their father's blindness. Pedro, the youngest brother, soon discovers that only kindness can earn help from the Bird Sweet Magic. But his brothers grow jealous of the bird's gifts to Pedro . . ."--Back cover.

"Simple text and full-color photography introduce beginning readers to California condors"--Provided by publisher.

This title tells about the albatrosses, the Earth's largest flying bird.

"When a baby eagle breaks out of its egg, it has soft, fluffy feathers. The tiny bird lives in a nest and gets food from its parents. As the eaglet gets bigger, it grows new feathers, too. Follow along with this beautiful bird as it flaps its wings for the first time, learns to fly, and eventually leaves the nest to live on its own. Simple text paired with . . . pictures helps build reading confidence for animal-loving early readers"--Provided by publisher.

[from back cover]: Get ready to dive into the hidden world of birds! You'll learn all about the birds that live around you--from chimney swifts to horned larks--and find step-by-step guidance on how to identify them.