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BIRDSBIRDSRELATED TITLES & PRODUCTS

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

What's Inside:
  • A Bird Up Close
  • Anatomy of a Feather
  • Birds' Eggs
  • Songs and Mimicry
  • Diet and Migration
  • Bird-Watching
  • Extinct and Endangered Birds
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"Birds touch us as few other animals do. Watch a falcon soar, and something soars within us. Listen to a sparrow's song, and it's hard to keep from whistling back. What makes birds so special? Other animals, such as bats and bees, also have wings. But birds rule the airways."
RELATED TITLES & PRODUCTS
RAIN FORESTSRAIN FORESTS
"Tropical rain forests are very special places. They cover only about 7 percent of the earth's land, but they are home to half of the earth's animal and plant species. These hot and humid regions have yearly rainfalls of at least 75 inches. In some places 325 inches of rain may fall in a year! (The average annual rainfall in Spokane, Washington, by comparison, is around 16 inches.) Temperatures in . . . "
ECOLOGYECOLOGY
"That's the first step in ecology-- looking around. Your house, for instance, is an ideal place to start. It's perfect for a big mammal like you. Yet, it's also home to spiders, insects, and maybe the occasional mouse. Just outside are birds, squirrels, frogs, grasses, trees, flowering plants, rocks, dirt, and even more insects. When you look around at living things and their environment, you are. . . "
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
CHILDREN'S BOOKS
  • Backyard Birds, by Karen Stray Nolting. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1999.
  • How Do Birds Find Their Way?, by Roma Gans. HarperCollins Children's Books, 1996.
  • Bird, Nests, and Eggs by Mel Boring. T&N Children's Publishing, 1998.
  • Bird (DK Eyewitness Books Series), by David Burnie. DK Publishing, Inc., 2004.
  • Breathtaking Birds, by Buddy Davis & Kay Davis. Master Books, 2006.
ADULT BOOKS
  • National Audubon Society: The Sibley Guide to Birds, by David Allen Sibley & The National Audubon Society. Knopf Publishing Group, 2000.
  • Bedside Book of Birds: An Avian Miscellany, by Graeme Gibson. Doubleday Publishing, 2005.
  • The Singing Life of Birds: The Art and Science of Listening to Birdsong, by Donald E. Kroodsma.
  • National Geographic Complete Birds of North America, edited by Jonathan Alderfer. National Geographic Society, 2005.
  • Birds, by Robert Bateman. Random House, Incorporated, 2003.
WEBSITES
  • Teaching Kids About Birds: http://www.wildbirds.com/kids_teaching.htm
  • Bird Feeder Projects: http://www.osweb.com/kidzkorner/feeder.htm
  • All About Birds: http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/birds/
COMMUNITY RESOURCES
  • Listing of public and private zoos across the country:
    http://www.clickets.com/targets/Education/zoos.asp