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Author
Pub. Date
2001.
Description
Designed to enhance the birding experience and to enrich the popular study of North American birds, the book combines more than 795 of full-color illustrations with authoritative text by 48 expert birders and biologist, This new guide shows how birds live and what they do. Introductory essays outlive the principles if avian evolution, life cycle, body structure, flight dynamics, and more. This is an indispensable source of information on the avian...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
Accurate enough to satisfy an expert, yet simple enough for baby, this book explores the basics of flight - from birds, to planes and rockets - and ties it all to baby's world. Beautiful, visually stimulating illustrations complement age-appropriate language to encourage baby's sense of wonder. Parents and caregivers may learn a thing or two, as well!
9) Birds
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Referring readers to Web sites specially chosen by Usborne editors and web researchers, this book takes a look at some of the amazing powers of birds flight, elaborate courtship displays, and incredible nest-building abilities.
10) Sweep up the sun
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
Simple poetic language and close-up photographs invite readers to take flight with the birds outside their windows.
12) Winged planet
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
State-of-the-art technology and innovative techniques show the world from an amazing aerial perspective. Viewers can fly along with snow geese dashing through Monument Valley and New York City. Watch Macaws racing through the rainforest, vultures soaring miles above the earth, and more.
15) Bone adventures
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.3 - AR Pts: 1
Formats
Description
"For the youngest fans of the bestselling graphic novel series BONE, Jeff Smith has created two hilarious tales to delight beginning readers. In Finders Keepers, the Bone cousins find a coin -- finders keepers! -- but the boys can't agree on how to spend it. Fone Bone wants an apple and bananas they can share. Smiley Bone wants an ice cream cone with a pickle on top. And Phoney Bone wants to build a giant statue... of himself! Whose idea will win...
Series
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
The ostrich, the emu, and the rhea, together with the kiwi and the cassowary, are the court jesters of the avian world, because they can't do the one thing that birds are famous for doing. They can't fly. But exactly how and why did these birds abandon flight? It's been one of the natural world's great mysteries. And now DNA is promising to give us the answer.
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
State-of-the-art technology and innovative techniques are used in this film that features some of the best footage from the BBCs acclaimed Earthflight series. Viewers can fly along with snow geese dashing through Monument Valley, Macaws racing through the rainforest, vultures soaring miles above the earth, and more.
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Pub. Date
©1998
Description
In 1861, just a few years after the publication of Charles Darwin's The Origin of Species, a scientist named Hermann von Meyer made an amazing discovery. Hidden in the Bavarian region of Germany was a fossil skeleton so exquisitely preserved that its wings and feathers were as obvious as its reptilian jaws and tail. This transitional creature offered tangible proof of Darwin's theory of evolution. Hailed as First Bird by its champions and dismissed...