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5) Birds
Publication Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"An introduction to birds and their physical characteristics, life cycle, behaviors, and adaptations to various habitats. Features include maps, diagrams, fun facts, glossary, resource list, and index"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publication Date
2021
Language
English
Description
"An exhilarating exploration of the science and wonder of global bird migration. In the past two decades, our understanding of bird migration-the navigational and physiological feats that enable birds to cross immense oceans or fly above the highest mountains, to go weeks without sleep, or remain in unbroken flight for months at a stretch-has exploded. Scientists have made astounding discoveries: certain species, such as thrushes, can avoid dehydration...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Publication Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
When a new threat emerges that puts both Bird and Pig Island in danger, Red, Chuck, Bomb, and Mighty Eagle recruit Chuck's sister Silver and team up with pigs Leonard, his assistant Courtney, and techpig Garry to forge an unsteady truce and form an unlikely super-team to save their homes.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Publication Date
2024.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 0.5
Language
English
Description
With illustrations drenched in tropical color, this lyrical love song to the Kaua'i 'o'o bird shows how this species evolved over thousands of years, declined and became extinct, empowering young naturalists to protect and defend our planet's biodiversity.
Author
Publication Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"Flight Paths is the never-before-told story of how a group of migration-obsessed scientists in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries engaged nearly every branch of science to understand bird migration--from where and when they take off to their flightpaths and behaviors, their destinations and the challenges they encounter getting there."-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Timber Press
Publication Date
[2025]
Language
English
Description
The Illuminated Book of Birds is a celebration of the birds of the world by award-winning painter Robin Crofut-Brittingham. It includes large-scale fine art paintings of the birds in Latin America, Africa, Asia, Oceania, North America, and Europe, along with flightless birds, unusual birds, and extinct birds. It looks at birds together, grouping them by geography and families, and delights in uncovering their habits and cultural and mythological significance....
15) Birds
Author
Publication Date
2022
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 0.5
Language
English
Description
"Continuation of the Wild World series comparing big and small animals sizes"-- Provided by publisher.
"Did you ever wonder which animals are the biggest... and the smallest? Birds can be found in all shapes and sizes! Did you know a bee hummingbird weighs less than a penny? Or, that an ostrich can weigh as much as a refrigerator? What do these animals look like and where do they live? Look inside to discover which of the ten birds in this book are...
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Publication Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Adapted from the edition written and published for adults by Knopf in 2020, this edition adapted for young readers covers more than two hundred species and includes more than 300 illustrations throughout. Author/illustrator David Sibley's exacting artwork and wide-ranging expertise brings observed behaviors vividly to life"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Publication Date
2012
Language
English
Description
What is it like to be a swift, flying at over one hundred kilometres an hour? Or a kiwi, plodding flightlessly among the humid undergrowth in the pitch dark of a New Zealand night? And what is going on inside the head of a nightingale as it sings, and how does its brain improvise?
Bird Sense addresses questions like these and many more, by describing the senses of birds that enable them to interpret their environment and to interact with...
Bird Sense addresses questions like these and many more, by describing the senses of birds that enable them to interpret their environment and to interact with...
19) About birds
Author
Publisher
Peachtree Publishers
Publication Date
c1991
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.2 - AR Pts: 0.5
Language
English
Description
Text and illustrations introduce the world of birds from eggs to flight, from songs to nests.



