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"In the past two decades, our understanding of the navigational and physiological feats that enable birds to cross immense oceans, fly above the highest mountains, or remain in unbroken flight for months at a stretch has exploded. What we've learned of these key migrations--how billions of birds circumnavigate the globe, flying tens of thousands of miles between hemispheres on an annual basis--is nothing short of extraordinary. Bird migration entails...

"A lazy alligator comes up with a plan to lure his prey by opening up a restaurant for birds--until he realizes that birds are even better as friends"-- Provided by publisher.

"A new edition of the best-selling field guide with 25 all-new plates covering the birds of Hawaii"-- Provided by publisher.

On an island populated entirely--or almost entirely--by happy, flightless birds, Red, a bird with a temper problem, speedy Chuck, and the volatile Bomb have always been outsiders. But when the island is visited by mysterious green piggies, it's up to these unlikely outcasts to figure out what the pigs are up to.

"Can birds smell?" "Is this the same cardinal that was at my feeder last year?" "Do robins 'hear' worms?" In "What It's Like to Be a Bird," David Sibley answers the most frequently asked questions about the birds we see most often. This special, large-format volume is geared as much to nonbirders as it is to the out-and-out obsessed, covering more than two hundred species and including more than 330 new illustrations by the author. While its focus...

"Follow Peter Rabbit to learn about the wild birds living in the North America and observe them through beautiful COLOR illustrations drawn by Louis Agassiz Fuertes. Readers will find out the characteristics, the habits, the living environment, and the seasonal migration of various birds including the Wrens, the Sparrows, the Flycatchers, the Woodpeckers, the Warblers, the Cardinals, the Shrikes, the Eagles, the Kingfishers, etc....; and they will...

First published in installments between 1827 and 1838, John James Audubon's collection of life-sized watercolors of North American birds is the standard against which all wildlife illustration is measured. Fewer than 120 copies survive today, locked away in museums and private collections around the world. For this volume, the Natural History Museum in London disbound one of the two original editions it owns, and each of the 435 exquisite hand-colored...

An escaped housecat encounters twelve birds in the back yard but fails to catch any of them and has to eat feathers for lunch.