Each Falcon Field Guide to birds introduces the 180 most common and sought-after species in a state. Conveniently sized to fit in your pocket and featuring full-color, detailed illustrations, these informative guides make it easy to identify birds in a backyard, favorite parks, and wildlife areas. Each bird is accompanied by a detailed listing of its prominent attributes and a color illustration showing its important features. Birds are organized...

John Muir Laws's guide to drawing birds is itself winged, soaring between a devotion not only to art but also to the lives, forms, and postures of the birds themselves. Here, artistic technique and the exquisite details of natural history intertwine, and drawing becomes the vehicle for seeing. As Laws writes, "To draw feathers, you must understand how feathers grow, overlap, and insert into the body. To create the body, you must have an understanding...

"Become an eyewitness to the 9,500 species of birds that live in a huge range of habitats, from deserts and rainforests to the polar ice caps. This picture-led guide will take you on a visual tour of the fascinating world of birds. Readers can learn all about different orders of birds, take a detailed look at individual feathers and beak shapes, and explore behavior, from fish- and meat-eaters to seed- and plant-eaters"--

"Dino" Don Lessem brings readers face-to-face with various dinosaur species, detailing their habitats, way of life and how they became extinct. An acclaimed dinosaur expert, Don Lessem has written more than 30 children's books, writes a popular dinosaur column in Highlights magazine, and was an adviser for Jurassic Park. Take a trip through dinosaur time to meet these feathered dinosaurs face to face: The Caudipteryx had feathered arms and a tail...

"Simple text and colorful images illustrate types of birds, including common characteristics, diet, and life cycle"--

Text and illustrations introduce the world of birds from eggs to flight, from songs to nests.

Little learners will love to explore new worlds and ideas with Bendon's Reading Discovery Level Readers. Build a library that covers a range of topics from bugs and butterflies to and porpoises to Presidents. With sharp eyes and sharper talons, raptors rule the sky! Explore the world of eagles, hawks, falcons, and owls - the awesome birds of prey.

"Describes the characteristics, habitat, behavior, life cycle, and threats to peregrine falcons"--

"Gedney shares his devotion to everyday Western birds in fifteen essays. Each essay illuminates the life of a single species and its relationship to humans, and how these species can help us understand birds in general"--

As a cat patiently waits, birds from one to twenty land at a feeder. Includes information about the various species and the seeds they eat.