Birds: A Fully Illustrated, Authoritative and Easy-to-Use Guide (A Golden Guide from St. Martin's Press) - Softcover

Zim, Herbert S.; Gabrielson, Ira N.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1582381283 ISBN 13: 9781582381282

Publisher: Golden Guides from St. Martin's Press, 2001

Synopsis

This guide will help you identify-quickly and easily-the birds you are most likely to see. It tells you:

What to look for
Where and when to look
How to attract birds

Range maps show where each bird is found, and handy tables at the back of the book contain a wealth of additional information about migration, eggs, nests, and food. This is the perfect bird book for beginners at any age.

About this title

Book Description:

Combining 50 individually die-cut cards with full-color illustrations, plus hundreds of intriguing facts, stories, statistics, and trivia, Fandex is the newest breakthrough in information-packed, family publishing.

With its large images, bright colors, and die-cut profiles unmistakable the bird and the bird card could almost be one and the same. Birds: Wild Birds of North America is the ideal way to learn about North America's songbirds, backyard birds, shore birds, and birds of prey. From the diminutive Indigo Bunting, which navigates by starlight during its long migrations, to the fearsome Red-Tailed Hawk, Birds introduces 47 species and covers their habitat, range, diet, nests, eggs, and up-to-date conservation status.

From the Back Cover:

BIRDS

Bringing the world of Birds to your fingertips, Fandex presents the ideal field guide.

The images are large, the details sharp, the colors bright. Each die-cut profile is unmistakable - it's like having the real bird in your own hand.

There are instantly accessible details about each bird's habitat, range, diet, nest, eggs and conservation status, as well as appearance, habitats and even song pattern, Plus "pigeon milk" and the Indigo Bunting's ability to navigate by starlight, how the Killdeer fakes injury to distract predators, and Benjamin Franklin's surprising nominee for America's national bird.

- 50 individually die-cut cards

- Full color throughout

- Knowledge at your fingertips

- For the whole family

About this edition

• Publisher: Golden Guides from St. Martin's Press
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 1582381283
• ISBN 13: 9781582381282
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 160
• Illustrator: Irving James Gordon