Presents information about the physical characteristics, behavior, and basic care of birds, a timeline about their origins, and facts about some unusual specimens of this class of animals.
Presents every taxon accepted as species by any of the four major world lists: 11,524 species in total.
About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work.
The Rarest Bird in the World is a celebration of a certain way of seeing the world, and will bring out the explorer in in everyone who reads it.
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations.
When “bird” is not the word, this book tells you what is.
Told against the backdrop of scientists' efforts to understand the raptors' decline in the wild, this illustrated non-fiction book tells the story of several generations of falcons as they're taken to a sanctuary, reintegrated into the wild ...
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This volume is a synopsis of the diversity of all birds. It distills the voluminous detail of the 17-volume Handbook of Birds of the World into a single book.
About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work.
Some , however , such as many African starlings , are stunning , clad in iridescent blue greens and orange , or violet . Several mynas are quite striking in black and yellow . Oxpeckers are gray brown , with sharp , curved claws to help ...