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"How many feathers does a bird have? Do birds sleep while in flight? Why do Blue-Footed Boobies have blue feet? How do migrating birds know where to go and how to get there? For these and hundreds of other questions, The Bird Watching Answer Book has expert answers. Written by Laura Erickson, science editor at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, this book is the authoritative source for information on birds of all kinds."--
2) Snapper
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English
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Working as a birdwatching guide to scrape together enough money to survive, Nathan Lochmueller performs nature research in backwater Indiana, where he falls in love with a heartbreaking free spirit named Lola and confronts the accidental turns of his life.
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Backyard witch volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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When her two best friends take a vacation without her, nine-year-old Sadie meets a witch who takes her on a bird-watching adventure. Includes birding tips.
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Mouse and Mole (Wong Herbert Yee) volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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When spring arrives, Mole and Mouse find a unique way to bird watch.
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English
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A classic in the making — an account of the biggest year in birdwatching history.
In the USA, some 50 million people lay claim to being bird-watchers or “birders,” spending billions of dollars on birding-related travel and membership fees every year. A select, and utterly obsessed, few compete in one of the world’s quirkiest contests — the race to spot the most species in North America in a single year. And 1998 wasn’t...
In the USA, some 50 million people lay claim to being bird-watchers or “birders,” spending billions of dollars on birding-related travel and membership fees every year. A select, and utterly obsessed, few compete in one of the world’s quirkiest contests — the race to spot the most species in North America in a single year. And 1998 wasn’t...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
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"The Blotter family are famous bird spotters, who stay in their hideout all day. All except for Otto-he'd rather go out and have big adventures. When he follows the BIGGEST footprints he's ever seen, he finds an extraordinary baby bird all on its own. Otto's new friend soon reveals a very special ability: camouflage! But the bird keeps growing and growing, and Otto begins to suspect it may have a family after all . . . perhaps the time has come to...
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Identify Birds with California's Best-Selling Bird Guide!
Make bird-watching in California even more enjoyable. With Stan Tekiela's famous bird guide, field identification is simple and informative. There's no need to look through dozens of photos of birds that don't live in your area. This handy book features 176 species of California birds organized by color for ease of use. Full-page photographs present the species as you'll see them in nature,...
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"Get ready to dive into the hidden world of birds! My awesome field guide to North American birds is a complete handbook for young birders. You'll learn all about the birds that live around you - from chimley swifts to horned larks - and find step-by-step guidance on how to identify them. With clever bird-watching tips and tons of beautiful photos, planning your own birding adventures will be fun and easy." --
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Become a better birder with brief portraits of 200 top North American birds. This friendly, relatable book is a celebration of the art, science, and delights of bird-watching.
How to Know the Birds introduces a new, holistic approach to bird-watching, by noting how behaviors, settings, and seasonal cycles connect with shape, song, color, gender, age distinctions, and other features traditionally used to identify species. With short essays on 200...
12) The birdwatchers
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Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : chiefly col. ill. ; 31 cm.
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English
Description
Intrigued by her granddad's stories of what happens when he goes birdwatching, Jess decides to accompany him one day.
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2017.
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English
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A methodical, diligent, and exceptionally bright detective, South is an avid birdwatcher and trusted figure in his small town on the rugged Kentish coast. He also lives with the deeply buried secret that, as a child in Northern Ireland, he may have killed a man. When a fellow birdwatcher is found murdered in his remote home, South's world flips. The culprit seems to be a drifter from South's childhood; the victim was the only person connecting South...
15) Riki's birdhouse
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Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 22 x 25 cm.
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English
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Riki, who loves to watch, feed, and listen to the birds that come to his garden, decides to build a birdhouse.
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Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
c2013
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
51 p. : col. ill., col. maps ; 20 x 24 cm.
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English
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A conversational, humorous introduction to bird-watching featuring quirky full-color illustrations portray dozens of birds chatting about their distinctive characteristics, including color, shape, plumage, and beak and foot types.
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California natural history guides volume 84
Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
xiii, 316 p. : col. ill., col. maps ; 19 cm.
Language
English
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Publisher
Riverhead Books, a member of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
c2014
Physical Desc
xiv, 288 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
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"The Thing with Feathers by Noah Strycker is a fun and profound look at the lives of birds, illuminating their surprising world--and deep connection with humanity"--
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