By David Burnie
New glance! Relaunched with new jackets and eight pages of latest textual content! here's an exhilarating and informative consultant to the interesting global of chook existence. significant colour images of feathers, wings, skeletons, eggs, nests and newly hatched chicks merely days outdated supply a special "eyewitness" view of the common historical past, habit and existence cycle of birds. See how baby chicks hatch from eggs, how nestings develop of their first few days, how birds camouflage themselves opposed to predators what birds devour and the way they capture their prey. learn the way birds' our bodies are designed for flight, why wings are assorted styles and sizes, how birds developed from their prehistoric ancestors and that are the world's largest, smallest, slowest and quickest birds. detect how and the place birds make their nests, why eggs are assorted colours, what percentage feathers birds have and what every one is for and the way to monitor birds and allure them on your backyard, and lots more and plenty, even more!
Read Online or Download Bird (DK Eyewitness Books) PDF
Similar animals books
A Communion of Subjects: Animals in Religion, Science, and Ethics
A Communion of matters is the 1st comparative and interdisciplinary research of the conceptualization of animals in international religions. students from quite a lot of disciplines, together with Thomas Berry (cultural history), Wendy Doniger (study of myth), Elizabeth Lawrence (veterinary medication, ritual studies), Marc Bekoff (cognitive ethology), Marc Hauser (behavioral science), Steven clever (animals and law), Peter Singer (animals and ethics), and Jane Goodall (primatology) think about how significant non secular traditions have integrated animals into their trust structures, myths, rituals, and paintings. Their findings provide profound insights into humans' relationships with animals and a deeper figuring out of the social and ecological internet within which all of us live.
Contributors research Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Daoism, Confucianism, African religions, traditions from old Egypt and early China, and local American, indigenous Tibetan, and Australian Aboriginal traditions, between others. They discover concerns equivalent to animal cognizance, agony, sacrifice, and stewardship in leading edge methodological methods. in addition they deal with modern demanding situations with regards to legislation, biotechnology, social justice, and the surroundings. by way of grappling with the character and ideological beneficial properties of assorted non secular perspectives, the members forged spiritual teachings and practices in a brand new mild. They show how we both deliberately or inadvertently marginalize "others," whether or not they are human or differently, reflecting at the ways that we assign worth to dwelling beings.
Though it truly is an historical predicament, the subject of "Religion and Animals" has but to be systematically studied through sleek students. This groundbreaking assortment takes the 1st steps towards a significant analysis.
Foundations of Wildlife Diseases
Foundations of natural world ailments is a accomplished evaluate of the fundamental rules that govern the examine of natural world illnesses. The authors combine theoretical foundations with an intensive exam of the standards that may have an effect on the well-being and health of animals. They comprise particular details on a wide range of infectious brokers similar to micro organism, viruses, arthropods, fungi, protista, and helminths, in addition to immunity to those brokers.
As 5 crippled young ones play video games of imagining themselves in one other attractive global, one of many boys unearths he may also help the remainder of them break out to a wierd new position.
Handbook of Psychopharmacology: Volume 14 Affective Disorders: Drug Actions in Animals and Man
Underlying the layout of the guide of Psychopharmacology is a prejudice that the research of drug impacts at the brain has complex to a level the place uncomplicated study and medical software really mesh. those later volumes of the instruction manual are established based on this perception. In yes volumes, teams of substances are handled as periods with chapters starting from easy chemistry to medical software.
- The Cat Who Went Bananas (Cat Who...)
- Remarkable Birds
- Stone World February 2012
- The Squirrel Monkey
- Until the Cows Come Home: And Other Expressions About Animals (It's Just An Expression)
- Animal Friendships
Additional resources for Bird (DK Eyewitness Books)
Example text
By pulling apart a pellet, it is possible to find out something about an owl’s diet. Here two tawny owl pellets have been carefully taken apart. The first pellet shows that the owl that produced it had dined entirely on voles - three of these small mammals made up the bird’s nightly catch. The second pellet tells a rather different and more surprising story. Rodents can be identified by the shape of their cheek teeth; these are from a vole Ball joint on leg bone fits into this socket Three vole skulls, two still intact Hip bones with sockets for the back leg joint Fur, mixed with mucus, forms the “glue” that binds the pellet together Bones from front limbs Shoulder blades, which attach to the front legs Cheek teeth Leg bones, some still paired as they would have been in life Complete jaw Incisors The two sides of the jaw often break apart in the owl’s stomach and they usually become separated from the skull Curved ribs with flattened sides Vertebrae - the distinctive bones that make up the backbone Starling skull FEEDING ON OTHER BIRDS Although owls are often thought of as living on rodents and nothing else, these starling bones show that birds are very much a feature of the tawny owl’s diet.
Its brown eggs are well hidden in the shadows cast by leaves and branches. Tits, including the coal tit, blue tit, and American chickadee, lay up to 15 eggs, each clutch weighing up to a third more than the bird. Wood warbler Marsh warbler egg egg SUMMER VISITORS Most of the world’s 400 species of warbler migrate to breed. They arrive at the same time as the annual insect population explosion, which provides food for the average family of six nestlings. Little owl egg HIGHLY VISIBLE EGGS Surface colors like the brown and gray streaks on this Baltimore oriole’s egg are formed just a few hours before the egg is laid.
However, winter takes its toll on many of the offspring, and few survive into the following year. Cuckoo DAYTIME DISGUISE HOLE NESTER The nocturnal nightjar does not make a nest. Instead, it lays its pair of eggs on rough ground. The eggs’ camouflage is almost as good as the parent bird’s (p. 30). Many woodpeckers chisel out nest holes in trees. Their eggs are very similar to those of hole-nesting owls white and glossy. RAISED AMONG THE ROOFTOPS The kestrel lays a clutch of four to six eggs. It occasionally nests on city buildings, where its eggs perch at great risk on gutters and window ledges.