Each volume in this series of Key Stage Two books examines the lifecycle and life processes of a particular animal or insect. The book includes illustrations and photographs. This volume focuses on birds.
The book focuses on the various stages and explains: differences in the length of time birds incubate their eggs and care for their young; the development of a chicken embryo and how a chick hatches; dangers to nesting habitats, the effects ...
In the present volume, birds are not treated as mere museum specimens or subjects, simply to be identified and categorized, but they have been portrayed and presented as living creatures.
This series introduces the life cycle of a wide range of animals from around the world.
A child watches a female cardinal building a nest in his backyard and decides to record what happens to the cardinal family in her diary.
Written specifically for students in need of review or extra help, this book gives a concise overview of a topic commonly included in science curricula.
A first introduction to the life cycles of birds, and a fantastic in-depth look at the lives of: hornbills, killdeers, emperor penguins, Arctic terns, bower birds, tailor birds and puffins.
What is a bird? Parrots, bluebirds, ostriches, and many other creatures are all birds!
This first look at robins follows a full year of growth and change: how the birds develop inside their egg during the spring, how they mature from chicks into fledglings in the summer, how they learn to fly in the fall, and how they leave ...
"; "Do robins 'hear' worms?" "The book's beauty mirrors the beauty of birds it describes so marvelously." —NPR In What It's Like to Be a Bird, David Sibley answers the most frequently asked questions about the birds we see most often.
Documents the work of a young girl, Maria Merian, who lived during the Middle Ages and disproved the theory of spontaneous generation by observing caterpillars as they spun cocoons and emerged as butterflies and moths in the spring.