tailieunhanh - Beginning Birdwatcher's Book: With 48 Stickers

Easy-to-read fact-filled book helps young birdwatchers record sightings of 48 common North American birds, among them the blue jay, American crow, ruby-throated hummingbird, mourning dove, barn owl, and red-headed woodpecker. Each page includes space for a sticker image of a bird, plus information on size, habitat, nesting and eating habits, number and color of eggs, and range. | BEGINNING BIRDWATCHER BOOK WITH 48 STICKERS Belted Kingfisher Ceryle alcyon sv Bav oVựe Size 11 to 14 inches Nest A burrow excavated in bank of river lake stream or occasionally in cavity of tree. Eggs 5 to 8 pure white and very glossy. Food Chiefly small fishes captured by hovering over water or diving from waterside perch. Will also take mice frogs crayfish and water insects. Range Found throughout the United States at streams lakes and coasts. My Observations Date seen _ __ Time of day .101 KiS QJin Locality Remarks fYULaA. Beginning Birdwatcher s Book With 48 Stickers Sy Barlowe DOVER PUBLICATIONS INC. Mineola New York INTRODUCTION 1. .121 J T íbzmbỉg Birdwafcher s Book is an ideal introduction to a fascinating I X-J hobby enjoyed by millions of people the world over. 11 provides infer-I mation on and illustrations of 48 common birds and enables you to record when and where you first saw them. Whether acting as scavengers or controlling insect populations birds are one of nature s most wonderful creations. No one can deny their useful place in the ecosystem and just look I at them From the nickering iridescent hummingbird to the soaring I majestic eagle birds are a marvel to behold I A flash of yellow and black and there perched on a branch is a live-inch I bird you haven t seen before. Examining the sheet of 4 8 colored stickers I you are able to identify it as an American goldfinch. By pasting the prop-I er sticker of your newly discovered bird in hs numbered space on each I page and adding the appropriate information you ll make this book a per-I manent record of your sightings combining the properties of a personal I LIFE LIST With a BIRD GUIDE. I Each bird lias a scientific name that distinguishes it from every other ibird. This classification system consists of two Latin words that indicate genus and species. The first word which is capitalized IS the generic name shared by a group of birds that have .