Books

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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
How to know British birds	Norman H. Joy	"Among modern books about British birds How to Know British Birds, published by Witherby, stands supreme, being at once the most authoritative and the most detailed guide available. It makes availa…	OL10480235W
The magpie's nest	Joseph Jacobs	Because none of the birds stay to the end of the magpie's nest-building lesson, each leaves with a different idea of how to build a nest.	OL1117805W
Catalogue of the birds in the British Museum	British Museum (Natural History). Department of Zoology	This enormous undertaking, which, according to one of the prefaces, professes to be a complete list of every bird known at the time of publication, kept growing even as it was being written. The Muse…	OL11220905W
Ragtag	Karl Wolf-Morgenländer	A young swallow leads a band of birds against an empire of raptors that has invaded Boston.	OL12017300W
Bird, fly high	Petr Horáček	Bird goes out to find breakfast for her chicks	OL12081009W
Bird, butterfly, eel	James Prosek	Follows a bird, a monarch butterfly, and an eel from summer on a farm until they make their respective fall voyages south, and then later begin to return north again when the weather warms.	OL12284467W
Tudor wharf, Charlestown, ma, draft project impact report	Myerson/Allen and Company, Inc.	...the proposed Tudor Wharf complex is a mixed use retail, commercial, office space and water dependent use project located on Boston harbor in Charlestown (commonly known as the Rapids Furniture War…	OL13793159W
Birds at home	Marguerite Henry	Describes the habits and behavior and includes illustrations of twenty-one birds common to North America.	OL1480353W
The Amazing Life of Birds	Gary Paulsen	As twelve-year-old Duane endures the confusing and humiliating aspects of puberty, he watches a newborn bird in a nest on his windowsill begin to grow and become more independent, all of which he rec…	OL14850184W
The missing sunflowers	Maggie Stern	Simon gets three sunflower plants from his bird-loving neighbor Mrs. Potter, only to have them disappear one by one.	OL14850279W
Crinkleroot's 25 birds every child should know	Jim Arnosky	Presents labeled pictures of the author's choices for birds with which boys and girls under five should be familiar.	OL14922722W
Flyaway	Suzie Gilbert	In this captivating memoir, Suzie Gilbert tells the rollicking story of how she turned her family life upside down to pursue her unusual passion for rehabilitating wild birds. Through adolescence and…	OL14973856W
Richard Scarry's the early bird	Richard Scarry	After several cases of mistaken identity Early Bird finally finds a worm to play with.	OL15032241W
Become a bird and fly!	Michael Elsohn Ross	Using his imagination, Nicky changes into a bird and takes flight.	OL15041487W
Baby birds	Helen Frost	Describes the development of baby birds after they hatch, including their feeding, growth of feathers, and first flight.	OL15045413W
Honk! honk!	Mick Manning	A girl takes a journey with a wild goose and her flock as they migrate to their nesting grounds in the distant, snowy north.	OL30584W
The whooping crane	Dorothy Hinshaw Patent	Traces the forty-year-old and ongoing attempt to save the endangered whooping crane from extinction, focusing on efforts at wildlife refuges and the captive breeding program.	OL30661W
Watching our feathered friends	Dean T. Spaulding	Introduces the hobby of birdwatching, describing birding history, the use of a field guide, the best times and places for birding, and birding equipment. Includes step-by-step instructions for projec…	OL3279028W
Five nests	Caroline Arnold	Describes the ways robins, redwing blackbirds, rheas, Mexican jays, and cowbirds care for their newly-hatched young.	OL34545W
How birds migrate	Paul Kerlinger	Why do some birds migrate at night and others travel during the day? How do birds that have never migrated before know when to leave and where to go? How does a tiny warbler cross 2,000 miles of ocea…	OL3747814W