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Article: The Little Guides: Birds.(Book Review)
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- Reviewer's Bookwatch
- Article date:
- April 1, 2005
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The Little Guides: Birds
Joseph Forshaw (Editor)
Fog City Press
814 Montgomery Street SF CA 94133
ISBN: 1875137734 $16.95
Informative Read........ Highly Recommended..... 5 stars
As with others in the Little Guide series The Little Guides: Birds is a 300+ -page work divided into sections. Part 1: THE WORLD OF BIRDS presents a three section overview for UNDERSTANDING BIRDS. In section one birds are introduced with pictures of tiny humming bird and much larger ostrich presented on the same page to indicate the wide diversity of the group. Origins of Birds, Naming of Birds, Bird Anatomy, Feathers and Plumage, Flight, ...