Elizabeth S. Austin
Birds That Stopped Flying
Hardcover
(Random House c1969 March 15, 1969)
, First Edition edition
Wonderfully illustrated and clearly written, this book is a valuable addition to any young person's nature library. Today 49 kinds of birds can't fly. Penguins have flippers instead of wings and "fly" through the water. Ostriches have huge legs and feet. Other birds have different unbirdly ways. This book talks about ideas on why some birds cannot fly.