Books in Backyard Bird Watchers series

If you hear a mourning doves gentle cooing, dont look uplook down. These graceful creatures like to forage for seeds on the ground. Theyve been known to gobble up as many as 17,000 seeds in a sitting! Young bird watchers will be fascinated by the hidden life of these birds including migration habits, habitats, mating rituals, and some awesome adaptations for survival. Their guide to all-things-birds is a young bird watcher, encouraging readers to get outside and try this hobby themselves.

Orioles are beloved backyard birds; theyre always looking for something sweet to eat. In this attractive volume, future birders will learn about the many kinds of orioles and even take a trip to a Baltimore Orioles baseball game. Like bird-watching itself, this book mixes funan entertaining story-like narrativewith essential science concepts, such as habitats and life cycles. Sidebars include funny comments, interesting statistics, and amazing facts about these feathered creatures. Readers will be inspired to keep their own bird-watching journal.

The fat bundle of feathers called the house wren is a cute bird. It often cheerfully trills its sweet songs. However, this little fowls mood can turn really foul when another bird has a nesting site it wants! It may peck at larger birds to get them to moveand even push eggs out of a nest. Readers of this absorbing book will find that, with all kinds of wrens, looks can be deceiving. Theyll love the diverting narrative and fun fact boxes and especially the up-close look at wrens in their native habitats.

If theres one bird that might win the best actor award in the feathered world, its the mockingbird. This winged wonder can learn more than 180 songs in just a few months, imitating the calls of other birds but also dog-barking and even car alarms! This is truly one bird to watch and one that readers will love learning about in the pages of this fascinating volume. The journal-like format unites a cheerful narrative about the bird-watching hobby with life-science facts about the mockingbird.

Birds can be beautiful creatureswith some pretty quirky habits. Blue jays, for example, rub ants on themselves when they molt to soothe their skin. They can also mimic other animals voices, such as a hawks cry. This volume, presented in journal format, offers a wealth of information about the backyard life of a blue jay. Science curriculum topics such as habitats, adaptations, predators, and more are included in this engaging account. Readers will want to begin bird-watching themselves after finding out more about this brightly colored bird.

Winter-weary people everywhere rejoice when they finally spy robins, an early sign of spring. These cheery birds can be seen hopping on lawns, tugging worms out of the ground. This delightful account of a young bird watchers discoveries about robins will both entertain and educate future ornithologists about the robins habitat, nest-making behaviors, migratory habits, and other adaptations. Beautifully designed, this volume enthusiastically promotes the hobby of bird-watching.

There are many kinds of songbirds that are called sparrows across North America. The song sparrow in particular is a melodious, yet secretive creature. Young bird watchers will love learning how to lure these sparrows to feeders, so they can observe them more closely. Theyll also learn fascinating information about this birds life cycle, habitats, behaviors, adaptations, and more. This volume, designed in journal format, is full of fun facts, gorgeous photographs, attention-grabbing graphics, and more that will inspire readers to appreciate the natural world around them.

American goldfinches are much beloved across North America, as evidenced by their status as state bird of Iowa, New Jersey, and Washington. These acrobatic little creatures seem to bounce through the air, making them a popular subject for backyard bird watchers. The narrator of this fun journal-styled volume offers a wealth of information about these little yellow-feathered birds as well as how readers can observe their behaviors for themselves. Cool facts, diagrams, and photographs show how interesting the hobby of bird-watching can be.

Woodpeckers are usually easier to hear than they are to spot. Their pointed beak hammers into tree bark at a speed of 25 miles (40 km) per hour! Theyre looking for some tasty bugs to eat in the inner layers of a tree. Theres so much more to a woodpeckers interesting life, and readers will find all they need to know in this instructive and entertaining book, a bird-watchers journal of woodpecker info. Cool facts and amazing photographs are the stars of this must-read.