BIRDINATION
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Bird Basics |
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| Author | Scott Deschaine |
| Illustrator | Richard Draney |
| Library | self-owned, obtained from Bird Libray in Norfolk |
| Illustration Quality (1 low - 5 high) | 4 |
| Story Quality (1 low - 5 high) | 4 |
| Overall Quality (1 low - 5 high) | 4 |
| Summary | This is an educational comic booklet put out by the National Association of Conservation Districts. Birds are the primary focus of this booklet. Every page is filled with a variety of birds. This booklet describes "basics" such as types of birds, bird anatomy, how they live, eat, survive, variety of habitats they live in, migration, noises they make and the food they eat. Man's relationship with birds is also presented in a fashion of ways we harm bird habitat and also ways we can help in spite of it by providing food, water, shelter and general habitats as an alternative to their lost natural habitats. |
| Featured character: | Birds |
| Type of bird(s) in story | Cardinal, Owl, Red-Tailed Hawk, Heron, Seagull, Bluebird, Kingfisher, Roadrunner, Hummingbird, Black-Capped Chickadee, House Wren, White-breasted Nuthatch, Scarlet Tanager, American Goldfinch, Pileated Woodpecker, Great Horned Owl, Duck, Canadian Geese, American Robin, Purple Martins, Flicker, Mourning Doves, Baltimore Oriole, Barn Swallows, Arctic Tern, Wood Duck, Red-winged Blackbird, Woodpecker Finch, Nuthatches, Green Jays, Clark's Nutcracker, Crows, Ravens, Blue Jays, Starlings, House Sparrows, Mallard Duck, Bee Hummingbird, Peregrine Falcon, Poor-will and Downy Woodpecker |