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Title details for A Kid's Guide to Backyard Birds by Eliza Berkowitz - Available

A Kid's Guide to Backyard Birds

by Eliza Berkowitz
Nicole LaRue
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Packed with essential facts on the United States' most easy-to-spot birds, this brightly illustrated guide is perfect for burgeoning birdwatchers ages 6 to 8.

A Kid's Guide to Backyard Birds is filled with fascinating facts about the most common birds, including where they live, what they eat, and how they sound when they sing. How did the Brown-Headed Cowbird get its name? Which bird can fly up to 40 miles per hour? Packed with over 80 full-color, gorgeous illustrations, this portable field guide will have burgeoning bird lovers excited about exploring the amazing world just outside their door.

The frontmatter contains a hands-on DIY project, info on how to identify birds, and what are absolute essentials to take in your bag as a beginner birdwatcher. The backmatter contains a bird log to keep track of all the birds spotted, information on how we can protect our birds, and a glossary of important terms found bolded throughout the book.

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  • Release date

    March 7, 2023

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    • Kindle Book

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      • ISBN: 9781423662648
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  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Kirkus

      December 1, 2022
      A gallery of 40 common U.S. birds, with painted portraits and brief nature notes. Stretching the confines of a "backyard" to include great blue herons and turkey vultures, Berkowitz selects birds that beginners should find relatively easy to identify, and LaRue helps out by emphasizing distinctive markings and colors in her simplified renderings. For true tyros, the author opens with instructions for making an all-edible feeder out of an apple, seeds, peanut butter, and twine but then goes on to assemble a tool kit (binoculars, camera, bug spray, proper footwear, a pen and notebook) for more ambitious bird-watchers and slips in a blank page to serve as a sighting log. Attempts to reproduce each bird's call run along the lines of the Carolina wren's "Teakettle!" and like fancies (or, in the cases of both the European starling and the mockingbird, a side-stepping "I imitate!"), but each entry does include, along with an image of a male individual, usually perched on a twig, a range map and pictures of an egg and of seeds, bugs, garbage, or other typical foods. "Birds are everywhere," the author encouragingly promises and, except perhaps for the turkey vulture (which "swoop[s] in when an animal has died to eat the remains"), fun to seek out and study. Hits the sweet spot between primary introductions and full-length field guides. (conservation suggestions, glossary) (Nonfiction. 6-10)

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