Backyard bird watchers
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A bird watcher's guide to chickadees
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A bird watcher's guide to goldfinches
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A bird watcher's guide to sparrows
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Hummingbirds may be the most jaw-dropping birds. Their wings flap 80 times per second 80 times! and they can also hover! Astonishing facts like these abound in this guide to the diminutive bird, in the appealing guise of a young bird watcher s journal. The narrator takes readers under his wing, showing them how they, too, can be bird watchers while addressing important science concepts accompanied by beautiful photographs of hummingbirds in flight....
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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If there's one bird that might win the "best actor" award in the feathered world, it's 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...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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If you hear a mourning dove's gentle cooing, don't look up-look down. These graceful creatures like to forage for seeds on the ground. They've 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...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Orioles are beloved backyard birds; they're 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 fun-an entertaining story-like narrative-with essential science concepts, such as habitats and life cycles. Sidebars include funny comments, interesting statistics, and amazing...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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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! They re looking for some tasty bugs to eat in the inner layers of a tree. There s so much more to a woodpecker s interesting life, and readers will find all they need to know in this instructive and entertaining book, a bird-watcher s journal of woodpecker info. Cool facts and amazing photographs are the...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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The fat bundle of feathers called the house wren is a cute bird. It often cheerfully trills its sweet songs. However, this little fowl's mood can turn really foul when another bird has a nesting site it wants! It may peck at larger birds to get them to move-and even push eggs out of a nest. Readers of this absorbing book will find that, with all kinds of wrens, looks can be deceiving. They'll love the diverting narrative and fun fact boxes and especially...