When birds change their feathers

by Roma Gans, Felicia Bond (Illustrator)

Describes how and why animals shed their feathers, hair, shells, horns etc., with emphasis on the molting of birds.

40 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1980

Reviews

[Michael Fitzgerald · Rating 3 out of 5]

Useful information on a focused topic.

Illustrations make very ineffective use of color, adding virtually nothing to black-and-white drawings (a large single shade of green for grass). A number of the figures (both human and animal) have those damn cartoon dot eyes. A qualified nature illustrator should have been hired.

[Michele · Rating 3 out of 5]

Fantastic detail about birds and their feathers -- kinds of, when they get them, how used, how lost. Some introductory material on other animals who shed hair, skin or shells.

[Shelley · Rating 4 out of 5]

Black and white, but great introduction to birds feathers and the differences about them.