Bird

DK Eyewitness Books

by David Burnie

A photo essay on the world of birds examining such topics as body construction, feathers and flight, the adaptation of beaks and feet, feeding habits, courtship, nests and eggs, and bird watching.

Genres: Birds, Science, Nonfiction, Animals, Reference, Picture Books, Childrens

64 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1988

About the author

David Andrew Burnie is an accomplished zoologist who was a nature reserve ranger before becoming a natural history author and editor. A prolific writer of many books, including several on dinosaurs, he has seen many of his titles win educational awards and science prizes. His titles for Kingfisher include Kingfisher Knowledge: Endangered Planet and The Kingfisher Illustrated Dinosaur Encyclopedia, which was nominated for the Aventis Prize for Science Books in 2002.

Reviews

[Sophie Crane · Rating 5 out of 5]

A Beautiful picture book with lots of information about birds from all over the world. I would have liked to have seen more images and less info, as I bought it primarily for inspiration for drawing.

[Little Timmy · Rating 5 out of 5]

OK I know these are supposed to be kid books but they are awesome! Great pictures and just enough text to make you want to learn more. Great choices for a beginning history reader or to start an older reader out in a new area. Every time I pick one of these up and read it I learn new things. Highly Recommended

[Connie D · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a great introduction to all aspects of birds for the beginner interested in birds. Although it's created for juveniles, the information is detailed and was mostly new to me.

I read all of it, but it is more set up for browsing for whatever is most fascinating to you.

[Haley · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book was pretty good for a bird book. I don't normally read books about them, but I liked how this one showed how birds hatch and their nests, etc.

[Jenn · Rating 4 out of 5]

Found this back in my storage, so re-read every piece of this book. Amazing information, and lots of great (and helpful) photographs. I feel as if I'm going to forget at least half of what I just learned, but that's just me, haha.

[Heather · Rating 3 out of 5]

The cover of my book doesn't look like this. And it has a CD-Rom with clip art.

I have a love/hate relationship with the Eyewitness books. I love all the interesting and informative pictures. I hate the busyness of it all. I also don't appreciate how they try to throw evolution into everything.

We checked this out just to look through. I put it in the book basket and they browsed through it several times. I didn't want to read the various 9 million snippets of information together, but I did answer any questions they had.

The pictures are all photographs and are very well done. You can learn a lot just by looking at them.

I never use these books as our main source of information because you only get a small blurb about each thing and I don't feel it's enough. But for pictures and/or browsing they work well.

[Koqua]

it is informational. i am learning about birds.

[Laura · Rating 1 out of 5]

I had a different cover to this one. I learnt a couple of things in this book and it was iteresting.

[Mark Luongo · Rating 3 out of 5]

Helpful.

[Ami · Rating 3 out of 5]

Birds besides owls make pellets! I had no idea. Also, baby birds can be really, really ugly. I knew that, but these pictures make it crystal clear.

[Laura · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love it!

[Kiki]

This book talk about how birds live, how can they build houses …I learned many things about birds in this book