Description

The Chook e book for birders and nonbirders alike so that you can excite and encourage through offering a brand new and deeper figuring out of what not unusual, most commonly outside, birds are doing–and why

“Can birds scent?” “Is that this the similar cardinal that used to be at my feeder final 12 months?” “Do robins ‘listen’ worms?” In What It is Love to Be a Chook, David Sibley solutions probably the most regularly requested questions concerning the birds we see such a lot incessantly. This unique, huge-structure quantity is geared as so much to nonbirders as it’s to the out-and-out obsessed, masking greater than 2 hundred species and together with greater than 330 new illustrations through the writer. At the same time as its center of attention is on acquainted outside birds–blue jays, nuthatches, chickadees–it additionally examines positive species that may be moderately simply noticed, such because the beach-living Atlantic puffin. David Sibley’s exacting paintings and huge-ranging experience convey noticed behaviors vividly to lifestyles. (For such a lot species, the main representation is reproduced lifestyles-sized.) And At the same time as the textual content is geared toward adults–together with interesting new medical analysis at the myriad techniques birds have tailored to environmental adjustments–it’s nontechnical, making it the easiest instance for fogeys and grandparents to proportion their love of birds with babies, who will satisfaction within the large, complete-colour illustrations of birds in motion. Not like every other e book he has written, What It is Love to Be a Bird is poised to convey an entire new target market to David Sibley’s global of birds.