This guide has two parts. The Directory section gives the following information: over 1,500 colour paintings of birds of different ages, sexes and seasons maps of the distribution of the species that breed or are regularly seen in Europeextensive information on the appearance, status, voice, habitat, nest, eggs, broods, incubation, young, development and food for each of 429 species The Life of a Bird section tells what it is like to be a bird. It is an account of survival, of the advantages and disadvantages in the various methods of growing up, moulting, feeding, migrating, breeding--of adapting or succumbing to the multiplicity of threats to its existence. Whether it is read as a story, or dipped into, it explains what we see birds doing, and the often hidden reasons why they are doing it.
- ISBN10 0292755325
- ISBN13 9780292755321
- Publish Date 1 January 1987
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 7 August 2012
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University of Texas Press
- Edition Univ of Texas PR ed.
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 320
- Language English