Description
This online book combines storytelling, a bird ID app, video streaming, animations, hands-on activities, interactive explorations and inquiry to explore the living dinosaurs we call birds. This is not just a book, it is an enthralling experience, appropriate for naturalists of all ages.
- Discover what makes a bird a dinosaur.
- Decode the language of birds.
- Watch magnificent birds LIVE — feeding, nesting and raising their young all over the world.
- Ponder what makes a bird, a bird.
- Distinguish which feathers are from a bird’s wing and which are from its tail. Which are contour feathers and which are down feathers?
- Identify what a bird eats by just looking at its beak.
- Explore what a bird’s footprint can tell you about that bird.
- Find the camouflaged bird hidden in each picture.
- Learn about the different types of birds. Discover how some are the world’s toxic, clean-up crews. Learn how some birds can cruise for days and not seek dry land for years! Observe incredible feathered displays and dances. Know in an instant whether a bird is a crow or a raven.
- Make ever better paper airplanes to explore how birds fly.
- Explore the endearing courting, nesting and parenting behaviors of birds.
- Find out which birds can hover, fly backwards and even fly upside down! Which can dive at over 100 miles an hour?
- Learn about The Age of Terror Birds. These giant birds were once an apex predator.