Birds
– Includes 2 interactive e-books

$15.00

2 highly-interactive ebooks: The ultimate guide to birds plus a companion book for those of us who prefer learning about birds by first building and doing.

These ebooks run on all browsers, on desktops, laptops, tablets and cell phones. They do not require special software.

Online Discovery Birds combines storytelling with:

  • Making a simple bird feeder from everyday materials
  • Bird watching
  • Neighborhood nature walks
  • Observing the antics of exotic birds
    live on webcams around the world
  • Video streaming
  • Interactive online explorations
  • Soaring paper airplanes to explore how birds fly
  • Finding the camouflaged bird hidden in the image

With the Bird ID app: You can point your cell phone or tablet at a specific bird to identify it either with the camera or by sound. You can also use the app to identify birds streamed to your device from web-cameras positioned around the world. Learn to decode the language of birds. They may be warning you that a coyote or mountain lion is approaching!

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Birds includes 2 highly-interactive ebooks: The ultimate guide to birds plus a companion book for those of us who prefer learning about birds by building and doing. These books combine storytelling, a bird ID app, video streaming, animations, hands-on activities, interactive explorations and inquiry to explore the living dinosaurs we call birds. These are not just ebooks, they are an extraordinary new type of experience, appropriate for naturalists of all ages.

  • Ponder what makes a bird, a bird.
  • 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.
  • Distinguish which feathers are from a bird’s wing or its tail. Which are contour 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 birds are the world’s toxic, clean-up crews.
  • Learn how other birds can cruise for days and not seek dry land for years!
  • 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?
  • Make ever better paper airplanes to explore how birds fly.
  • Learn about The Age of Terror Birds, the giant predatory birds that survived t-REX!