Product Description: Suitable for ages 4 to 8 years, this illustrated book helps children understand why and how birds lay eggs and how hatchlings emerge from their shells. It offers descriptions of bird bodies, how most baby birds are dependent on their mothers for food and protection, how the babies communicate with their mothers, and how they learn to fly...read more

Product Description: The definitive book on the family life of birds.An American avocet hatches from its shell. A baby grebe crawls onto its mother's back. A tiny young tundra swan, or cygnet, marches with its siblings across the Arctic to find water...read more

Product Description: Begging by nestling birds has become the model system for investigating evolutionary conflicts of interest within families and their theoretical resolution provided by honest signals of offspring need. In response to the recent explosions of scientific papers on the revolution of begging; we have brought together twenty-four original contributions from major researchers in all areas of this dynamic field...read more

Describes the daily life of two young sister eaglets, from their struggle to break out of their eggs to the time when flight feathers replace their down

Follows each stage of the transformation from egg to bird

Describes the life cycle of birds, and discusses territories, nesting sites, nest construction, brood parasitism, and the care of young fledglings