Did you ever hear of a bird that locks the front door on his nest? Or one that plants fresh flowers in his play house every day?
Here is a book of really amazing facts about amazing birds. Some of them live half way around the world from you – but others live right in your back yard.
There is a bird that flies backward, and one that chimes like a bell. There is a bird with legs so long he looks as though he were walking on stilts, and one with legs so short you can hardly see them. There is a bird with a tail three times as long as his body – and one with no tail at all. There is even a bird that looks like the great-great-grandfather of all birds, that looked like a lizard with wings!
There are billions of birds in the world. In the United States alone there are fifty times as many birds as there are people. And out of them all, Eve Merriam has chosen the strangest – birds so extraordinary you will wonder if they really live. They do!
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