Do Birds Have Knees? All Your Bird Questions Answered
Ebook
Overview
This RSPB-endorsed book answers all those burning questions about birds that beginners and experts alike may ask themselves as they go about their birding.
How do ducks keep their feet from freezing in winter? Why don’t swallows stay in Africa? Are birds really dinosaurs, or were dinosaurs really birds? And do birds have knees?
Taking a ‘questions and answers’ approach, each specific question leads to an answer which expands the theme under discussion, so that all aspects of bird life and the hobby of birding are covered. The scientifically rigorous answers together form an impressive and fascinating body of bird-related information.
This highly readable book will intrigue anyone with an interest in birds.
A veritable feast of bird-related information written in a fun and accessible style.
What is a bird?
Where do birds come from?
How many birds are there?
Where do birds live?
How do birds move?
What do birds eat?
Why do birds sing?
How do birds reproduce?
How do we relate to birds?
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- Title: Do Birds Have Knees? All Your Bird Questions Answered
- Author: Stephen Moss
- Series: RSPB
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Natural History
- Print Publication Date: 2016
- Logos Release Date: 2024
- Pages: 256
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9781472932365, 9781472932358, 1472932358, 1472932366
- Resource ID: LLS:9781472932365
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2025-04-22T11:36:18Z
Stephen Moss is a naturalist, author and TV producer. His TV credits include Springwatch, Birds Britannia, and Britain's Big Wildlife Revival, while his books include Wild Hares and Hummingbirds, A Bird in the Bush: a Social History of Birdwatching and Tweet of the Day. He has travelled to all seven continents to film and write about wildlife. Stephen is one of GB's leading nature writers with a monthly column in the Guardian. He also writes for the Daily Mail, Daily Telegraph and magazines including Birdwatch, BBC Wildlife and Countryfile.