Citizen Bird Scenes from Bird-Life in Plain English for Beginners
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Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Taschenbuch
Altersempfehlung
0 - 12 Jahr(e)
Erscheinungsdatum
20.08.2026
Verlag
Medina BooksSeitenzahl
342
Maße (L/B/H)
22,9/15,2/1,8 cm
Gewicht
496 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-2-464-10599-6
isanature-themedbookwrit ten in the late 19th century. The book integrates education about bird life with engaging narratives, making it suitable for young readers and bird en thusiasts. The central topic revolves around understanding the lives and rolesofvariousbirds,emphasizingtheirimportanceinnatureandourecosys tem, highlighting characters like Dr. Roy Hunter, his family, and their in teractions with birds. At the start of the book, a group of swallows is in troduced, discussing their concerns about the return of the human inhab itants to Orchard Farm, which threatens their nesting habits. As the swal lowsexpress their worries, wealsogetintroducedtothechildrenofDr. Roy Hunter-Nat,Dodo,andOlive-whoengageinlivelyconversationsabout birds and their characteristics. The children are eager to learn and explore, leading them to the Doctor's "wonder room," filled with bird specimens. The initial chapters set the stage for a deeper exploration of avian life, focus ing on the bonds between the bird and human worlds, while also cleverly embedding lessons about nature in an engaging, family-friendly narrative we would have you to wit, that on eggs though we sit, And are spiked on the spit, and are baked in a pan; Birds are older by far than your ancestors are, And made love and made war, ere the making of man!" (Andrew Lang.) ApartyofSwallowsperchedonthetelegraphwiresbesidethehighwaywhere it passed Orchard Farm. Theywererestingafterabreakfastofinsects, which they had caught on thewing,afterthecustomoftheirfamily. Asitwasonly the first of May they had plenty of time before nest-building, and so were having a little neighborly chat. If you had glanced at these birds carelessly, you might have thought they were all of onekind; buttheywerenot. ThesmallestwastheBankSwallow, a sober-hued little fellow, with a short, sharp-pointed tail, his back feathers looking like a dusty brown cloak, fastened in front by a neck-band between his light throat and breast
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