Breathtaking BirdsNew Leaf Publishing Group, 15 de febr. 2006 - 79 pàgines Ages 9 to 12 years. This book features 30 creatures, complete with full-page colour photographs and facts about their habits, habitats, special designs, and created purpose. All ages will enjoy this entertaining book. |
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Pàgina 11
... fish . It flies low over the water with its head down looking for prey . When it locates a fish , it plucks it out of the Arctic Tern CHARADRIIFORMES LARIDAE STERNA PARADISAEA WEIGHT : 4-1 / 4 ounces ( 119 grams ) LENGTH : 14-1 / 2 ...
... fish . It flies low over the water with its head down looking for prey . When it locates a fish , it plucks it out of the Arctic Tern CHARADRIIFORMES LARIDAE STERNA PARADISAEA WEIGHT : 4-1 / 4 ounces ( 119 grams ) LENGTH : 14-1 / 2 ...
Pàgina 13
... fish , mollusks , and other plankton animals . Puffins usually pair for life although they don't stay together all of the time . They congregate in large colonies during the breeding season , which lasts from March through April . When ...
... fish , mollusks , and other plankton animals . Puffins usually pair for life although they don't stay together all of the time . They congregate in large colonies during the breeding season , which lasts from March through April . When ...
Pàgina 15
... fish are the mainstay of their diet . They also eat small mammals , birds , and carrion . Eagles kill their prey by grasping it with their feet and spiking their sharp talons into the victim . They can tear the meat with their sharp ...
... fish are the mainstay of their diet . They also eat small mammals , birds , and carrion . Eagles kill their prey by grasping it with their feet and spiking their sharp talons into the victim . They can tear the meat with their sharp ...
Pàgina 17
... fish and other small aquatic creatures . Strong neck muscles help snap the prey out of the water . The bill has sharp edges near the base which keep the slippery fish from sliding out of the mouth . Skimmers are sociable , nesting ...
... fish and other small aquatic creatures . Strong neck muscles help snap the prey out of the water . The bill has sharp edges near the base which keep the slippery fish from sliding out of the mouth . Skimmers are sociable , nesting ...
Pàgina 19
... fish , which they catch by diving from heights of up to 65 feet ( 19.8 m ) . They plunge into the sea scooping up a beak full of water and fish . With the water in its pouch , it is too heavy to fly so it sits on the water's surface ...
... fish , which they catch by diving from heights of up to 65 feet ( 19.8 m ) . They plunge into the sea scooping up a beak full of water and fish . With the water in its pouch , it is too heavy to fly so it sits on the water's surface ...
Continguts
Osprey | 45 |
Ostrich | 47 |
Pileated Woodpecker | 49 |
Ptarmigan | 51 |
Rainbow Lorikeet | 53 |
Roadrunner | 55 |
Rubythroated Hummingbird | 57 |
Secretary Bird | 59 |
Common Raven | 27 |
Common Snipe | 29 |
Emperor Penguin | 31 |
Great Blue Heron | 33 |
Great Cormonrant | 35 |
Greater Flamingo | 37 |
Great Horned Owl | 39 |
Hoatzin | 41 |
Laughing Kookaburra | 43 |
Sulfurcrested Cockatoo | 61 |
Toco Toucan | 63 |
Turkey Vulture | 65 |
Wild Turkey | 67 |
Wood Duck | 69 |
Intelligent Design | 71 |
Bibliography | 79 |
Frases i termes més freqüents
20 years SPECIAL air sacs approximately archaeopteryx arctic tern Australia beak bill bird's Black Skimmer blue heron body brain breeding season brown pelican called Canada geese Canada Goose cassowary catch chicks claws color cormorant Creation Ex Nihilo dark dinosaur dive eagle emperor penguin enemies evolution evolutionists eyes feed the young female lays fish flight flocks geese Greater Flamingo ground hatch head hoatzin horned owl hunt inches insects km/h KNOW kookaburra leave the nest legs LENGTH live loon male mate migrate neck North America numbers osprey ostrich ounces parents feed parrot perch pileated woodpecker plumage pounds predators primary feathers ptarmigan puffin raven reptiles roadrunner roost secretary bird sharp skin snakes sound SPECIAL DESIGN FEATURE species swallow swim Toco Toucan toes tongue tree Turkey Vulture underwater upper usually webbed feet weeks WEIGHT wild turkey WING SPAN wood duck
Passatges populars
Pàgina 9 - Saviour : knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, and saying, Where is the promise of his coming .' for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation. For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of Opd the heavens were of old...
Pàgina 7 - For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead ; so that they are without excuse. Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful, but became vain in their imaginations. and their foolish heart was darkened. Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, and changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible...
Pàgina 8 - But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear...
Pàgina 9 - But even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not therefore; ye are of more value than many sparrows.
Pàgina 7 - And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good. And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.
Pàgina 7 - And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.
Pàgina 9 - O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called ; which some professing have erred concerning the faith.
Pàgina 9 - For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water, and in the water...
Pàgina 27 - Who covereth the heaven with clouds, who prepareth rain for the earth, who maketh grass to grow upon the mountains. He giveth to the beast his food, and to the young ravens which cry.
Pàgina 71 - In spite of some paleontologists' desperate pleas for us to accept through faith the dinosaurian origin of birds, and therefore the ground-up origin of avian flight, the details of the origin of birds remain elusive after more than a hundred and fifty years.