The Life Cycle of a Bird
The Life Cycle of a Bird

Author: Bobbie Kalman

Publisher: Crabtree Publishing Company

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 36

ISBN-13: 9780778706540

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For ages 6-12. Although there are over 9,000 species of birds in the world, each develops from a single-celled egg, is incubated, hatches, and grows to adulthood. Some bird life cycles involve migration. The book focuses on the various stages and explains: differences in the length of time birds incubate their eggs and care for their young; the development of a chicken embryo and how a chick hatches; dangers to nesting habitats, the effects of pollution, and how these affect the life cycle of birds.

A Bird’s Life
A Bird’s Life

Author: Ellen Lawrence

Publisher: Bearport Publishing

Published: 2012-08-01

Total Pages: 28

ISBN-13: 1617726168

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A child watches a female cardinal building a nest in his backyard and decides to record what happens to the cardinal family in her diary. Readers will follow along as the young narrator observes the birds’ behavior up close, including the mother bird brooding her eggs, the chicks peeking from the nest for the first time, and the parent birds feeding and fledging their young. All the details of the birds’ lives are explored up to the time when the juvenile birds are ready to leave home. Large photos, diagrams, and clear, age-appropriate text will engage young readers as they explore the life cycle, natural habitat, physical characteristics, diet, and behavior of these colorful birds. The diary format models scientific observation and critical thinking—and encourages children to keep notebooks recording their own investigations into the natural world.

The Life Cycle of Birds
The Life Cycle of Birds

Author: Susan H. Gray

Publisher: Capstone

Published: 2011-07

Total Pages: 50

ISBN-13: 1432949799

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Explores the life cycle of birds, discussing how they are born, grow, and reproduce, and looking at adaptation, classification, and the habitats of birds.

Birds
Birds

Author: Brenda Williams

Publisher: TickTock Books

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 31

ISBN-13: 9781846960727

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A first introduction to the life cycles of birds, and a fantastic in-depth look at the lives of: hornbills, killdeers, emperor penguins, Arctic terns, bower birds, tailor birds and puffins. Six books that explore the lives of unusual animals and plants and cover all the essential life cycles information studied at Key Stages 1 and 2.

The Bizarre Life Cycle of a Cuckoo
The Bizarre Life Cycle of a Cuckoo

Author: Barbara M. Linde

Publisher: Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP

Published: 2012-08-01

Total Pages: 26

ISBN-13: 1433970465

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Many species of cuckoo lay their eggs in the nests of other birds. After the young cuckoo hatches, it may eject the other babies from the nest so it can thrive. Readers learn these and other amazing facts about the life cycle of the cuckoo through engaging and information text. Colorful photographs engage readers in the easy-to-read explanations. Fact boxes add even more weird information about the cuckoo, and graphic organizers enhance readers’ understanding of science content.

The Life Cycle of a Chicken
The Life Cycle of a Chicken

Author: Colleen Sexton

Publisher: Bellwether Media

Published: 2010-01-01

Total Pages: 26

ISBN-13: 1600144500

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"Roosters attract hens by strutting around and showing off their brilliant feathers. This book introduces children to the cycle of a chicken's life, explaining how a chick hatches from an egg and develops into an adult."

Egg to Chicken
Egg to Chicken

Author: Camilla De la Bédoyère

Publisher: W.B. Saunders Company

Published: 2010-08

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781926853376

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How many eggs do hens lay? Where do hens build their nests? What do chicks eat? Book jacket.

Life Cycle of a Penguin, The
Life Cycle of a Penguin, The

Author: Colleen Sexton

Publisher: Bellwether Media

Published: 2012-08-01

Total Pages: 26

ISBN-13: 1612112226

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Penguins must complete their life cycle in very cold temperatures. To protect their eggs from the cold, penguins use brood patches. Students will watch a penguin chick hatch from an egg and grow into an adult.

How Birds Evolve
How Birds Evolve

Author: Douglas J. Futuyma

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2024-10-29

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 0691264635

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"Why are male birds often so brightly colored? Why do some birds lay more eggs than others? Will bird species adapt to climate change? In How Birds Evolve, Douglas Futuyma invites readers into the amazing world of bird evolution to answer these and other questions. Futuyma's goal in this book is not to offer a comprehensive evolutionary history of birds, but to explore how the processes of evolution produced the distinctive features and behaviors we observe in birds today as well as their impressive diversity. Using one or two birds per chapters as a lens into broader questions, Futuyma explores how a bird's evolutionary history helps us understand the diversity of species and the bird tree of life and how natural selection explains most of the characteristics of birds from how populations adapt to sexual selection and birds' amazing social behavior. Futuyma concludes by discussing the future of birds, particularly patterns of extinction and whether they can adapt to a changing climate. Ultimately, Futuyman wants readers to see that evolutionary biology helps us to better understand birds, and that the reverse is also true: studies of birds have informed almost every aspect of evolutionary biology, from Darwin to today"--