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Summer Books for Kids (and the rest of us)

10,000 Birds

Roth; the informative, graceful text is by Susan L. Roth depicts a brown, tail-banded, evil-eyed hawk with an open-eyed parrot held upside-down, wings spread, in its claws). Sibert Informational Book Medal, which is how I heard about it, and the Américas Book Award for Children’s & Young Adult Literature.)

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The American Birding Association Field Guide to Birds of New Jersey: A Book Review

10,000 Birds

Each species account includes the following basic information: popular name, scientific name, size (length and wingspan) and weight, and symbols indicating if the male or female are larger in size where appropriate. Most field guides show photos or diagrams of birds with arrows pointing to the eye line, primaries, secondaries, etc.