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Briefly introduces eighteen water birds, such as grebe, cormorant, puffin, wandering albatross, and loon.

Colored illustrations and brief text describe each state bird.

Pictures 89 game birds, identifying their breeding and wintering ranges, scientific and local names, size, weight, flight speed, and nesting and feeding habits.

Discusses the physical characteristics, habitats, and behavior of the flightless birds classified as ratites.

Describes physical characteristics, habitats, and habits of some of the numerous species of doves and pigeons.

Describes the physical characteristics, behaviors, and habitats of various blackbird species.

Schoolchildren visiting the aviary at the zoo see and hear about woodpeckers, pigeons, seagulls, ostriches, and other kinds of birds.

Although the abandoned egg picked up and hatched by Mr. and Mrs. Seabird yields a turtle unlike the baby bird from their own egg, the lessons they have to impart seem to apply to both young creatures equally.

Mrs. Bird is unhappy with their home. She and Mr. Bird set forth to find a new nest but learn that home hunting is not very easy.

Transformed into a bird for a day, a child joins a flock of wild geese in glorious flight.

Describes the physical characteristics and habits of some kinds of flightless birds, including ostriches, emus, rheas, cassowaries, kiwis, and penguins.

Introduces the body adaptations, predatory behavior, and breeding of raptors, or birds of prey, including the osprey and bald eagle.

Introduces birds, describing some different types and discussing their physical characteristics, behaviors, and habitats.

Describes many aspects of bird watching from the origin of birds, bird naming, and bird calls to birdfeeders, binoculars, and keeping notes.

Describes a variety of birds as they hatch, find a mate, build their nests, and migrate.