Fun Bird Facts for Kids: Fun Animal Facts For Kids
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How well do you know birds?
Wild birds live among us, as they always have. They're so familiar, we think we know them very well. Or at least we know more about them than any other wild creature. But is this true?
Wild birds have secrets. These are interesting, quirky, and just plan odd fun facts about them. That's what this book is all about. It has more than 100 astonishing and unexpected facts about birds, all fully explained. Once you've read it, you'll know more about the secret side of wild birds' lives, including:
- Where do all the birds go at sunset?
- Why do they sing as the sun is rising in Spring and Summer? And why are robins always the earliest bird to sing, even before the sun comes up?
- Can birds see in color?
- How do they stay warm, in really cold weather?
- How smart are birds? Can they play tricks on people?
- What bird is strong enough to kill a lion?
- Are birds really dinosaurs?
- Why don't penguins' feet freeze on the ice?
- What bird has no wings, and why?
- What bird can fly upside-down?
Contains more than 100 fascinating fun facts about birds with full explanations in a friendly, fun-to-read style. Sure to engage young and eco-curious readers!
Fun Bird Facts for Kids is the seventh book in the series Fun Facts for Kids from Crimson Hill Books. For ages 7 to 12 or Grades 3 to 5.
Includes 40 color photos. Suitable for libraries, home schoolers and classroom teachers who want to build kids' word power.
And don't miss: Fun Backyard Bird Facts For Kids has all the most fascinating facts about the birds that visit backyards in Canada and continental United States.
Fly out today and get your copy!
Jacquelyn Elnor Johnson
Jacquelyn Elnor Johnson believes that to be happy, you need to know how to talk and how to listen clearly and effectively. With a Masters Degree in Journalism and Communications, she is a former teacher, reporter and magazine editor, editor and now writes books and is publisher of Crimson Hill Books.
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Fun Bird Facts for Kids - Jacquelyn Elnor Johnson
Fun Bird Facts
for Kids
Jacquelyn Elnor Johnson
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First edition, May 2022.
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Johnson, Jacquelyn Elnor
Fun Bird Facts for Kids
Description: Crimson Hill Books trade ebook edition | Nova Scotia, Canada
ISBN: 978-1-990887-05-5 (Ebook – Draft2Digital)
BISAC: JNF003030 Juvenile Nonfiction: Animals - Birds
JNF016000 Juvenile Nonfiction: Curiosities & Wonders
JNF048000 Juvenile Nonfiction: Reference - General
THEMA: WNCB - Wildlife - Birds and birdwatching - General interest
YNG - Children’s - Teenage general interest - General knowledge and interesting facts
YNNK - Children’s - Teenage general interest - Birds
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Book design: Jesse Johnson
Crimson Hill Books
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Crimson Hill Products Inc.
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A close up of a logo Description automatically generatedPhoto by Public Domain Pictures pixabay swan-16736_1920A beautiful swan in a lake.
Photo 1 puffin Simon Marlow pixabay bird-4727746_1920This is an adult Puffin. They summer on the shore, but spend their winters out at sea catching fish. Puffin chicks are called Pufflings.
Do you know birds?
Look up! Can you see them?
Listen! Can you hear them?
They’re birds, and they live among us. There are 18,000 known species of birds alive today. They live everywhere humans live. They’re so familiar we think we know them very well.
We like them for their songs, their bright colors and their cheerful signal that Spring is returning at last.
We admire their incredible diversity. We are amused by their cleverness. We’re impressed by their astonishing hunting, flying, and diving abilities.
Birds entertain and inspire us, in our stories, poetry, art and music.
Even though they are a very different animal than we are, there are ways that birds are very much like people. It could be that’s another reason we’re fascinated by them.
There’s so much people have learned from birds. It is birds who first showed people that flight is possible. They challenge us to get out into nature and enjoy it. They help pollinate plants. And there are many more ways birds help humans and our planet and always have. Humans have been on earth for about six or seven million years. Birds have been here for more than 150 million years. There is no time in human history when there weren’t birds in our lives. Almost no human who has ever lived did not know birds.
But how well do we know them?
Photo 2 Archeopteryx Dotted Yeti Shutterstock shutterstock_1919427179This is how an artist thinks ancient bird Archeopteryx might have looked on a day like today, but millions of years ago.
The truth is even now, after being together for so long, birds have secrets. Though we’ve learned so much about them, there is still more to discover! That’s what this book is about.
Are birds really dinosaurs?
Some scientists say that birds are living dinosaurs. This is true, if you think about birds starting out as a dino cousin but then getting a lot smaller, developing wings and learning to fly. There were also other changes on the journey from being a dinosaur-like creature to the birds we know today. These changes happened over a very long time.
The ancient ancestor of both birds and the monster meat-eating dinosaurs is a smaller, much earlier type of dinosaur called theropods. All the theropods lived on the ground. They had sharp teeth. They could run fast. The bird most like these theropods that still lives today is the ostrich.
Some of the smaller theropods had feathers, but they couldn’t fly yet. Then some of these theropods decided to move up into the trees. Maybe it was safer there. Or they could find more food in the tree-tops. At first, all these almost-birds could do was glide between the trees. Gradually they got smaller and their bodies got lighter. Their front limbs got stronger. They learned to fly. This all started about 150 million years ago.
The earliest true bird that looked like a modern bird is called Archaeopteryx [say this: arch-ee-op-ter-icks]. Archaeopteryx was about as big