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How Do Birds Find Their Way? Paperback - 1996

by Roma Gans; Paul Mirocha (Illustrator)

Many birds travel thousands of miles each year, migrating between summer and winter homes. Just how they find their way back and forth, sometimes returning to the exact same nesting grounds each year, has puzzled ornithologists for years. Roma Gans details the many theories scientists have proposed to explain the mysteries of migration. Full color.


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Read and find out about birds and how they navigate in this colorfully illustrated nonfiction picture book.

Birds don't need maps! Many birds make long journeys twice each year as they migrate between their winter and summer homes. Arctic terns fly more than 10,000 miles from the South Pole to northern Maine. Tiny little hummingbirds fly nonstop over the ocean for 500 miles.

How do they know which way to fly? Why don't they get lost? Read and find out the many ideas scientists have come up with to explain this mystery.

This is a clear and appealing science book for early elementary age kids, both at home and in the classroom. It's a Level 2 Let's-Read-and-Find-Out, which means the book explores more challenging concepts for children in the primary grades. The 100+ titles in this leading nonfiction series are:

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From the rear cover

Birds don't need maps!

Many birds make long journeys twice each year as they migrate between their winter and summer homes. Arctic terns fly more than 10,000 miles from the South Pole to northern Maine. Tiny little hummingbirds fly nonstop over the ocean for 500 miles. How do they know which way to fly? Why don't they get lost? Read and find out the many ideas scientists have come up with to explain this mystery.

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  • Title How Do Birds Find Their Way?
  • Author Roma Gans; Paul Mirocha (Illustrator)
  • Series Let's-Read-And-Find-Out Science 2
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition International Ed
  • Pages 32
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher HarperCollins, New York
  • Date 1996-02-01
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated, Maps
  • ISBN 9780064451505 / 006445150X
  • Weight 0.29 lbs (0.13 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.03 x 9.9 x 0.11 in (20.40 x 25.15 x 0.28 cm)
  • Ages 04 to 08 years
  • Grade levels P - 3
  • Reading level 620
  • Library of Congress subjects Birds - Migration - Juvenile literature, Birds - Migration
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 91011918
  • Dewey Decimal Code 598.252

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Citations

  • Booklist, 02/01/1996, Page 934
  • Kirkus Review - Children, 11/15/1995, Page 1633
  • School Library Journal, 04/01/1996, Page 124
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