Bird day : a story of 24 hours and 24 avian lives /

Bird day : a story of 24 hours and 24 avian lives /

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Author / Creator:	Hauber, Mark E., 1972- author.
Imprint:	Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2023. ©2023
Description:	xiv, 151 pages : illustrations ; 16 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Birds -- Behavior. Birds -- Behavior Informational works.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13448168

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Other authors / contributors:	Angell, Tony, illustrator.
ISBN:	9780226819402 022681940X 9780226819419
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 137-144) and index.
Summary:	"From morning to night and from the Antarctic to the equator, birds have busy days. In this short book, ornithologist Mark E. Hauber shows readers exactly how birds spend their time. Each of the book's twenty-four brief chapters covers a single bird and a single hour. At 1:00 in the night, we meet a nearly-blind kiwi, hunting with smell for earthworm prey. Later that morning, at 11:00, we float alongside a common pochard, a duck that can sleep with one eye open to avoid predators and bumping into other birds. At 8:00 that evening, we spot a hawk able to swallow bats whole in mid-flight, gorging on up to fifteen in rapid succession before retreating into the darkness. For each chapter, award-winning artist Tony Angell has depicted these scenes with his signature linocut-style illustrations--which grow increasingly light and then dark as our bird day passes"--

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Call Number:	QL698.3.H383 2023
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