Bird Feats of Montana: Including Yellowstone and Glacier National Parks

by James Lindquist (illustrator), Deborah Richie Oberbillig, Donald M. Jones

Book Overview

Discover the Big Sky's fastest, largest, smartest, and boldest birds in Bird Feats of Montana, Including Yellowstone and Glacier National Parks by Deborah Richie Oberbillig. The book features 114... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1560374632
• ISBN13: 9781560374633
• Release Date: April 2008
• Publisher: Farcountry Press
• Length: 48 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 8.1" x 11.0"

Customer Reviews

Full of Facts and Fun

Deborah Oberbillig's fascination with birds lures us into an amazing world of feathered friends who have been been given much by nature for survival and brightening our world. Bird Feats of Montana is a colorful book - full of facts from the fastest and highest flying birds to the smartest. How and where do they live? How and what do they sing? Which builds the most interesting nests? Along with everyday facts, we find out how a curlew catches a toad, how a woodpecker extends his five-inch tongue to scoop up insects and the mystery of the leaps and dances of mating Sandhill Cranes. Did you know that ospreys and owls have a reversible outer toe so that they can perch on a limb and hold on to a newly caught fish at the same time? Eagles have binocular vision which enables them to spot a pigeon three miles away. The book is well illustrated with excellent photographs and drawings along with lively text, highlighted with colorful titles. Children will learn their birds by name and even more exciting, the amazing things that they do, not only in Montana but in other parts of the country where many of the same birds are found. Written for children ages 8-12, this book will enchant and educate all ages. I highly recommend it for libraries and personal collections. It's a great grandmother's gift and grandmothers too will love reading it.

Not just for Montanans

Though it's called Bird Feats of Montana, this book will appeal to kids in any state. We live on the other side of the country, in Vermont, and a some of the birds featured in the book don't live here. But that doesn't make it any less enjoyable for my kids--what kid wouldn't want to know about the best dung collecting bird, wherever it's from? The format (one superlative bird to a page) makes it easy for kids to just open up to any page and learn something new. Great addition to the family bookshelf!

Bird Feats - A Feat for Birders

Packed with an array of anecdotes and research, written in an accessible style children and adults will enjoy - I learned many new things, e.g. the language of chickadees and the magnetic compass birds use to migrate by the stars...as a resident of Colorado, I recognize a good many of the birds in my geography. David C. Richie Wilderness Monitoring Coordinator Wilderness Workshop, Colorado

Bright fun fact book for kids and adults

This book is a great source of fun facts about many common birds in the northwest. Colorfully designed and illustrated for kids, adults will enjoy it and learn from it too. I'm a naturalist guide in Alaska, and I discovered lots of "gee whiz" facts I can share with my clients.

Neat book for kids!

I think this book is great for kids. There is so much information on birds -- the reader will really get to know them. The illustrations and layout are fun and engaging. It would be great for any family visiting Yellowstone and Glacier National Parks -- or families like ours who live in a city but dream about the wide open spaces.