Bird Migration: An Illustrated Account

by Robert Burton

Book Overview

"Illustrated throughout with color photos, this book looks at the migratory patterns and habits of various birds around the world." This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816027811
• ISBN13: 9780816027811
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: Facts on File
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 8.8" x 11.0"

Customer Reviews

Picturing the voyages

This book is well done, with fantastic pictures and direct text. Perhaps my favorite pictures included the large groups of red knots and snow geese. The narratives on navigation and flight plans were particularly good at explaining what can be complex. The examples were from both North America and Europe, and as a North American the problems of crossing the Sahara were new to me. The maps really illustrate the points, and the map with the gnomic versus Mercator projection was a great example. A step up from the average "coffee table" picture book.