num_pages: 224
description: A step-by-step workbook that guides readers through the challenges of enjoying bird watching. Burton Guttman firmly believes that people learn best by doing. No other book for beginning bird watchers involves the reader so actively in the exciting first steps of learning to watch birds. This workbook is filled with quizzes and exercises that prepare the reader for going birding and help beginners develop a sense of accomplishment and progress. With each chapter covering a different aspect of bird watching the author guides readers along a threefold path: learning how to really see birds how to sort birds by category and how to learn the easiest birds first. Exercises include analyzing what types of food birds bills are adapted for and sketching the shapes of birds in different categories. Quiz questions ask readers to identify what type of duck feeds by tipping its rear end up in the air and extending its neck downward or to identify a small brownish bird clinging to a weed stalk and picking out seeds. Plenty of room is provided for writing and sketching and answers are supplied in the back of the book.
language: English
title: Finding Your Wings: A Workbook for Beginning Bird Watchers
publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt