num_pages: 704
description: This is the book that goes beyond the field not a guide for naming the birds, but a reference for understanding them -- a complete, handy, one-volume encyclopedia on the fascinating lives of our birds.* Includes information about more than 900 complete life histories for 680 species that occur regularly in North America and shorter accounts for more than 230 others that visit occasionally, with more than 600 beautiful photographs and more than 600 range maps.* Gives every important detail about the lives of what they eat, where they build their nests, how many eggs they lay, what habitat they choose, when they migrate, what their current conservation status is, and much more.
language: English
title: Lives of North American Birds
titlecomplete: Lives of North American Birds
genres: Ornithology, Reference, Nature, Natural History, Birds, Science, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 67
publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt