Britain's Birds
Subtitle: A Treasury of Facts, Fiction and Folklore
Publisher: Pavilion Books
Published: 2022
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9781911657149
Description: **Which birds were thought to swallow stones to fly straight?**
 **Which bird can reach 200mph - the fastest animal on Earth?**
**Which bird was believed to start life as a barnacle?**
**Which bird has been called 'The British Bird of Paradise'?**

Beautifully written and illustrated, *Britain's Birds* combines folklore with fascinating facts and quotes from a wealth of literarary sources to delight, surprise and inform anyone who wants to know more about our extraordinary feathered friends.

\- *Back cover, by publisher*
Table of contents: label: Introduction
pagenum: 6; label: The Birds
pagenum: 12; label: Acknowledgements
pagenum: 233; label: Selected Bibliography
pagenum: 234; label: Index
pagenum: 236