Birds: Their Life. Their Ways. Their World (by Edited by Christopher Perrins)

• 1979 edition.  411 pages plus index.
• Published by The Readers Digest Association Inc.  USA
• Hardcover with dust jacket.  Green/Fawn boards.   Large book  - approx A4 size.
• Good plus condition.  Moderate wear, fading and marks to dust jacket.  Small owner ex Libris stamp on free front end paper.

Illustrated by Ad Cameron.  Indexed.

Birds introduces you to hundreds of intriguing creatures.  It brings together a spectacular array of species from around the world.

Here are penguins and puffins from the icy seas, owls and woodpeckers from the evergreen forests, meadowlarks, tropic-birds and hundreds more.

Birds is actually two books in one.  It opens with a comprehensive description of the diverse lives of birds  - with chapters on feeding, breeding, migration, insights into the antomy of birds, social behaviour and much more.

In the second part of Birds you'll meet all 176 bird families that have ever lived on earth, including those that are now extinct.

The book contains more than 1,000 spectacular colour paintings by nature artist Ad Cameron.