Everyday kids learn how they can help protect bird species, near and far, with the award-winning book Counting Birds—the real-life story behind the first annual bird count.
What can you do to help endangered animals and make a positive change in our environment? Get counting! Counting Birds is a beautifully illustrated book that introduces kids to the idea of bird counts and bird watches. Along the way, they will learn about Frank Chapman, an ornithologist who wanted to see the end of the traditional Christmas bird hunt, an event in which people would shoot as many birds as possible on Christmas. Chapman, using his magazine Bird-Lore to promote the idea of counting birds, founded the first annual bird count.
More than a century after the first bird count, bird counting helps professional researchers collect data, share expertise, and spread valuable information to help all kinds of birds around the world, from condors to hawks to kestrels and more.
Counting Birds introduces kids to a whole feathered world that will fascinate and inspire them to get involved in conservation and become citizen scientists.
This is Book 1 in the Young Naturalist Series. See all Young Naturalist books here.
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Heidi Elisabet Yolen Stemple grew up in Hatfield, Massachusetts, and after 18 years of living elsewhere, she has returned. She has also returned to the family business-writing children's books-after working as a probation/parole officer and a private investigator. Heidi is Jane Yolen's daughter and sometimes writing partner. They've co-author
More about Heidi E.Y. StempleClover Robin is a surface pattern designer, collage artist and illustrator. She delights in nature and all things botanical, inspired by a childhood of woodland walks, countryside ramble and fossil hunting by the sea. She lives in London where all of her artwork is lovingly handcrafted and created.
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