A Children's Guide to Arctic Birds

Mia Pelletier

Description

In addition to the many types of bird that live in the Arctic year-round, there are about one hundred species that travel seasonally to the Arctic to lay their eggs and raise their young.

In this book, young readers learn about twelve of the birds that call the Arctic home, whether that be for all or part of the year.

With a simple layout and easy-to-follow headings for each bird, this beautiful book is filled with fun, useful facts, including where to look for eggs and nests during the short Arctic summer and how to recognize each bird's call on the wind.

Because migratory birds live in the Arctic for part of the year, many of the feathered friends covered in A Children's Guide to Arctic Birds can be seen at various times of the year throughout North America.

Sujets

• Nunavut
• Places
• Arctic
• People
• Juvenile Nonfiction
• Polar Regions

Informations

• Publié par: Inhabit Media
• Date de parution: 15 novembre 2014
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781772270464
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 2 Mo

Extrait

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or the future stewards of this wild and faraway place.
Published by Inhabit Media Inc. www.inhabitmedia.com
Inhabit Media Inc. Iqaluit , P.O. Box 11125, Iqaluit, Nunavut, X0A 1H0 Toronto , 146A Orchard View Blvd., Toronto, Ontario, M4R 1C3
Design and layout copyright 2014 Inhabit Media Inc. Text copyright 2014 Mia Pelletier Illustrations by Danny Christopher copyright 2014 Inhabit Media Inc.
Editors: Neil Christopher and Kelly Ward Designer: Danny Christopher
All rights reserved. The use of any part of this publication reproduced, transmitted in any form or by any means, elec- tronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, or stored in a retrievable system, without written consent of the publisher, is an infringement of copyright law.
We acknowledge the financial support of the Government of Canada through the Department of Canadian Heritage Canada Book Fund.
We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts for our publishing program.
Printed in Canada
Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication
Pelletier, Mia, author A children s guide to Arctic birds by Mia Pelletier ; illustrated by Danny Christopher.
ISBN 978-1-927095-67-6 bound
1. Birds--Canada, Northern--Identification--Juvenile literature. 2. Birds--Canada, Northern--Pictorial works--Juvenile literature. I. Christopher, Danny, illustrator II. Title. III. Title: Guide to Arctic birds. IV. Title: Arctic birds.
QL695.P44 2014
j598.09719
C2014-903379-6
Table of Contents
1
Introduction
2
Bird Measurements
4
Feathers, Bills, and Feet
8
Thick-billed Murre
10
Arctic Tern
12
Red Phalarope
14
Common Eider
16
Long-tailed Duck
18
Tundra Swan
20
Gyrfalcon
22
Snowy Owl
24
Common Raven
26
Rock Ptarmigan
28
Red-throated Loon
30
Snow Bunting
32
Further Reading
32
Acknowledgements
Long-tailed duck summer