Classification: Focus on: Birds shows children how to identify and group birds according to their characteristics. It answers questions such as what is a bird? Where do birds live? What do birds eat? And how do birds get around? Along with many others.

The book looks at birds from owls and penguins to eagles and hawks and their young, as well as some more unusual birds such as pelicans and secretary birds. It also offers advice on keeping birds as pets.

The book also contains a useful scale to demonstrate the size of many amphibians in comparison to an adult man, along with a topic web, a glossary and some suggestions for extension activities.

Other titles in the series include Classification: Focus on: Amphibians, Classification: Focus on: Insects, Classification: Focus on: Reptiles, Classification: Focus on: Mammals and Classification: Focus on: Fish.

This book features in the following series: Animals, Classification Series, Classification-Focus On .

There are 32 pages in this book. This book was published 2014 by Hachette Children's Group .

The author, Stephen Savage, is a biologist, natural history lecturer and Associate Member of the

This book has the following chapters:

• 1: What a difference!
• 2: Where birds live
• 3: Catching a meal
• 4: Hot and cold
• 5: Getting around
• 6: Hatching and raising chicks
• 7: Pet birds
• 8: Unusual birds
• 9: Scale of birds
• 10: Glossary and Topic web
• 11: Activities and Find out more