Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia: Birds 1

Next to mammals, birds are the class of animals which have particularly attracted human interest and sympathy. their ability to escape and to fly enables them to carry on their activities before all beholders and to show themselves more openly than other animals or similar size. Grzimek's volume 7 contains approximately 45 articles. Species accounts are arranged by class, order and family and distribution maps are given for key species.