A conversational, humorous introduction to bird-watching featuring quirky full-color illustrations portray dozens of birds chatting about their distinctive characteristics, including color, shape, plumage, and beak and foot types.

A great place to start -- A rainbow of colors -- Shapes are clues -- What are they up to? -- Note the fine details -- Feathers 'n' such -- Listen closely -- Time for a field guide! -- The power of observation -- Where birds are at : habitat -- Home in the range -- To you it's vacation ; to us it's migration! -- Off you go to classification class!