Birds, birds, birds... Hummingbirds and ostriches... Forest birds, field birds, desert birds, mountain birds, water birds, cave dwellers, predators and peaceful creatures, singers and the silent... Who flies better than a bird? No one. Twice a year, Arctic terns travel up to 20,000 kilometers—from pole to pole. Some birds soar high in the sky, rarely touching the ground, and even sleep while in flight. There are wingless birds that fly no better than a turtle. Birds are everywhere. At the poles and in the tropics. Finland is home to around sixty million of them. England may have two hundred million, and across the globe, there are over a billion! Such is the avian population of our planet. And the species and varieties? Thousands upon thousands. This book will tell you all about it. A huge thank you to user Alexeew for providing the scans for processing into djvu format. Other works by Igor Ivanovich Akimushkin available on the site include: From Evening to Morning, The Tragedy of Wild Animals, Once Upon a Time There Was a Beaver, It’s All About Cats, Who Flies Without Wings?, Where? and How?, Nature’s Oddities, The First Settlers of the Land, The Animal World, Vol. 1, The Animal World, Vol. 2, The Animal World, Vol. 4, The Animal World, Vol. 5, The Animal World, Vol. 6, Sea Primates, Tracks of Unseen Beasts, and The Path of Legends.