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Saving Birds: Heroes Around the World

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If you've ever thought that an endangered species was impossible to save, this book will prove you wrong. Saving Birds is a wonderful book, not only for children, but also for ADULTS. How inspiring to read about such motivated individuals and their creative ways to save endangered birds! Every story takes place in a different country around the world giving us a geography lesson on every page. I hope this book gets passed along not only to bird lovers, but to all nature lovers, and world explorers.

Travel to New Zealand, Mexico, China and more on a journey to witness people saving endangered birds using very creative ideas. This book is interesting as a science book, as well as a geography book that can introduce kids to several world cultures. Kids will appreciate the lovely pictures of some of the world's most beautiful birds and parents will appreciate the very creative ways scientists have worked with local people to save endangered birds. For example, in Malaysia the feathers of the Hornbills are prized as adornments in traditional dances and ceremonies. A scientist studying the population decline of Hornbills came up with a unique solution for the villagers by substituting turkey feathers imported from Arizona. The scientist also arranged for U.S. zoos to send to Malaysia the discarded hornbill feathers from their exhibits for ceremonies requiring true hornbill feathers. The "Teachers Take Note" info found on the Tilbury House Publishers webpage for this book includes internet links to Audubon Society and the Cornell Lab of Ornithology as well as numerous prompts for researching various causes of extinction. I received this title complimentary from Tilbury House Publishers in exchange for an honest review, but the opinion is all mine.