Table of Contents

• Introduction
• What is a Bird?
• Ornithology (Ornithology and birding)
• Flight (Advantanges and adaptations for flight)
• Origin and Evolution of Birds (The evolution of flight)
• Taxonomy and Systematics (Species and evolution)
• Ethology (Behavior, innate vs. learning, personal behaviors)
• Social Behavior (Communication, Territory, Flocking, Courtship and Breeding, Nesting, Incubating, and more)
• Migration (The whys and hows of migration, What about birds that don't migrate?)
• Feathers (Kinds, molt, color)
• Ecology (Extinction, Geographical Ecology, Population Ecology)
• History of Ornithology (Very brief, mostly American)
• Concluding Remarks (You could well start here--feeding birds, binoculars, birding organizations)

Barred Owl