This book is about loving parents and faithful spouses, skilled builders and thrifty owners, ruthless predators and nectar connoisseurs, great singers and amazing dancers, about knights and pirates - about those who conquered the sky millions of years ago. You will learn how chicks are bred among the eternal ice and who has the longest tail, why birds have claws on their wings and who wears spears on their feet, who has a mouth to their ears and who cleans the savannas, whether a capercaillie is deaf and whether a fool is stupid ...For the first time, you will discover unknown pages from the life of birds - so familiar and so unknown.Learn more about your neighbors on the planet!