Full of Facts (to a fault)

There are certainly a lot of facts in this book about birds. For me, though, too many unrelenting facts lined up end to end that the book blurred into sounding like and endless list. Not to say that the facts aren't interesting, but I often found myself being distracted and my mind wandering because the facts seemed to roll on and on to the point of becoming tedious. I just didn't find enough intonation in the narration to make it sound interesting. A bit like someone - a non-actor - reading the Manhattan phone book.



There are interesting things to learn about birds, but the format and narration became tedious at times.



The final part of the book is about the decline of birds through destruction of habitat and other impacts of human activity. I thought it was probably the best part of the book. The syntax was a bit more conversational. And the content interesting in terms of humankind's impact on the shrinking natural world around us.