I've owned this book since it was made and it fits in with the Marine Life one well, only where Marine Life is likely to capture interest and hold it, this books full of vibrant color and birds. A thing kids do see often enough to pull out a bird book on and try to identify. By no means does this book really help with that, it's covering more exotic birds, but if I had a dime for how often child me tried to use it for that, I'd be eating at a fancy restaurant without a dent to my fresh income of change!
This is one of the books I held onto and still have nearby, it's a treasure in a pretty-illustrated old way.