Armchair ornithologists can essentially make their own guide to aquatic birds with this book. The coloring pages include scientifically accurate images of an osprey, a great blue heron, a pelican, a stork, an albatross, a flamingo, and a swan, among many others. You might as well learn as you color, though, and so each illustration is accompanied by a photograph of the bird and a page-long text on its anatomy and physiology, habitats, characteristics, and mating habits.