My Baby Bird - Doesn't look much like a baby bird...

Hello! I'm pretty new to crocheting - taught myself about 4 weeks ago now. I've completed one scarf and in the process of another one.

I've come across amigurumi and I think it's ADORABLE. So, I found the little pattern here for a baby bird and gave it a shot.

I obviously don't understand what happens when increasing/decreasing/crocheting in rounds. I've ended up with a sort of rippled half sphere...I've dubbed it my manta ray - I've left a long tail on it (it makes me laugh). I'd post a pic if I could but I'm not sure I can here on the forum.

Anyway, I'm wondering if anyone could direct me to a site that has SIMPLE explanations of how crochet "works" rather than just a "how-to" on the different stitches?!?!?

Thanks for any help you can offer!!!

Hopefully by now you've found help somewhere else, but just in case, I found a useful site: http://barney.gonzaga.edu/~aburton/crochrnd.html. You could also just google "crochet in the round" and there are lots of links. This site shows one way, where you start each new round with a set of chains, much like you might start a new row. The other way, often used in the amigurumi patterns I've done is to just keep going...instead of joing the last stich of row 1 to the first stitch of row 1, after the last stitch you simply do the first stitch of row 2 in the first stitch of row 1. does that make sense? If you do it this way it's VERY helpful to use something to mark the first stitch of each row b/c otherwise it gets totally lost and it just looks like one stitch in an unending circle. Safety pins, paper clips, a bit of string or the crochet stitch markers (don't make my mistake and buy the knitting variety) available at the store are all make decent stitch markers. hope this helps! :)