![]() It’s about common bird behavior globally.Įven the Australian turkey has it’s own look compared to its U.S. ![]() Therefore, if you’re looking for information about birds in your area, and you’re in the United States, Canada, or Europe, this book isn’t what you’re looking for. Birds have tiny, stupid brains? Wrong (yes, their brains are tiny, but their neurons are so much closer than ours that the process greater amounts of information than you’d expect). Females and chicks are always dull in color? Wrong. Only male birds sing for the purpose of mating? Wrong. ![]() Thus, what we know is misleading because we’re basing our perceptions of birds off the outliers. ![]() For instance, most ornithologists study birds in North America and Europe however, in these temperate regions, the birds behave oddly compared to the rest of the entire planet. He interviewed the author, Jennifer Ackerman, about her new work, The Bird Way (published May 5, 2020) in which she does exactly what the subtitle says: she shares research and anecdotes about birds across the world and the way they talk, work, play, parent, and think.įirstly, this book changed the way I think about birds in nearly every way. I’ve shared several reviews of books that you all have shared with me, and I just finished another spotlighted on CBS Sunday Morning news, a nonfiction work recommended by Jeff Glor. There’s something about this pandemic that makes me want to connect with other readers by getting my hands on the books they’ve liked. ![]()
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