The Thing with Feathers : The Surprising Lives of Birds and What They Reveal About Being Human (Paperback)

from Jaylia3

Author Noah Strycker is not someone to sit back and enjoy birds from a distance. He's trekked within a few feet of a mating albatross pair, grabbed hold of penguins to attach GPS tags, and as a teenager he brought home a roadside deer carcass in his trunk, which filled his car with such an overwh...

from dickmanikowski

Fascinating collection of essays exploring various behavioral aspects of birds. The author investigates phenomena as varied as the incredibly synchronized flight of starling flocks, the elaborate constructions that male bowerbirds build to lure mates, and the crankiness of hummingbirds.

from karenweyant

I am a birder by default. When I was a child, I used to sit on the couch in our living room and watch the birds in my mother's birdfeeder, rooting for the Juncos to beat out the Blue Jay bullies. My brothers were both birders, so I learned early the different sparrows and finches that came to fee...

from JanesList

I really enjoyed this book, and found it quite readable. It used to be that if scientists identified traits in animals that we find in humans, it was derided as sentimental anthropomorphism, and not science. Some scientists are now moving to where they recognize that we humans are types of animal...

from jugglingpaynes

The Thing with Feathers: The Surprising Lives of Birds and What They Reveal About Being Human by Noah Strycker is an interesting study of bird behavior with parallels to our own human existence. The book is broken up into three sections, representing body, mind, and spirit, and covers a wide vari...