Reviews

The Bird Way: A New Look at How Birds Talk, Work, Play, Parent, and Think by Jennifer Ackerman

toadalvin's review

adventurous informative relaxing medium-paced

3.75

samstillreading's review

Very interesting, however I learned that my fascination is mainly with parrots and cockatoos.

Thanks to Scribe for the copy.

cherit's review

3.5

Birds are fascinating! I picked this one up at a secondhand book sale, and am looking forward to her more successful Genius of Birds and her newer book about owls.

lacyk_reads's review

4.0

Very enjoyable read about some really cool birds, many of which I’d never heard of. I kept having to stop reading to look up the species to have a bit clearer description. That meant that I learned a lot while reading this book! Definitely some fascinating stories that indicate the intelligence of birds. I especially loved the section on play.

tiredcreature's review against another edition

funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective relaxing medium-paced

5.0

fracturing's review

4.0

I learned so much from this book! And I took it on a weeklong camping vacation to Maine with my family and wouldn’t stop peppering them with Bird Facts and they couldn’t get away from me! So now we’ve all learned so much! Muahahah!!

I just occasionally kind of got a weird colonizer vibe from this.... Like sometimes I’d end up picturing a bunch of white people crashing around in the jungle and trying to document stuff that indigenous people have always known and would’ve happily told them if they asked?

Idk I recently watched some documentary about a photography team filming mating dances of birds of paradise and it got me feeling some sort of Heart-of-Darkness kind of way. That plus recently finishing an Indigenous History of the US and I’m all on this super FCK THE COLONIZERS wavelength right now and I probably just projected it onto this.

But I’ve got a few quotes I highlighted that I’ll try to remember to come back and put in here one day so you see what I’m talking about. Maybe.

lavinia_speaks's review

adventurous emotional funny informative mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

rc_hof's review against another edition

funny informative inspiring lighthearted medium-paced

4.5

knit_the_resistance's review against another edition

adventurous funny informative inspiring lighthearted sad fast-paced

5.0

Delightfully written and wildly informative.

rachel_smrt's review

3.0

My mom got me this and I've been slowly reading it for months before bed because it is nice and calming and birds do have have a funky way, as the title indicates! feels a bit random at times, like here's one bird okay here's a TOTALLY DIFFERENT BIRD here's a third bird look out we got another bird coming, they're all birds, this author went all over the place meeting these birds. so, no overarching narrative about any particular bird way, but it is shifting my sense of how smart birds are! they use tools! they play goofy games! they steal stuff! watch out for the skies!