thecaptainsquarters 's review for:

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

4.0

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Ahoy there mateys! I love books that deal with nature and particularly with birds.  This book looks into the newest research involving bird behavior and how traditional science sometimes gets it wrong.  Matey Melanie put this on the radar.  It is so darn good.  I was sharing bird facts with everyone cause there were just so many amazing ones.  Australian kites can manipulate fire to hunt.  Ravens can solve extremely complicated puzzles.  Veeries can change both their breeding and migration patterns months in advance of hurricanes.  Hummingbirds have memories so good that they can remember the exact flowers they have already eaten from.  The section on bird warning calls was amazing.  I don't tend to retain a lot of facts from non-fiction but I certainly would listen to this again. Arrr!