Bird Brains: The Intelligence of Crows, Ravens, Magpies, and Jays
7 best books like Bird Brains: The Intelligence of Crows, Ravens, Magpies, and Jays (Candace Savage): The Swallows, The Unkindest Tide, The Ravenmaster: My Life with the Ravens at the Tower of London, Crow Smarts: Inside the Brain of the World's Brightest Bird, Gifts of the Crow: How Perception, Emotion, and Thought Allow Smart Birds to Behave Like Humans, Grief Cottage, Free-Range Kids: Giving Our Children the Freedom We Had Without Going Nuts with Worry
| Author | Lisa Lutz |
| ISBN | 1984818236 |
A new teacher at a New England prep school ignites a gender war--with deadly consequences--in a provocative novel from the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Spellman Files series.
What do you love? What do you hate? What do you want?
It starts with this simple writing prompt...
| Author | Seanan McGuire |
| ISBN | 0756415071 |
Hundreds of years ago, the Selkies made a deal with the sea witch: they would have the sea for as long as she allowed it, and when the time came, she would call in all their debts at once. Many people assumed that day would never come. Those people were wrong.
When the Luidaeg—October "Toby" Daye's...
The Ravenmaster: My Life with the Ravens at the Tower of London
| Author | Christopher Skaife |
| ISBN | 1443455938 |
For centuries, the Tower of London has been home to a group of famous avian residents: the ravens. Each year they are seen by millions of visitors, and they have become as integral a part of the Tower as its ancient stones. But their role is even more important than that—legend has it that if the ravens...
| Author | Pamela S. Turner |
| ISBN | 0544416198 |
One of the biggest differences between humans and animals is the ability to understand the idea of “If I do X, Y might happen.” New Caledonian crows seem to possess the intelligence to understand this “causal” concept. Why do crows have this ability? What does the crow know and what does it tell...
Stan Coren’s groundbreaking The Intelligence of Dogs meets Bernd Heinrich’s classic Mind of the Raven in this astonishing, beautifully illustrated look at the uncanny intelligence and emotions of crows.
CROWS ARE MISCHIEVOUS, playful, social, and passionate. They have brains that...
| Author | Gail Godwin |
| ISBN | 1632867044 |
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The haunting tale of a desolate cottage, and the hair-thin junction between this life and the next, from bestselling National Book Award finalist Gail Godwin.
After his mother's...
Free-Range Kids: Giving Our Children the Freedom We Had Without Going Nuts with Worry
| Author | Lenore Skenazy |
| ISBN | 0470471948 |
FREE RANGE KIDS has become a national movement, sparked by the incredible response to Lenore Skenazy's piece about allowing her 9-year-old ride the subway alone in NYC. Parent groups argued about it, bloggers, blogged, spouses became uncivil with each other, and the media jumped all over it. A lot...
