Gifts of the Crow: How Perception, Emotion, and Thought Allow Smart Birds to Behave Like Humans
9 best books like Gifts of the Crow: How Perception, Emotion, and Thought Allow Smart Birds to Behave Like Humans (John M. Marzluff): Mind of the Raven: Investigations and Adventures with Wolf-Birds, Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses, Bird Sense: What It's Like to Be a Bird, Corvus: A Life with Birds, Bird Brains: The Intelligence of Crows, Ravens, Magpies, and Jays, Feathers: The Evolution of a Natural Miracle, Crow Planet: Essential Wisdom from the Urban Wilderness, Birding Without Borders: An Obsession, a Quest, and the Biggest Year in the World, Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology
| Author | Bernd Heinrich |
| ISBN | 0060930632 |
In Mind of the Raven, Bernd Heinrich, award - winning naturalist, finds himself dreaming of ravens and decides he must get to the truth about this animal reputed to be so intelligent.
Much like a sleuth, Heinrich involves us in his quest, letting one clue lead to the next. But as animals can only...
| Author | Robin Wall Kimmerer |
| ISBN | 0870714996 |
Living at the limits of our ordinary perception, mosses are a common but largely unnoticed element of the natural world. Gathering Moss is a beautifully written mix of science and personal reflection that invites readers to explore and learn from the elegantly simple lives of mosses.Robin Wall Kimmerer's...
| Author | Tim Birkhead |
| ISBN | 0802779662 |
Most people would love to be able to fly like a bird, but few of us are aware of the other sensations that make being a bird a gloriously unique experience. What is going on inside the head of a nightingale as it sings, and how does its brain improvise? How do desert birds detect rain hundreds of kilometers...
| Author | Esther Woolfson |
| ISBN | 1847080294 |
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Birds have arrived, the chosen and the unwanted, the damaged, the accidentally displaced from nests. They have stayed, or gone, leaving, all of them, their own determined avian imprint,...
| Author | Candace Savage |
| ISBN | 0871569566 |
Birds have long been viewed as the archetypal featherbrains—beautiful but dumb. But according to naturalist Candace Savage, “bird brain,” as a pejorative expression, should be rendered obsolete by new research on the family of corvids: crows and their close relations.
The ancients...
| Author | Thor Hanson |
| ISBN | 0465020135 |
Feathers are an evolutionary marvel: aerodynamic, insulating, beguiling. They date back more than 100 million years. Yet their story has never been fully told. In Feathers, biologist Thor Hanson details a sweeping natural history, as feathers have been used to fly, protect, attract, and adorn through...
| Author | Lyanda Lynn Haupt |
| ISBN | 0316019100 |
I thought this book was going to be about crows, and it WAS supposed to be about crows. That's what her editor asked her to do and it almost seemed that she felt the subject was beneath her. I find crows fascinating and an integral part of our cities ecosystem, not to mention they are scarily intelligent....
Birding Without Borders: An Obsession, a Quest, and the Biggest Year in the World
| Author | Noah Strycker |
| ISBN | 0544558146 |
Traveling to 41 countries in 2015 with a backpack and binoculars, Noah Strycker became the first person to see more than half the world’s 10,000 species of birds in one year.
In 2015, Noah Strycker set himself a lofty goal: to become the first person to see half the world’s birds in one year....
Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology
| Author | David Abram |
| ISBN | 0375421718 |
David Abram’s first book, The Spell of the Sensuous—hailed as “revolutionary” by the Los Angeles Times, as “daring and truly original” by Science—has become a classic of environmental literature. Now Abram returns with a startling exploration of our human entanglement with the...
