The Bird Way
A New Look at How Birds Talk, Work, Play, Parent, and Think
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1.0 • 1 Rating
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- £5.99
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- £5.99
Publisher Description
A SUNDAY TIMES NATURE BOOK OF THE YEAR
It's flight and egg and feathers and song. It's the demure plumage of a mountain thornbill and the extravagant tail feathers of an Indian paradise flycatcher, the solo song of a superb lyrebird and the perfectly timed duets of canebrake wrens, an osprey's hurtling dive toward the sea, and a long-legged heron's still, patient eyeing of the dark water.
There is no single bird way of being.
Drawing on personal observations, the latest science, and her bird-related travel around the world, Jennifer Ackerman playfully explores our dramatically shifting understanding of these magnificent animals.
'Jennifer Ackerman knows what she's talking about...Her knack for catching the personalities of different species in gorgeous, playful prose further collapses comfortable barriers between the human and the birdlike' Daily Telegraph
'The real joy of [this] book is its close attention to some of the specialists of the region... Ackerman is alive to the humour at play in field research ' Mark Cocker, Spectator
Customer Reviews
Written for the sound bite generation
To be clear I only read the first sixty seven pages of the book as a sample, and concluded that I would not pay £9.99 to continue reading. The book has some interesting facts about birds but seems never to get to grips with the details, or explain them fully, hence it’s probably not for you if you have an attention span longer than five minutes.