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The Genius of Birds

Jennifer Ackerman

Start date: November 1, 2021

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Nov 02, 2021 Melissa ♥ Dog/Wolf Lover ♥ Martin rated it it was amazing

Shelves: animals, nature, library-book, 4-5-stars, beautiful-cover, audio, mother-earth-etc

4.5 Stars

I love birds!!

I listened to this from the library but I plan on getting the physical book. I quite enjoyed it!!

Mel 🖤🐶🐺🐾 ...more

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Dec 12, 2021 Ƹ̴Ӂ̴Ʒ Jenn Ƹ̴Ӂ̴Ʒ Schu rated it really liked it

Shelves: animals, science

This is a nonfiction work that I listened to on Audible. The book provides so many interesting details about our fine feathered friends. I was fascinated by what I learned from navigation abilities, behaviors and mannerisms, cognitive abilities, and resiliency in the face of environmental including habitat changes. What I would love to have seen were images and photographs which will require me to check out a paper version of the novel. I would recommend this interesting work of nonfiction to an ...more

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Jan 15, 2020 ˜”*°•.˜”*°• Sheri •°*”˜.•°*”˜ rated it liked it

Shelves: non-fiction-research

The beginning of the book is my favorite part. I’ve always loved bird watching and photographing them but I’ve never stopped to think how we downgrade their intelligence by our language. Birds really are smart creatures when you think about all they can do – navigate to faraway places without a GPS, know what the weather is going to do before it does it and go into hiding before the storm hits, some of them can learn our language when I’ve never even thought of learning theirs, plus they sing an ...more

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