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

Jennifer Ackerman, the author of The Genius of Birds, presents a radical investigation into the bird way of being, and the recent scientific research that is dramatically shifting what humans understand about birds—how they live and how they think. Drawing on personal observations, the latest science, and her bird-related travel around the world, from the tropical rainforests of eastern Australia and the remote woodlands of northern Japan, to the rolling hills of lower Austria and the islands of Alaska’s Kachemak Bay, Jennifer Ackerman shows there is clearly no single bird way of being. In every respect, in plumage, form, song, flight, lifestyle, niche, and behavior, birds vary. As E.O Wilson once said, when someone has seen one bird, they have not seen them all.