Bird Brains | Litsy

Bird Brains: The Intelligence of Crows, Ravens, Magpies, and Jays | Candace Savage

Stocking up on candles by ordering early so that I can set the mood when reading my spooky October books this fall. Between these and my #HauntedHollowSwap #HHS23 shopping, I'm really getting in the Halloween mood. Is it October yet?

ShelleyBooksie The brain one is cool and disturbing at the same time. 1y

CuriousG @ShelleyBooksie definitely! My husband has a brain injury, so I'm partial to things that are brains. We even have a brain cake mold 😄 1y

CuriousG @ShelleyBooksie we use dark humour to express our affection for functioning brains...and understanding for ones that don't want to cooperate (which definitely includes mine) 🙃 1y

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Lindy

Bird Brains: The Intelligence of Crows, Ravens, Magpies, and Jays | Candace Savage

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Avian brains are anatomically different from those of mammals—including humans—but birds are nevertheless intelligent creatures. Corvids are especially so, a category which includes crows, ravens, magpies & jays. Natural science makes up the majority of this large-format revised edition (1995, 2018) along with striking full-page photographs. Literary quotations run as sidebars, emphasizing the role corvids have in human culture. #CanadianAuthor

PaperbackPirate I love crows and ravens! This book sounds good. You should watch The Life of Birds with David Attenborough. 4y

Lindy @PaperbackPirate Thanks for the recommendation. Attenborough is a lovely host on nature documentaries. 4y

Catherine_Willoughby Love Crows but they are now innvading my backyard 24/7 . During height of the pandemic I didn't use my garden - no lawnmower. They came every day and picked on my dogs leftover food. It was entertainment at the time but now cant give the dog any food without them hoovering - eating my grass seeds too. Poo all over my new garden furniture & painted fence. Its horde of parents & baby crows . Cleaning up food and opening door to scare. Not working 4y

Lindy @Catherine_Willoughby Oh dear. That sounds unpleasant. We have a family of crows with three babies (now fledgings) in the spruce right next to our house. I get yelled at by an adult bird for taking scraps to the compost pile, which is near the tree, but that‘s about the extent of their inconvenience to me. 4y

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Lindy

Bird Brains: The Intelligence of Crows, Ravens, Magpies, and Jays | Candace Savage

I just noticed something interesting about two of my concurrent books.

Ruthiella I love book serendipity like that!😀 5y

batsy Nice! 🖤 5y

Lindy @Ruthiella @batsy Also, crows are nesting in the spruce outside my bedroom window. There was a big ruckus a few days ago, with many crows flying into and around that tree. I finally realized what was going on when I spotted a raven leaving the tree. Intruder! 5y

batsy @Lindy I live for #BirdDrama 😁 5y

Lindy @batsy 😂 5y

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