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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

Penguin the Magpie: The Odd Little Bird Who Saved a Family | Bradley Trevor Greive, Cameron Bloom

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An injury left Sam, mother of 3 boys, paralyzed from the chest down. Then, she & her Australian family adopted an injured bird. Healing ensued. The gorgeous photography is my favourite part of this book because the text is a little heavy on schmaltz. ie: “angels come in all shapes & sizes” & “we are all our journeys, hopes & dreams clad in mortal wrapping paper. It‘s a feel-good true story & I recommend it.

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Lindy

Penguin the Magpie: The Odd Little Bird Who Saved a Family | Bradley Trevor Greive, Cameron Bloom

I love Cameron Bloom‘s photos of life with a magpie his family rescued when it was an injured fledgling.

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Lindy

Penguin the Magpie: The Odd Little Bird Who Saved a Family | Bradley Trevor Greive, Cameron Bloom

It must be said, there is no such thing as potty-training a magpie—at least so far as we could tell. After Penguin added her signature flourish to the furniture, carpet, bedspreads, curtains, hats, television and computers for the umpteenth time, we decided she was old enough to get her own apartment.
[which was a tree outside]

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Messiejessie

Penguin Bloom | Bradley Trevor Greive, Cameron Bloom

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This is such a touching story and the photography is superb. It captures the emotion perfectly and is extremely moving.

Clwojick I love all the Bradley Tyler Grieve books, and I used to follow this family on Instagram. Love their photos! 2y

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bibliothecarivs

Penguin Bloom | Bradley Trevor Greive, Cameron Bloom

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Bookwomble Not read the book, but I did enjoy the film. 3y

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Penguin Bloom | Bradley Trevor Greive, Cameron Bloom

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This book was just gorgeous! Magpies are my favourite Australian birds, so interesting and amusing. They are highly intelligent and can also recognise different faces and themselves in a mirror. I‘m looking forward to seeing the film. This was my last book of 2020.

Centique This sounds like one my dad would like! 4y

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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. 5y

Lindy @PaperbackPirate Thanks for the recommendation. Attenborough is a lovely host on nature documentaries. 5y

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 5y

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. 5y

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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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Lindy

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