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The Bird Way: A Book Review

10,000 Birds

There is a lot of extreme behavior here (and a lot of that behavior takes place in Australia), but this is not simply a collection of the world’s most fantastic bird tales. Superb Lyrebird by John Burgoyne ©2020 . As Ackerman explains in her Introduction, studying extreme behavior brings new insight into what we think we know.

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What It’s Like to Be a Bird: A Review of the New Sibley Book

10,000 Birds

copyright @2020 by David A llen Sibley. It is a book with a careful infrastructure, however (even though it doesn’t have an index), with references to one section from another, enabling the curious reader to go down structured rabbit holes, pursuing information on nesting or skeletal systems or feather structure throughout the book.

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