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

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copyright @2020 by David A llen Sibley. copyright @2020 by David A llen Sibley. The longer Introduction lists and briefly summarizes topics covered in the Portfolio (evolution feathers, coloration, variation, senses, movement, physiology, migration, food and foraging, survival, social behavior, birds and humans, threats).

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What the Owl Knows: The New Science of the World’s Most Enigmatic Birds: A Book Review

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It’s also about human-owl interaction on an individual level and a wider sociocultural level, and ultimately how we can use all this for habitat and bird conservation. As the names and habitats imply, not all owl species are alike, in behavior, adaptation, relationship to humans, and in how humans perceive them.

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Unflappable by Suzie Gilbert–An Author Interview

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But Mars’s character is less about being an eagle and more about the fact that he was stolen from his nest, raised in captivity, and now considers almost all of mankind – except Luna – to be his enemy. It was when Hélène says to Ned, “And when the stakes were the highest, you raised an eagle on your glove.”.