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  2. Bird intelligence - Wikipedia

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    Birds that show food hoarding behavior have also shown the ability to recollect the locations of food caches. [23] [24] Nectarivorous birds such as hummingbirds also optimize their foraging by keeping track of the locations of good and bad flowers. [25] Studies of western scrub jays also suggest that birds may be able to plan ahead. They cache ...

  3. Jennifer Ackerman - Wikipedia

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    In that book, Ackerman posits that, contrary to popular metaphors such as "bird brained," birds are actually quite intelligent and think in complex ways. [2] Called a "peppy survey of the science of bird intelligence" by The Guardian, the book was a New York Times best seller in 2017. [3] She followed up on this idea in her 2020 book The Bird ...

  4. The Genius of Birds - Wikipedia

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    The book explores birds as thinkers (contrary to the cliché "bird brain") in the context of observed behavior in the wild and brings to it the scientific findings from lab and field research. [ 2 ] New research suggests that some birds, such as those in the family corvidae , can rival primates and even humans in forms of intelligence .

  5. List of birding books - Wikipedia

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    Bird Neighbors (1897) by Neltje Blanchan was an early birding book which sold over 250,000 copies. [1] It was illustrated with color photographs of stuffed birds. [2] The Field Guide to the Birds by Roger Tory Peterson is regarded as the key birding book of the 20th century, due to its impact on the development and popularisation of birding.

  6. The New York Times' 100 Best Books of the 21st Century

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    The highest-ranked book on the list was the Elena Ferrante novel My Brilliant Friend published in 2012. Authors Ferrante, Jesmyn Ward, and George Saunders each had three books on the list, the most of any author.

  7. List of best-selling books - Wikipedia

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    Having sold more than 600 million copies worldwide, [14] Harry Potter by J. K. Rowling is the best-selling book series in history. The first novel in the series, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, has sold in excess of 120 million copies, [15] making it one of the best-selling books of all time.

  8. Helm Identification Guides - Wikipedia

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    The Helm Identification Guides are a series of books that identify groups of birds.The series include two types of guides, those that are: Taxonomic, dealing with a particular family of birds on a worldwide scale—most early Helm Guides were this type, as well as many more-recent ones, although some later books deal with identification of such groups on a regional scale only (e.g., The Gulls ...

  9. List of fictional birds of prey - Wikipedia

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    Enormous bird Kirby series: Dahila Great horned owl: Angry Birds Stella: One of Stella's friends who likes to do experiments. Eagle Eagle The Seven Adventures of Sindbad (シンドバッド7つの冒険; Shindobaddo 7tsu no bōken) A giant red eagle that carries Sinbad. Falco Lombardi: Pheasant (commonly mistaken for a peregrine falcon) Star ...