Bird Brains: The Intelligence of Crows, Ravens, Magpies, and Jays Paperback – June 2, 1997

My wife loves crows. I bought this book for her but I've spent as much time with it as she has. This is a beautiful hardbound book. It is full of wonderful, well done photographs and fascinating information about crows. if you like crows, I think you will love this book. In any case, we do.

Wonderful book on Covid’s with beautiful artist photos and information demonstrating the overlooked intelligence of Covid’s( Crows, Ravens,etc) and birds in general. We do not give enough credit to these marvelous creatures. Fully recommend this beautiful book. You won’t be Disappointed. 5/5

I am very happy with this book on ravens and other backyard birds and their intelligence and quirks.

The book cover looked old & was torn a little, the book was good though!

The vendor: The (softcover) book arrived in good time but slightly bent. That could have been due to the postal service and not the vendor, however. I was pleased that the book was in absolutely as good a condition as promised as regards its general and internal condition.The book: Excellent, good written info and nice photos. What I really liked also was that the author included a good reference list at the end. While many more studies have come out since the book was published which delve even further (and amazingly!) into corvid intelligence, I like the way she presents it to the popular audience and not just the scientific-minded like myself. It also makes a nice 'coffee table' book which can be left out so that visitors can have a look and perhaps be drawn in to the magic of corvids.

This is a very nice large format glossy coffee table type book with perhaps half of it’s pages displaying impressive and unique photographs of various members of the Corvid family of birds going about their daily business of life. This is more a work of art and joy than a scholarly research tome.The excellent photographs are accompanied by equally compelling text of the authors studies and views particularly as relates to the perplexing issue of whether these birds have intelligence and the ability to think. For the layperson and scientist alike the observations seem compelling. But the conundrum is that they have not been scientifically verified. Accepting the observations intuitively would roil present narratives of thought and consciousness so profoundly that it is a step that is being approached very slowly, deliberatively, and verifiably. As it should.But that does not mean that those outside the higher reaches of academia cannot point out what seems to be the obvious and drive the effort towards understanding and clarity, as does this author. And she does so not only in words but glorious photographs so compellingly, that for most it becomes very obvious. Given enough time the slow crawl of science is sure to confirm most if not all of what can already be found in these pages.Beautiful, well written and talented photography.

My elderly father absolutely loves it!!

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