What an Owl Knows
The New Science of the World's Most Enigmatic Birds
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An instant New York Times bestseller!
A New York Times Notable Book of 2023
Named a Best Book of 2023 by Publishers Weekly
From the author of The Genius of Birds and The Bird Way, a brilliant scientific investigation into owls—the most elusive of birds—and why they exert such a hold on human imagination
With their forward gaze and quiet flight, owls are often a symbol of wisdom, knowledge, and foresight. But what does an owl really know? And what do we really know about owls? Some two hundred sixty species of owls exist today, and they reside on every continent except Antarctica, but they are far more difficult to find and study than other birds because they are cryptic, camouflaged, and mostly active at night. Though human fascination with owls goes back centuries, scientists have only recently begun to understand the complex nature of these extraordinary birds.
In What an Owl Knows, Jennifer Ackerman joins scientists in the field and explores how researchers are using modern technology and tools to learn how owls communicate, hunt, court, mate, raise their young, and move about from season to season. Ackerman brings this research alive with her own personal field observations; the result is an awe-inspiring exploration of owls across the globe and through human history, and a spellbinding account of the world’s most enigmatic group of birds.
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In One Wild Bird at a Time, Heinrich returns to his great love: close, day-to-day observations of individual wild birds. Heinrich's observations lead to fascinating questions - and sometimes startling discoveries. A great crested flycatcher bringing food to the young acts surreptitiously and is attacked by the mate. Why? A pair of northern flickers hammering their nest-hole into the side of Heinrich's cabin delivers the opportunity to observe the feeding competition between siblings.
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Birds, Jim Robbins posits, are our most vital connection to nature. They compel us to look to the skies, both literally and metaphorically, draw us out into nature to seek their beauty, and let us experience vicariously what it is like to be weightless. Birds have helped us in so many of our human endeavors: learning to fly, providing clothing and food, and helping us better understand the human brain and body.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Stories about birds with something for everyone
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De: Jim Robbins
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The Thing with Feathers
- The Surprising Lives of Birds and What They Reveal About Being Human
- De: Noah Strycker
- Narrado por: Paul Boehmer
- Duración: 8 h y 17 m
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 91
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 90
Birds are highly intelligent animals, yet their intelligence is dramatically different from our own and has been little understood. As we learn more about the secrets of bird life, we are unlocking fascinating insights into memory, relationships, game theory, and the nature of intelligence itself. The Thing with Feathers explores the astonishing homing abilities of pigeons, the good deeds of fairy-wrens, the influential flocking abilities of starlings, the deft artistry of bowerbirds, the extraordinary memories of nutcrackers, and other mysteries.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Interesting book, terrible reader
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De: Noah Strycker
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A Naturalist at Large
- The Best Essays of Bernd Heinrich
- De: Bernd Heinrich
- Narrado por: Rick Adamson
- Duración: 8 h y 19 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 55
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 51
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 50
From one of the finest scientists and writers of our time comes an engaging record of a life spent in close observation of the natural world, one that has yielded marvelous, mind-altering insight and discoveries. In essays that span several decades, Bernd Heinrich finds himself at his beloved camp in Maine, plays host to annoying visitors from Europe (the cluster fly) and more helpful guests from Asia (ladybugs), and unravels the far-reaching ecological consequences of elephants in Botswana bruising mopane trees.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Listen and See the World Anew!
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De: Bernd Heinrich
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Becoming Wild
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- De: Carl Safina
- Narrado por: Carl Safina
- Duración: 13 h y 51 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 161
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 132
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 129
Some people insist that culture is strictly a human feat. What are they afraid of? This book looks into three cultures of other-than-human beings in some of Earth's remaining wild places. It shows how if you're a sperm whale, a scarlet macaw, or a chimpanzee, you too experience your life with the understanding that you are an individual in a particular community. You too are who you are not by genes alone; your culture is a second form of inheritance. And your culture, too, changes and evolves.
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5 out of 5 stars
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It all sinks in over the story—highly recommend
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De: Carl Safina
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The Armchair Birder
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- De: John Yow
- Narrado por: Kevin Young
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 94
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While birding literature is filled with tales of expert observers spotting rare species in exotic locales, John Yow reminds us that the most fascinating birds can be the ones perched right outside our windows. In thirty-five engaging and sometimes irreverent vignettes, Yow reveals the fascinating lives of the birds we see nearly every day. Following the seasons, he covers forty-two species, discussing the improbable, unusual, and comical aspects of his subjects' lives.
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4 out of 5 stars
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- De Kathy in CA en 02-23-17
De: John Yow
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One Wild Bird at a Time
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- De: Bernd Heinrich
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In One Wild Bird at a Time, Heinrich returns to his great love: close, day-to-day observations of individual wild birds. Heinrich's observations lead to fascinating questions - and sometimes startling discoveries. A great crested flycatcher bringing food to the young acts surreptitiously and is attacked by the mate. Why? A pair of northern flickers hammering their nest-hole into the side of Heinrich's cabin delivers the opportunity to observe the feeding competition between siblings.
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An Adventure In Nature
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De: Bernd Heinrich
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Superlative
- The Biology of Extremes
- De: Matthew D. LaPlante
- Narrado por: George Newbern
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The world's largest land mammal could help us end cancer. The fastest bird is showing us how to solve a century-old engineering mystery. The oldest tree is giving us insights into climate change. The loudest whale is offering clues about the impact of solar storms. For a long time, scientists ignored superlative life forms as outliers. Increasingly, though, researchers are coming to see great value in studying plants and animals that exist on the outermost edges of the bell curve.
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Fascinating survey of amazing biology
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Feathers
- The Evolution of a Natural Miracle
- De: Thor Hanson
- Narrado por: Andy Ingalls
- Duración: 8 h y 20 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 165
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 150
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Feathers are an evolutionary marvel: Aerodynamic, insulating, beguiling. They date back more than 100 million years. Yet their story has never been fully told. In Feathers, biologist Thor Hanson details a sweeping natural history, as feathers have been used to fly, protect, attract, and adorn through time and place. Applying the research of paleontologists, ornithologists, biologists, engineers, and even art historians, Hanson asks: What are feathers? How did they evolve? What do they mean to us?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fantastic Science and Fun
- De Chris Reich en 12-28-14
De: Thor Hanson
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A Most Remarkable Creature
- The Hidden Life and Epic Journey of the World's Smartest Birds of Prey
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- Narrado por: Jonathan Meiburg
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An enthralling account of a modern voyage of discovery as we meet the clever, social birds of prey called caracaras, which puzzled Darwin, fascinate modern-day falconers, and carry secrets of our planet's deep past in their family history.
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I don't leave reviews often, but . . .
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Our Wild Calling
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Richard Louv's landmark book, Last Child in the Woods, inspired an international movement to connect children and nature. Now Louv redefines the future of human-animal coexistence. Our Wild Calling explores these powerful and mysterious bonds and how they can transform our mental, physical, and spiritual lives, serve as an antidote to the growing epidemic of human loneliness, and help us tap into the empathy required to preserve life on Earth.
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Sharing our world
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Gifts of the Crow
- How Perception, Emotion, and Thought Allow Smart Birds to Behave Like Humans
- De: John Marzluff, Tony Angell
- Narrado por: Danny Campbell
- Duración: 8 h y 15 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 263
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 214
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 214
New research indicates that crows are among the brightest animals in the world. And professor of Wildlife Science at the University of Washington John Marzluff has done some of the most extraordinary research on crows, which has been featured in the New York Times, National Geographic, and the Chicago Tribune, as well as on NPR and PBS. Now he teams up with artist and fellow naturalist Tony Angell to offer an in-depth look at these incredible creatures - in a book that is brimming with surprises.
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4 out of 5 stars
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You Will Never Look At A Crow The Same Way Again
- De Diane en 06-30-12
De: John Marzluff, y otros
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The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs
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- De: Steve Brusatte
- Narrado por: Patrick Lawlor
- Duración: 10 h y 7 m
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 4,012
In this stunning narrative spanning more than 200 million years, Steve Brusatte, a young American paleontologist who has emerged as one of the foremost stars of the field - discovering 10 new species and leading groundbreaking scientific studies and fieldwork - masterfully tells the complete, surprising, and new history of the dinosaurs, drawing on cutting-edge science to dramatically bring to life their lost world and illuminate their enigmatic origins, spectacular flourishing, astonishing diversity, cataclysmic extinction, and startling living legacy.
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Wild Ones
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- De: Jon Mooallem
- Narrado por: Fred Sanders
- Duración: 10 h y 16 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 255
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 223
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 225
Half of all species could disappear by the end of the century, and scientists now concede that most of America’s endangered animals will survive only if conservationists keep rigging the world around them in their favor. So Jon Mooallem ventures into the field, often taking his daughter with him, to move beyond childlike fascination and make those creatures feel more real. Wild Ones is a tour through our environmental moment and the eccentric cultural history of people and wild animals in America that inflects it.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The line between conservation and domestication...
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De: Jon Mooallem
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The Great Animal Orchestra
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- De: Bernie Krause
- Narrado por: Bernie Krause
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 52
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Musician and naturalist Bernie Krause is one of the world's leading experts in natural sound, and he's spent his life discovering and recording nature's rich chorus. Searching far beyond our modern world's honking horns and buzzing machinery, he has sought out the truly wild places that remain, where natural soundscapes exist virtually unchanged from when the earliest humans first inhabited the earth.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Too frustrating to put up with
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In the Company of Bears
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- De: Benjamin Kilham
- Narrado por: George Backman
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 45
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Imagine raising an orphaned bear cub, carefully reintroducing her to the wild, then being welcomed back, almost daily, to observe her wild world for more than 17 years. Imagine visiting her in her feeding spots, watching her with her mates and her young, peering into her den, and, over time, observing the lives of all the other wild bears in her territory and surrounding ones. That is what happened to Ben Kilham.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Amazing book!
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The Beak of the Finch
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- De: Jonathan Weiner
- Narrado por: Victor Bevine
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 379
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Rosemary and Peter Grant and those assisting them have spend 20 years on Daphne Major, an island in the Galapagos, studying natural selection. They recognize each individual bird on the island, when there are 400 at the time of the author's visit or when there are over a thousand. They have observed about 20 generations of finches - continuously.Jonathan Weiner follows these scientists as they watch Darwin's finches and come up with a new understanding of life itself.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating in-depth look at evolution in action
- De Philip en 05-15-11
De: Jonathan Weiner
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The Bald Eagle
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- De: Jack E. Davis
- Narrado por: Dan John Miller
- Duración: 15 h y 2 m
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The bald eagle is regal but fearless, a bird you’re not inclined to argue with. For centuries, Americans have celebrated it as “majestic” and “noble,” yet savaged the living bird behind their national symbol as a malicious predator of livestock and, falsely, a snatcher of babies.
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2 out of 5 stars
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I thought the book would be about the bald eagle
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The Hidden Life of Trees
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- De: Peter Wohlleben
- Narrado por: Mike Grady
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How do trees live? Do they feel pain or have awareness of their surroundings? Research is now suggesting trees are capable of much more than we have ever known. In The Hidden Life of Trees, forester Peter Wohlleben puts groundbreaking scientific discoveries into a language everyone can relate to.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Tree Hugger
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De: Peter Wohlleben
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 17
Raging ambition. Towering egos. Competition under a veneer of courtesy. Heroic effort combined with plagiarism, theft, exaggeration, and fraud. This was the state of bird study in eastern North America during the early 1800s, as a handful of intrepid men raced to find the last few birds that were still unknown to science. The most famous name in the bird world was John James Audubon, who painted spectacular portraits of birds. But although his images were beautiful, creating art was not his main goal. Instead, he aimed to illustrate (and write about) as many different species as possible.
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I LOVE the audible version of this book
- De NYC person en 10-01-24
De: Kenn Kaufman
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How to Know the Birds
- The Art and Adventure of Birding
- De: Ted Floyd
- Narrado por: Graham Winton
- Duración: 9 h y 35 m
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Become a better birder with brief profiles of 200 top North American birds. This friendly, relatable audiobook is a celebration of the art, science, and delights of bird-watching. How to Know the Birds introduces a new, holistic approach to bird-watching, by noting how behaviors, settings, and seasonal cycles connect with shape, song, color, gender, age distinctions, and other features traditionally used to identify species. With short essays on 200 observable species, expert author Ted Floyd guides us through a year of becoming a better birder.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Great book but poorly indexed
- De Chris Nabel en 10-09-19
De: Ted Floyd
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Lost Among the Birds
- Accidentally Finding Myself in One Very Big Year
- De: Neil Hayward
- Narrado por: Sam Devereaux
- Duración: 10 h y 56 m
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Early in 2013 Neil Hayward was at a crossroads. He didn't want to open a bakery or whatever else executives do when they quit a lucrative but unfulfilling job. He didn't want to think about his failed relationship with 'the one' or his potential for ruining a new relationship with 'the next one'. And he almost certainly didn't want to think about turning 40. And so instead he went birding. Birding was a lifelong passion. It was only among the birds that Neil found a calm that had eluded him in the confusing world of humans.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Know a Birder? This will help you Understand.
- De Carole T. en 08-27-17
De: Neil Hayward
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Flight Paths
- How a Passionate and Quirky Group of Pioneering Scientists Solved the Mystery of Bird Migration
- De: Rebecca Heisman
- Narrado por: Allyson Ryan
- Duración: 8 h y 32 m
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 28
For the past century, scientists and naturalists have been steadily unravelling the secrets of bird migration. How and why birds navigate the skies, traveling from continent to continent—flying thousands of miles across the earth each fall and spring—has continually fascinated the human imagination, but only recently have we been able to fully understand these amazing journeys.
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2 out of 5 stars
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I should have read the description more carefully
- De non de plume en 11-17-24
De: Rebecca Heisman
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Why Animals Talk
- The New Science of Animal Communication
- De: Arik Kershenbaum
- Narrado por: John Hastings
- Duración: 8 h y 40 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 3
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 3
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Why Animals Talk is an exhilarating journey through the untamed world of animal communication. Following his international bestseller, The Zoologist’s Guide to the Galaxy, acclaimed zoologist Arik Kershenbaum draws on extensive original research to reveal how many of the animal kingdom’s most seemingly confusing or untranslatable signals are in fact logical and consistent—and not that different from our own.
De: Arik Kershenbaum
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The Hawk's Way
- Encounters with Fierce Beauty
- De: Sy Montgomery
- Narrado por: Sy Montgomery
- Duración: 1 h y 58 m
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In this mesmerizing account, Sy Montgomery passionately and vividly reveals the wonderous world of hawks and what they can teach us about nature, life, and love.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Excellent Sy Montgomery Intro
- De Cameron en 11-26-23
De: Sy Montgomery
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Life on Earth
- De: David Attenborough
- Narrado por: David Attenborough
- Duración: 12 h y 26 m
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To celebrate the 40th anniversary of the book’s first publication, David Attenborough has revisited Life on Earth, completely updating and adding to the original text, taking account of modern scientific discoveries from around the globe....
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5 out of 5 stars
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100% Pure Attenborough
- De Dave en 09-25-18
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The Power of Trees
- How Ancient Forests Can Save Us if We Let Them
- De: Peter Wohlleben, Jane Billinghurst
- Narrado por: Mike Grady
- Duración: 7 h y 58 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 15
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In his beloved book The Hidden Life of Trees, Peter Wohlleben revealed astonishing discoveries about the social networks of trees and how they communicate. Now, in The Power of Trees, he turns to their future, with a searing critique of forestry management, tree planting, and the exploitation of old growth forests. At the heart of The Power of Trees lies Wohlleben’s passionate plea: that our survival is dependent on trusting ancient forests, and allowing them to thrive.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Critical Urgency
- De Ya'at'eeh en 01-07-24
De: Peter Wohlleben, y otros
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Ah-Choo!
- The Uncommon Life of Your Common Cold
- De: Jennifer Ackerman
- Narrado por: Emily Durante
- Duración: 7 h y 2 m
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 12
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 8
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 7
Scientists call this the Golden Age of the Common Cold because Americans suffer up to a billion colds each year, resulting in 40 million days of missed work and school and 100 million doctor visits. They've also learned over the past decade much more about what cold viruses are, what they do to the human body, and how symptoms can be addressed. In this ode to the odious cold, Jennifer Ackerman sifts through the chatter about treatments and dispels myths.
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4 out of 5 stars
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some mistakes, but the first good book on topic
- De Michael en 01-29-11
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The (Big) Year That Flew By
- Twelve Months, Six Continents, and the Ultimate Birding Record
- De: Arjan Dwarshuis, Mark Obmascik - foreword
- Narrado por: Madison Niederhauser
- Duración: 9 h y 56 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 19
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 18
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 18
When Arjan Dwarshuis first heard of the “Big Year”—the legendary record for birdwatching—he was twenty years old, it was midnight, and he was sitting on the roof of a truck in the Andean Mountains. In that moment he promised himself that, someday, somehow, he would become a world-record-holding birder. Ten years later, he embarked on an incredible, arduous, and perilous journey that took him around the globe; over uninhabited islands, through dense unforgiving rainforests, across snowy mountain peaks and unrelenting deserts—in just a single year.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Disappointing
- De nick en 10-14-23
De: Arjan Dwarshuis, y otros
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre What an Owl Knows
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- abingso
- 08-07-23
Exceptional Book
A rich, fascinating account, well written and thoroughly researched; well read; and full of interesting details that convey the author’s deep commitment to these amazing birds.
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- Happy Doc
- 04-14-24
Awesome story and excellent narration
Five star performance . Engaging narrator with a great sense of humor. Highly recommended. Fun.
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- History Buff
- 07-14-23
Informative
Great survey of our beautiful owes broad in scope, wee-researched. Enjoyed it. Wonderful sensitivity to our endangered friends
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- Michael G. T. Thompson
- 12-17-24
The dedication and fierce commitment of the author
An engrossing, moving story, combining science with lighthearted humor . It made me want to find out what I could do to help.
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- AtticusNB
- 07-10-23
Loved this book!
Thank you for writing this book. I benefited greatly! I loveeeeeee owls always and forever.
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- The Mark
- 02-23-24
Enjoyed this.
Learned a lot about owls. Nice pace and well read. Enjoyable. Thanks to the author.
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- Always curious
- 02-27-24
A book not to be missed
The magnificence of owls and their many species was worth learning about. The stories about the researchers were amazing. The author does an incredible job making this book interesting. It does not read like an encyclopedia.
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- Curious and carefree
- 09-13-24
Needs a different reader
Owls are amazing! I just wish the author had picked a professional reader. Her voice is a bit irritating.
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- Jim Cira
- 04-08-24
Simply Fantastic!
The knowledge I now have regarding owls is simply priceless! Well written, well researched and extremely entertaining! This is the perfect book for a birder, from novice to expert!
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- Elizabeth A
- 09-14-23
Fantastic piece!
Loved the content & narrator! Great listen while driving to work. Loved the content & narrator! Great listen while driving to work.
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