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Publisher: Atria Books; Reprint edition (March 25, 2010)
Publication Date: April 6, 2010
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Language: English
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MONTGOMERY, SY. Birdology: Adventures with Hip Hop Parrots, Cantankerous Cassowaries, Crabby Crows, Peripatetic This a very good book by a very good author on all things animal, but especially on birds. It’s also the fourth book of hers I’ve reviewed, all positively. No! Not positively. Enthusiastically! Because she has the same attitude toward animals that I think all human beings should have: animals are these wonderful cohabitants of our world who teach us humility (we don’t know everything nor is our way the only way), love and compassion. But unlike many other much soupier writers, she does this without excess infusions of unneeded and obfuscatory sentimentality. Instead, heart. Thepoint is that no matter how involved she is with her subjects, she’s not a bleeding heart. She’s a scientist with a heart.An example: this is what she said to an interviewer who wanted to know what she had learned from her work with animals. She replied: “How to be a good creature. How do you be compassionate?… I think that animals teach compassion better than anything else and compassion doesn’t necessarily just mean a little mouse with a sore foot and you try to fix it. It means getting yourself inside the mind and heart of someone else. Seeing someone’s soul, looking for their truth. Animals teach you all of that and that’s how you get compassion and heart.†The New York Times called her “equal parts poet and scientist.†The Boston Globe: “part Indiana Jones and part Emily Dickinson.â€Birdology is a rambling but yet focused look at our dinosaur-related cousins, those truly alien creatures, birds. Chickens first (she wrote lovingly of them in her best known book, The Good, Good Pig). Then cassowaries, then hummingbirds, hawks, pigeons, parrots, and crows. In every chapter, she has both anecdotes and facts to make us realize what they have that we don’t, and how much richer the world is that embraces us along with them –birds along with (arrogant) humans. This is not a bleeding heart boom, nor New Age. It’s the human reflections a very real, very grounded naturalist, writing about subjects on which she has thought long. I rate it up there with the best books of Bernd Heinrich (Mind of the Raven, Ravens in Winter, One Bird at a Time, The Geese of Beaver Bog, The Nesting Season, An Owl in the House). That’s saying a lot.Another thing: the book is lively. Montgomery is a masterful anecdotalist. Combine that with a scientific background and you have someone who can tell meaningful stories about living creatures in an interesting and engrossing way.P.S. Where else would I start? With Colin Tudge's brilliant book, The Birds.
I'm not sure I can say enough about this book. It's a lovely, lyrical tribute; an extraordinary and personal experience; an exceptionally well-written and -researched look into a creature we see daily, but rarely really SEE.A pleasure to read, full of information but never so technical that it bogs the reader down. The author chose her examples very well, and uses a combination of personal experience and scholarly research to beautiful effect. With each chapter, I kept thinking, "this is my favorite," until I got to the next one.If you have any interest at all, even just slight curiosity, I urge you to read this book. You may not love it as much as I do, but I believe you will enjoy it and get a lot back for the time spent.
I absolutely LOVE this book! Sy Montgomery is a wonderful writer with a great sense of humor and a huge heart. As I am also a vegetarian (but not a vegan), I love her sensibility about animals and respect for all living things. this book is in chapters, each chapter about a different species of bird (hawk, chicken, crow, pigeon, etc.) and they are all fascinating. I learn so much from her books in terms of language and understanding. I especially loved her book "The Soul of an Octopus" -- that one was so very special to me. it even made "Finding Dory" more fun since I now knew and understood more about that intelligent and wonderful creature. But I did learn to appreciate and let into my hear, crows. before, I really disliked them and even feared them, but when you realize how intelligent they are, it changes one's perception of them. I pick and choose my way through this book, chapter by chapter. I started with "hummingbirds" which is somewhere in the middle of the book. and I am finishing with 'chickens" which is the first chapter of the book.
To quote one of the people in Birdology: Adventures with a Pack of Hens, a Peck of Pigeons, Cantankerous Crows, Fierce Falcons, Hip Hop Parrots, Baby Hummingbirds, and One Murderously Big Living Dinosaur, Sy Montgomery's goal in this book is allow readers to "experiences the divinity of creation revealed in the birds." Montgomery profiles chickens, cassowaries, hummingbirds, hawks, pigeons, parrots, and crows, each with its unique personality quirks and traits. The end result is a delight to read, especially for avid birders or ornithologists.Birdology isn't a natural history of birds or observations of them in the wild. Ironically, most of the birds Montgomery meets live in captivity of some sort, from her chickens (the "Ladies") to hawks used for falconry (only the cassowaries were truly wild birds). In fact, each chapter seems to focus both on a different species of bird and a person who knows it well, such as a pigeon racer or hummingbird vet.I had mixed feelings about this. Obviously, birds are at their fullest in the wild, and that's where it would really be great to see them. At times, Birdology feels a bit too much like a book about "people and their birds." On the other hand, focusing on these particular birds allows Montgomery to really get to know them well and provide detailed observations. For example, after years of watching her hens in her backyard, she has noticed that certain personality traits are passed from one generation to the next - what we would call culture. Chicken culture - imagine that!While Montgomery loves her birds, she resists the temptation to anthropomorphize them. In fact, the best parts of Birdology discuss how birds are different from humans in ways we don't yet fully appreciate. Many birds still have strong instinctual impulses, from the gull chicks who incessantly peck at red objects to the overwhelming urge birds of prey have to hunt (known as "yarak"). She also suggests Alex, the famous African Grey Parrot, had trouble learning some colors because parrot vision recognizes a broader spectrum of colors than does our own.I do wish Montgomery had chosen more birds to profile, especially when the goal of her book is to give readers some sense of what it means to be a bird. Some of the stories of the more familiar birds have been told in different forms elsewhere. For example, the discussion of Alex the Parrot is also the subject of Alex & Me: How a Scientist and a Parrot Uncovered a Hidden World of Animal Intelligence--and Formed a Deep Bond in the Process. Others birds, such as pigeons and crows, are fascinating if not exotic. It would have been nice for example to have had a chapter on penguins, a very different type of bird, or the great wandering albatrosses (the subject of Carl Safina's wonderful Eye of the Albatross: Visions of Hope and Survival). There are so many types of birds - over 10,000 species - so it's impossible to cover them all, but I definitely felt there was room in the book for a few more.Reading Birdology, one gets the feeling that it would be really fun to just be Sy Montgomery. Some of the relationships she's had with birds are truly magical. She doesn't just describe the birds, but also tries to share how it felt emotionally to be in the presence of such wonderful animals. I thought it fascinating for example to hear her describe the hawk as master and the human handling it as the servant. For those of us who haven't been able to spend much time with birds, Birdology conveys that sense of wonder.Note: If you want a straight up natural history of birds, I might suggest David Attenborough's The Life of Birds or Colin Tudge's The Bird: A Natural History of Who Birds Are, Where They Came From, and How They Live. The latter is a bit dry, but comprehensive.
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