Crow Planet : : Essential Wisdom From the Urban Wilderness

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Call Number: 598.864 Ha, Adult Book / Nonfiction / Science & Nature / General / Haupt, Lyanda Lynn
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Traverwood Branch

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Crows and Kairos : an invocation -- Getting up : a reluctant crow watcher -- Preparing : a crash course for the urban naturalist -- Reading : crow stories and animal alphabets -- Walking : the wildness of home -- Dwelling : how we nest -- Helping : an uncertain grace -- Seeing : the monk, the professor, and the sense of wonder -- Coexisting : finding our place in the zoöpolis -- Dying : crows of death and life -- Flying : wings, reality, hope.

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Urban Nature submitted by sdunav on July 5, 2016, 7:11pm A wonderful, moving, intelligent nonfiction book about nature, cities, modern life, and (almost incidentally) crows

Some interesting trivia: there are more crows in the world than ever before (they are one of those species like coyotes that benefit from urban sprawl and more garbage). They are smart, social creatures who remember individuals and specific places very well. They are omnivorous and will kill and eat small animals, baby birds of other species, bugs, etc. in addition to scavenged food (more roadkill = good for crows).

The author lives in Seattle, so if you're on the NW Coast and at all interested in birds (and note that I'm not in either of these categories, and yet loved this book a huge amount) you might also like it on that account.

It also features a lot of interesting insights on walking, Thoreau, birdwatching and feeding, the relationship of science and scientists to amateurs and the public in general, natural history, death and its religious significance, and Louis Agassiz.