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ABBEY'S BOOKSELLER PICK ----- Darryl Jones became an urban ecologist almost without design. As a young student biologist his observations on bush turkeys contradicted the recognised expert on their behaviour, and over his lifetime studying birds he has learnt one thing - always question assumptions. This delightful book follows his life through birds, and they continually teach him how little we really know about them - but this hasn't stopped him in his own work, or in encouraging students to go off and find out more! Told in a series of chapters about common birds in particular localities, this is at times laugh-out-loud (I had tears streaming down my face at the great water-cannon-ibis-marking incident!) It is also enlightening, along with being entertaining and easy to read, and I highly recommend this to anyone who has interacted with a neighbourhood bird (and isn't that everyone?!) Lindy
Darryl Jones, author of Feeding the Birds at Your Table, reveals the not-so-secret lives of the most common birds that share our towns and cities.
ABBEY'S BOOKSELLER PICK ----- Darryl Jones became an urban ecologist almost without design. As a young student biologist his observations on bush turkeys contradicted the recognised expert on their behaviour, and over his lifetime studying birds he has learnt one thing - always question assumptions. This delightful book follows his life through birds, and they continually teach him how little we really know about them - but this hasn't stopped him in his own work, or in encouraging students to go off and find out more! Told in a series of chapters about common birds in particular localities, this is at times laugh-out-loud (I had tears streaming down my face at the great water-cannon-ibis-marking incident!) It is also enlightening, along with being entertaining and easy to read, and I highly recommend this to anyone who has interacted with a neighbourhood bird (and isn't that everyone?!) Lindy
