Recs if you like Bird Brains: The Intelligence of Crows, Ravens, Magpies, and Jays...

🦅🦜🦢🐧🦉🦩🐦‍⬛ Books about ✨BIRDS!!!✨ beautiful, strange, silly, magical creatures.

Nonfiction books exploring the natural world and our “place in the family of things” (Mary Oliver, Wild Geese). 🐦‍⬛🦋🌱🪸🦊🪷🪼🍄

Read these books first! Take a deep dive into the wonderful ecosystems that have evolved over millions of years and realise that humans are not as unique as we like to think.

It’s much cheaper than a degree (coming from a conservation and ecology major) 🤪

Cross-genre books on birds and their friends or foes

Philosopher Rene Descartes declared that non-human animals were nothing more than soulless machines who functioned as automata. Which is to say, Descartes was an idiot and this nonfiction proves it. Explorations of animal cognition, intelligence, emotions, and consciousness. So far I've only added ones that I've read or are on my upcoming TBR, but suggestions are also welcome.