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A Most Remarkable Creature
A Most Remarkable Creature: The Hidden Life and Epic Journey of the World's Smartest Birds of Prey | Jonathan Meiburg
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�A fascinating, entertaining, and totally engrossing story.��David Sibley, author of What It's Like to Be a Bird �Utterly captivating and beautifully written, this book is a hugely entertaining and enlightening exploration of a bird (…more)
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Addison_Reads
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I'll admit that I'm not really into birds, but I love a good science/nature read. Meiburg has done a wonderful job with this book and I found myself thoroughly enjoying all the fantastic information that was presented about a bird I knew very little about, caracaras.

I think I spent as much time looking up photos online of these marvelous creatures as I did reading the book. 😀

Well researched, well written, and just a delight to read.

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JulietteReadsALot
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3/5 Non-fiction book club pick.
From reading this book, Jonathan Meiburg's passion and interest for birds are clear. It's a very informative book, but I'm perplexed about the organization of the book. Sometimes, it felt like the book was too dispersed, stirring away from the striated caracaras, affecting the rhythm and flow of the book.

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Lindy
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Before listening to this audiobook, I knew nothing about caracaras, which are falcons found in South America. They are remarkable creatures, as the title claims: highly intelligent, sociable and inquisitive. The author does a deep dive into everything about them and the entire book is riveting! #ScienceNerd

Soubhiville I loved this book! I picked this up after watching a pair of crested Cara Caras that live/ hunt in my central Texas area. I see them (or at least one of them) at least once a week while out walking. I got to watch one eating a rabbit this spring. It‘s a pretty amazing and massive bird! 3y
Lindy @Soubhiville I‘m envious that you have seen these birds. It seems like they might become more common in North America, living off roadkill along the highways. 3y
Soubhiville @Lindy From what I‘ve read it seems their territory is just creeping into the Southern US as climate change warms our temperatures. Not long ago it would have been highly unusual to see them here at all, let alone clearly living here. 3y
Lindy @Soubhiville Exactly. And other species are moving northward as well. I like what Jonathan Meiberg has to say about discovery: that there‘s so much about our world that we don‘t yet know, even without taking current changes into account. 3y
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Lindy
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Social wasps share a skill that exceeds the ability of nearly every mammal on earth: they‘re master builders. Most social wasps fashion their homes from a papier-mâché of chewed-up wood fibres mixed with their own saliva, and each species builds in their own style.

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Lindy
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Peregrines have the fastest visual processing speed measured in any animal and their eyes are so sharp that they could read the headline of a newspaper from a mile away. A human with eyes in the same proportion to its skull as a peregrine would have eyes that measure three inches across and weigh four pounds each.

LeahBergen 🤣🤣 I love it! 3y
Leftcoastzen My , what big eyes you have!😄 3y
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Lindy @Leftcoastzen Just call me BB Wolf 😁 3y
Ruthiella 😂😂😂 3y
Reggie Lol 3y
Cathythoughts Brilliant! Lindy 😁 (edited) 3y
batsy 😆😆 3y
Lindy @Reggie @Ruthiella @Cathythoughts @batsy 👀Happy to make you smile 😊 3y
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The trouble with the past is that it keeps changing. The asteroid‘s effects on the history of life were so sudden and pervasive that it‘s easy to forget we didn‘t even know about it until very recently.
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Lindy
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No audiowalking today, but I got plenty of exercise audioshovelling snow.

TheLudicReader Oh no. 3y
Lindy @TheLudicReader Well, it‘s winter, so it‘s expected. Also, snow is preferable to the heavy rain they are having in BC 3y
TheLudicReader @Lindy agreed about the awful weather in BC, I just hate snow. We haven‘t had any on the East Coast yet. 3y
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LeahBergen No snow down here in Calgary yet! 3y
Lindy @LeahBergen 👍Sunshine and -13 in Edmonton at the moment 😊 3y
Cathythoughts Oh I‘d love snow .. it‘s mid November & hasn‘t been cold enough for a fire here yet 🙄…. I‘m going to light one anyway 3y
Lindy @Cathythoughts Edmonton‘s year round weather suits fires. We‘ve been thankful for our clay outdoor fireplace during the pandemic because it has allowed us to stay warm while safely visiting with friends. There‘s something comforting about a little fire even when it isn‘t cold out. 3y
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Lindy
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So many interesting facts about birds in this book, including the world‘s smallest raptor, the black-thighed falconet, which is about the size of a sparrow.
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Leftcoastzen They are cute! Didn‘t know about these tiny guys! 3y
Ruthiella What do they eat? 3y
Lindy @Ruthiella They eat small birds and insects 3y
Lindy @Leftcoastzen I hadn‘t heard of them before either 3y
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SamAnne Great cover. 4y
DivineDiana I want to read this! 4y
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Tamra
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You get way more than just a book about caracaras, a curious, intelligent, & social bird of prey. It‘s a rambly type of book in scope, but Meiburg fills it with all kinds of interesting observations about nature and even people. I won‘t soon forget the dinner plate size spider on the face & in the beard of a fellow scientist. 😅

Suet624 Gah!!! 4y
Tamra @Suet624 it was voluntary too! 4y
Soubhiville I‘m just starting this and I‘m so excited! There are a pair of Cara Caras I see fairly regularly around my neighborhood, and I can‘t wait to learn more about them! They‘re huge and so striking. 4y
Tamra @Soubhiville then I think you‘ll definitely like it! How fun to have a live example. 4y
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