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AllDebooks
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#Naturalitsy
Our discussion thread for February's #buddyread

🐦‍⬛ Did you like the author's writing style?
🦃 Did you have a favourite chapter/bird?
🐦 Did that differ from the one you expected to like most? If so, why?
📚 Would you recommend this author or try his other books?

All welcome to join in. Please let me know if you wish to be added/removed from the taglist.

Next up - https://litsy.com/p/SnJ6bm9Kb1dH

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Bookwormjillk I'm still trying to track this one and the next one down but please keep me tagged. Eventually some day I will catch up. 2w
AllDebooks @Bookwormjillk The audiobook of 10 birds is on Everand, if you have it. 2w
Bookwormjillk @AllDebooks I do, but for some reason they tell me it's not available every month and to check back next month. 2w
AllDebooks It's included in the Spotify premium package jere in UK. Not sure about States. 2w
Chelsea.Poole I listened to about half of this. I gave up because I found the information about each bird pretty basic and nothing new to me. 2w
Bookwormjillk @AllDebooks I gave in and changed my Everand subscription so I can access this and a few others. Hoping to get to it soon! 2w
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TheKidUpstairs
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Bailedbailed

Love the idea, but it's just not working for me in execution. Moss gives far too broad an overview of each bird to engage me as a reader. If you have even the most basic knowledge of any of these birds, you are likely not going to learn anything new here. For me, this would have been more effective if it delved into one specific thing/story about each bird (kind of like Eight Bears did), rather than try to do a complete overview in 30-40 pages.

TheKidUpstairs Also, stating that something in the natural world "still occurs" and using a study from 1946 as your evidence is not convincing. That's 80 long years of change! 1mo
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Jess861
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Here are my February #BookSpin and #DoubleSpin picks. It's been a while since I read a non-fiction book so I'm going with What An Owl Knows for brown on the cover. Definitely had to look through some book covers to find one with brown on it - funny enough both from last month had brown. I am reading Indian Horse for OhCanada anyways and it has green on the cover.

@TheAromaofBooks

TheAromaofBooks Yay!! Enjoy!! 1mo
BookNAround Indian Horse is so good! 1mo
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DebinHawaii
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#25Alive!

A #FaveNewSong (okay newish) of mine is Birds of a Feather by Billie Eilish so I‘m pairing it with the tagged book, the #Naturalitsy buddy read selection for February. 🦅 🦜🦩🦤🦢🐓

https://open.spotify.com/track/6dOtVTDdiauQNBQEDOtlAB?si=qkhawyNJTDu1S4iz0vFpxg

AllDebooks That is a great song. 🎵 Thanks for the tag. 1mo
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Great song!! 🎵 1mo
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LitsyEvents
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Repost for @AllDebooks

#NaturaLitsy

Our February #buddyread is Ten Birds That Changed the World by Stephen Moss. This book examines the relationship between humans and birds, using ten key species from all seven continents to tell this natural history.

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Original post - https://www.litsy.com/web/post/2831784

AllDebooks Thank you for the share x 2mo
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AllDebooks
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#NaturaLitsy

Our February #buddyread is Ten Birds That Changed the World by Stephen Moss. This book examines the relationship between humans and birds, using ten key species from all seven continents to tell this natural history.

All welcome to join us. Please let me know if you wish to be added/removed from the taglist.

@LitsyEvents

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psalva
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I love finding watermarks! I hauled this book recently and, beyond the well-written descriptions and plates which will be an excellent birding resource, I was thrilled to find this watermark for Warren‘s Olde Style. A quick search uncovers that this was a line from S.D. Warren Company, Boston. The official description, taken from an advertising digest I found online is, “a watermarked antique finish for type and line illustration.” Cool!

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arlenefinnigan
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Aw. RIP Tony Soper.

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LibraryCin
The Genius of Birds | Jennifer Ackerman
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Mehso-so

There are things that birds know or can figure out that is comparable to humans and/or other primates. They are smart. Most of us know how smart corvids are, but other birds are smart, too, in different ways, including sparrows, pigeons… some birds that aren‘t “traditionally” thought of as smart. Cont in comments...

LibraryCin Some of the things discussed in the book include songs, migration, tools, aesthetically—pleasing displays, etc. I listened to the audio, but I bet I would have taken in more had I actually read it in print or via ebook 6mo
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