Uncovering the Cognitive Abilities of Corvids: A Study of Crows, Ravens, Magpies, and Jays

tstarr: Great book, fast delivery!

United States on Sep 20, 2023

Leah: Great books with interesting facts.

United States on Aug 21, 2023

Anon: The anecdotes and information made this a perfect birthday present

Canada on Jun 26, 2023

Paula: full of nice, full page photographs, but I expected a little more informative reading

United States on Apr 14, 2023

MariaReina18: Entertaining, informative, beautiful photography and a very decent price. I took this book out of the library several times and finally just bought it for keeps.

United States on Mar 11, 2023

Beate Beatrise Ozolina: My granddaughter very happy about it

United Kingdom on Mar 05, 2023

Teresa Peters: Fantastic book! A lot of useful information about Corvids!

Canada on Sep 13, 2022

Wendy Bidwell: purchased for my nephew but looks to be a very interesting informative book with lots of colour photos that I think he will love and find useful for his studies

United Kingdom on Jun 26, 2022

markr: This is a really lovely book, full of beautiful colour photographs of Corvids: Crows, Ravens, Magpies, Jays, and Nutcrackers. The text itself is fascinating looking at the remarkable intelligence of these birds which demonstrate the ability to welcome and greet individual people, to devise strategies for finding, caching and retrieving food, creating and using tools, and much more.

Corvids are intelligent birds - by ratio of brain size to body size they are similar to humans, but with memory for location that surpasses our own. The book gives numerous interesting examples of what Corvids have been seen to be able to do and includes various corvid related quotations and folk tales - all of which are fascinating.

I love watching the magpies, crows and ravens in our garden, and this rather wonderful book has taught me a lot more about them.

The book itself is beautifully produced with glossy paper and is enjoyable to leaf through as well as to read from cover to cover.

United Kingdom on Dec 14, 2021

Vilnis Neilands: This is a very nice large format glossy coffee table type book with perhaps half of it’s pages displaying impressive and unique photographs of various members of the Corvid family of birds going about their daily business of life. This is more a work of art and joy than a scholarly research tome.

The excellent photographs are accompanied by equally compelling text of the authors studies and views particularly as relates to the perplexing issue of whether these birds have intelligence and the ability to think. For the layperson and scientist alike the observations seem compelling. But the conundrum is that they have not been scientifically verified. Accepting the observations intuitively would roil present narratives of thought and consciousness so profoundly that it is a step that is being approached very slowly, deliberatively, and verifiably. As it should.

But that does not mean that those outside the higher reaches of academia cannot point out what seems to be the obvious and drive the effort towards understanding and clarity, as does this author. And she does so not only in words but glorious photographs so compellingly, that for most it becomes very obvious....

United States on Sep 19, 2015