Overview
Ever since her daughter rescued a fledgling rook several years ago, Esther Woolfson has been fascinated with corvids, the bird group that includes crows, rooks, magpies, and ravens. Today, the rook, named Chicken, is a member of the Woolfson family along with a talking magpie named Spike, a baby crow named Ziki, a starling, a parrot, and others. From their elaborate bathing rituals to springtime broodiness and their tendency to stash food in the most unlikely places, these corvids share bonds with Woolfson that would have been considered rare, if not impossible, before.
Letting her experience speak for itself, Woolfson likens the fears and foibles of corvids to those of humans, taking into account the science of bird intelligence, evolution,song, and flight. She highlights their big personalities and capacity for affection: Chicken hates computers and machines, while she loves evening neck scratches on Woolfsonās knee. It is through this intimate lens that Woolfson invites us to reconsider what creatures can be humanās best friend.
āWoolfson shares a house with a host of freeāranging birds who cache bits of brie and raw squid in jean cuffs and under rugs, who excavate holes in the kitchen wall, and who, ahem, are decidedly not housebroken. But are these lifestyles really so peculiar? Should we not applaud them?ā āOrion Magazine
āWhat makes Woolfsonās memoir such enjoyable reading (even for the nonābirdobsessed) is that she is funny and knows itās rather crazy to have a magpie, crow, starling or, more significantly, a rook named āChickenā running about your house.ā āBookslut
This book title, Corvus (A Life with Birds), ISBN: 9781582435831, by Esther Woolfson, published by Catapult (March 30, 2010) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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