All About Animals discussion

I would like to get recommendations for more books about birds. I loved That Quail Robert years ago.

That Quail, Robert

Wesley the Owl: The Remarkable Love Story of an Owl and His Girl

You are welcome to recommend them in the section to read each month then the group will vote on it to read.

Alice, have you read Bob Tarte's books "Enslaved by Ducks" and "Fowl Weather"?
"Alex and Me" by Irene Pepperberg is also very good.

Cayr wrote: "Alice, have you read Bob Tarte's books "Enslaved by Ducks" and "Fowl Weather"?
"Alex and Me" by Irene Pepperberg is also very good."

I really want to read "Alex and Me"

"Wesley the Owl" is one of he best bird books I've ever read. I would also recommend Sy Montgomery's "Birdology." Each chapter focuses on a different bird that she encounters on her travels, from an Australian cassowary to a YouTube-sensation cockatoo that loves to dance to music. Her chapter on falconry is the most harrowing account of the hobby that I've ever read. I had no idea how dangerous it could be to owner and bird alike. Fascinating book.

I'm searching for a book I read a couple of years ago that featured a group of parrots that escaped a testing facility and lived on the streets. It was very funny but I can't remember the title. Anyone know this book.

Richard wrote: "I'm searching for a book I read a couple of years ago that featured a group of parrots that escaped a testing facility"

There's a book called "The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill" about a flock of feral parrots in San Francisco, but they didn't escape from a testing facility and the book isn't humorous. So, that's probably the wrong book. But it's a fabulous book!

Bob wrote: "Richard wrote: "I'm searching for a book I read a couple of years ago that featured a group of parrots that escaped a testing facility"

There's a book called "The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill" a..."

It was a great documentary, too!

Richard wrote: "I'm searching for a book I read a couple of years ago that featured a group of parrots that escaped a testing facility and lived on the streets. It was very funny but I can't remember the title. An..."

Sorry I never heard of it.

Cayr wrote: "Alice, have you read Bob Tarte's books "Enslaved by Ducks" and "Fowl Weather"?
"Alex and Me" by Irene Pepperberg is also very good."

Thanks, I need to find these.

Richard wrote: "I'm searching for a book I read a couple of years ago that featured a group of parrots that escaped a testing facility and lived on the streets. It was very funny but I can't remember the title. An..."

When I lived in FL there was a wild parakeet that lived with a group of wild birds. I was always trying to catch it.

Here in CO I feed magpies. I did a painting of one. They are so smart. This has been such a bad spring that we now have 4 robins, several mountain bluebirds, numerous chickadees, a Clark's nutcracker!, Evening Grosbecks and a few others. It has been a desperate time for them here.

I hope spring comes soon so they can survive.

Anyone read these bird stories

The Ancient Solitary Reign
The Lost Domain
both by Martin Hocke.

Tyto the Owl by Glyn Frewer

The Phasian Bird
The Scandaroon
both by Henry Williamson.

A Kestrel for a Knave (Kes) by Barry Hines.

In the Shadow of the Falcon by Ewan Clarckson.

There are a number of others.

Lastwolf, I haven't had the pleasure of reading any of the ones you listed but I will be looking them up. Thanks for the list.