In the genius of birds acclaimed author jennifer ackerman explores the newly discovered brilliance of birds and how it came about as she travels around the world to the most cutting edge frontiers of research the distant laboratories of barbados and new caledonia the great tit communities of the united kingdom and the bowerbird habitats of australia the ravaged mid atlantic coast after hurricane sandy and the warming mountains of central virginia and the western states ackerman not . In the genius of birds acclaimed author jennifer ackerman explores the newly discovered brilliance of birds and how it came about as she travels around the world to the most cutting edge frontiers of research the distant laboratories of barbados and new caledonia the great tit communities of the united kingdom and the bowerbird habitats of australia the ravaged mid atlantic coast after hurricane sandy and the warming mountains of central virginia and the western states ackerman not . In the genius of birds acclaimed author jennifer ackerman explores the newly discovered brilliance of birds and how it came about as she travels around the world to the most cutting edge frontiers of research the distant laboratories of barbados and new caledonia the great tit communities of the united kingdom and the bowerbird habitats of australia the ravaged mid atlantic coast after hurricane sandy and the warming mountains of central virginia and the western states ackerman not . The genius of birds now translated into a german version under the title genies der lufte finally does away with the prevalent view of birds as pretty colourful automatons who are prurely instinct driven and have no capacity for problem solving or innovation it has become common knowledge that corvids and psittacines are on the level of a four year old human child but passerines are usually underestimated as to their abilities in a lively never technical account which is accessible