Praise for "The Thing with Feathers" "Mr. Strycker has the ability to write about the worlds of man and fowl without simplifying either.... He thinks like a biologist but writes like a poet, and one of the small pleasures of "The Thing With Feathers" is watching him distill empirical research into lyrical imagery.... Part the palm fronds behind his sentences, and you can almost see the British naturalist and broadcaster David Attenborough standing there in a pith helmet, smiling with amused approval at Mr. Strycker's off-center sensibility." - "Wall Street Journal" "Lovely, provocative..." - Robert Krulwich, NPR "Fascinating" - "Minneapolis Star-Tribune" ""The Things With Feathers" will encourage you to take a closer look at the natural world around you, and perhaps learn more not only about what you see but who you are." - "Seattle Times" "[Strycker] combines the latest in ornithological science with snippets of history and his own vast experience in the field to hatch a thoroughly entertaining examination of bird behavior... In Strycker's absorbing survey, we find out how much fun it is simply to watch them." - "Booklist," STARRED "[Strycker's] prose is difficult to stop reading." - "Publishers Weekly" "A delightful book with broad appeal." - "Kirkus Reviews" "A dazzling variety of avian subjects, including connections between birds and humans." - "Library Journal" "Noah Strycker explores the increasing likelihood that birds enjoy a vastly richer intellectual, emotional and even artistic life than we smug humans have ever suspected. Read this book." - Scott Weidensaul, author of "Living on the Wind" and "The First Frontier" "A thoughtful, engaging book, encompassing pigeon races, physics, vulture baiting, the Backstreet Boys, and a mathematical model applicable to both tennis rankings and chicken hierarchies--a work of dazzling range, nimbly written." - Brian Kimberling, author of "Sna

Noah Strycker has studied birds in some of the world's most extreme environments, and is associate editor of the American Birding Association's flagship magazine, "Birding." His previous book, " Among Penguins," describes a summer studying penguins in an isolated Antarctic field camp. Strycker writes, lectures, and lives near Eugene, Oregon, between field seasons.