#crow planet

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🐦‍⬛ Crow Planet: Essential Wisdom from the Urban Wilderness by Lyanda Lynn Haupt

Rating: 🌟🌟🌟/5

This book illuminates the lives of crows as multifaceted beings who play, care for their sick, eat, and live. In the author’s journey they bring up the ultimate question of our place in the urban-wild landscape.

When I started this book a year ago, I was initially put off by the author saying that she wrote this book more out of obligation to her publisher than her own desire to do it. At first I felt like this was a betrayal, because why should I read a book the author didn’t want to write?

But as I read it, I realized the author does have strong feelings for crows and it might’ve just been the matter of fact way she writes that put me off to reading it. I paused for a year due to the sentiment, but I came back to finish the book and found that I quite enjoyed her stories, her philosophy, and her thoughts on our place in this earth. I really loved how she brought up interconnectedness and how we’re ultimately all in this together. I’d still recommend this book if you enjoy urban nature.

[wilderbotanica]

I thought this would be a fitting autumn read ✨

[godzilla-reads]

To hatch a crow, a black rainbow

Bent in emptiness

over emptiness

But flying

—Ted Hughes, Crow: From the Life and Songs of the Crow

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“We are human in good part because of the way we affiliate with other organisms. They are the matrix in which the human mind originated and is permanently rooted, and they offer the challenge and freedom innately sought. To the extent that each person can feel like a naturalist, the old excitement of the untrammeled world will be regained.”

—E.O. Wilson

[godzilla-reads]

@wistfulwillowturtle This is the newest crow book I’ve started to read. After finishing the Tony Angell book, I really wanted to see more books on crows, so I found this one on a reading list.

“Crow Planet: Essential Wisdom from the Urban Wilderness” by Lyanda Lynn Haupt

[godzilla-reads]

🐦‍⬛ One of my favorite birds is the common crow. I’ve grown up in the city my whole life and they’re very prevalent in this urban setting. When I was in high school I used to feed them in winter and wound up with a flock of almost 20 of them in my yard at the old house.

After reading Tony Angell’s book on corvids, I wanted to search out some more books specifically on crows and found Lyanda Lynn Haupt’s book “Crow Planet: Essential Wisdom from the Urban Wilderness”, so that’s what I’ll be reading!

[godzilla-reads]

Reading “Crow Planet” is fun because I looooooove crows, but the author starts out by being disinterested in them. Her journey with crows is gradual and picks up, showing us that there is more than meets the eye with these “common” corvids.

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on a bare branch a crow is perched - autumn evening

Bashō