From the New York Times bestselling author of the genius of birds a radical investigation into the bird way of being and the recent scientific research that is dramatically shifting our understanding of birds -- how they live and how they think. There is the mammal way and there is the bird way. but the bird way is much more than a unique pattern of brain Wiring and lately scientists have taken a new look at bird behaviors they have for years dismissed as anomalies or mysteries -- what they are