She is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, including a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship in Nonfiction, a Bunting Fellowship, and a grant from the Alfred P. Ackerman’s articles and essays have appeared in National Geographic, The New York Times Magazine, Scientific American, and many other publications.

Her New York Times bestselling book, The Genius of Birds, has been translated into twenty-five languages and was named one of the best nonfiction books of 2016 by The Wall Street Journal, a Best Science Book by NPR’s Science Friday, and a Nature Book of the Year by The Sunday Times. Her other books include Birds by the Shore: Observing the Natural Life of the Atlantic Coast, Sex Sleep Eat Drink Dream: A Day in the Life of Your Body, and Chance in the House of Fate: A Natural History of Heredity. Her most recent book, What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World's Most Enigmatic Birds, explores recent findings on the biology, behavior, and conservation of owls. Her previous book, The Bird Way: A New Look at How Birds Talk, Work, Play, Parent, and Think, was a finalist for the PEN/E. At once personal yet scientific, richly informative and beautifully written,Ĭelebrates the triumphs of these surprising and fiercely intelligent creatures.īirds by the Shore: Observing the Natural Life of the Atlantic Coast.Jennifer Ackerman has been writing about science and nature for almost three decades. , acclaimed author Jennifer Ackerman explores their newly discovered brilliance and how it came about.Īs she travels around the world to the most cutting-edge frontiers of research, Ackerman not only tells the story of the recently uncovered genius of birds but also delves deeply into the latest findings about the bird brain itself that are shifting our view of what it means to be intelligent. in the House of Fate: A Natural History of Heredity and Notes from the Shore. According to revolutionary new research, some birds rival primates and even humans in their remarkable forms of intelligence. Books by Jennifer Ackerman The Genius of Birds 9781472114365 Corsair. 'A lyrical testimony to the wonders of avian intelligence.'Īn award-winning science writer tours the globe to reveal what makes birds capable of such extraordinary feats of mental prowessīirds are astonishingly intelligent creatures. For all the belittling of 'bird brains, ' Ackerman] shows them to be uniquely impressive machines.

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