Haystack Book Festival: “What It’s Like to be a Bird” with David Allen Sibley

Date: 10/03/2021
Time: 1:00 pm-2:00 pm

Haystack Book Festival presents David Allen Sibley, author of the Sibley Guides Series and numerous other publications including What It’s Like to Be A Bird: From Flying to Nesting, Eating to Singing – What Birds Are Doing and Why. In this virtual presentation, Sibley will excite and inspire you by providing a new and deeper understanding of what common, mostly backyard, birds are doing—and why. “Can birds smell?”; “Is this the same cardinal that was at my feeder last year?”; “Do robins ‘hear’ worms?”

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Sibley is the author and illustrator of the series of successful guides to nature that bear his name, including The Sibley Guide to Birds. He has contributed to Smithsonian, Science, The Wilson Journal of Ornithology, Birding, Birdwatching, and North American Birds, and to The New York Times. He is the recipient of the Roger Tory Peterson Award for Lifetime Achievement from the American Birding Association and the Linnaean Society of New York’s Eisenmann Medal. In What It’s Like to Be a Bird, David Sibley answers the most frequently asked questions about the birds we see most often. This special, large-format volume is geared as much to nonbirders as it is to the out- and-out obsessed, covering more than two hundred species and including more than 330 new illustrations by the author. While its focus is on familiar backyard birds—blue jays, nuthatches, chickadees—it also examines certain species that can be easily observed, such as the seashore-dwelling Atlantic puffin. Sibley’s exacting artwork and wide-ranging expertise bring observed behaviors vividly to life. (For most species, the primary illustration is reproduced life-sized.) And while the text is aimed at adults— including fascinating new scientific research on the myriad ways birds have adapted to environmental changes—it is nontechnical, making it the perfect occasion for parents and grandparents to share their love of birds with young children, who will delight in the big, full-color illustrations of birds in action.