Pablo Picasso once complained, "Everyone wants to understand painting. Why is there no attempt to understand the song of birds?" New Scientist polymath Colin Tudge meets that challenge and much more in this quite logical follow-up to his popular The Tree. His urge to understand is apparently insatiable; he is deeply intrigued by the color-coded eating habits of peacocks, the sex life of seabirds, and the nesting habits of kiwis and puffins. With Aesop, Tudge knows that it is not just fine feathers that make fine birds; pigeons seem to fascinate him as much as the brightly colored leafbirds of India and the Philippines. The Bird will make you rethink everything you thought you knew about birds and somehow leave you even more delighted.