Effin' Birds: A Field Guide to Identification by Aaron Reynolds (English) Hardco

Description: Effin' Birds by Aaron Reynolds A compact, comprehensive, and very silly field guide featuring more than 200 of the rudest birds on Earth, this edition is crammed full of classic, monochrome plumage art paired with the delightful but dirty aphorisms (think "Im going to need more booze to deal with this week") that made the Effin Birds Twitter feed a household name. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description A compact, comprehensive, and very silly field guide featuring more than 200 of the rudest birds on earth—from the creator of the Webby Award–winning hit Instagram account!Effin Birds is the most eagerly anticipated new volume in the grand and noble profession of nature writing and bird identification. Sitting proudly alongside Sibley, Kaufman, and Peterson, this book contains more than 150 pages crammed full of classic, monochrome plumage art paired with the delightful but dirty aphorisms (think "Im going to need more booze to deal with this week") that made the Effin Birds feed a household name. Also included in its full, Technicolor glory is John James Audubons most beautiful work matched with modern life advice. Including never-before-seen birds, insults, and field notes, this guide is a must-have for any effin fan or birder. Author Biography Aaron Reynolds is a Webby Award–winning humorist, aprofessional speaker, and the man behind the Effin Birds and Swear Trek social media accounts. When hes not on Twitter, you can find him producing a series of podcasts and at ComicCons dressed as George Lucas. He has been a baseball writer, a fine art printer, and a mall Santa Claus photographer. Aaron was raised in Mississauga, Canada, a suburb where they cut down all the trees and named the streets after them. He currently splits his time between Toronto and Ottawa. Excerpt from Book Introduction Have you ever listened to the melodic chirping of birds and wondered what they were trying to communicate? Some of the worlds most brilliant scientists have spent decades studying birdsong to gain an understanding of birds: their society, their needs, their hopes and dreams. Are birds gripped by the paralysing fear that theyll fail to provide for their families? Do they aspire to meaningful careers? Are they frustrated at the pace of social progress in the world? It turns out that these were the feelings of the scientists and not the birds at all. Advances in machine learning over the past ten years have allowed for detailed scenario analysis of birds and their songs, and multiple computer-driven studies* that compiled years worth of audio and video recordings came to an astonishing conclusion: most of the time, birds are just saying, "F**k off." Sometimes theyre saying f**k off to predators. Sometimes to other birds. In the studies, scientists found that the birds were disproportionately saying f**k off to the scientists studying them, which led to some sober re-examination of their birdhandling protocols. This astonishing breakthrough has led to re-evaluations of historic recordings, including one analysis that showed US President Lyndon B. Johnsons pet lovebirds telling British Prime Minister Harold Wilson to "f**k off and keep f**king off until your feet get wet" during a White House visit, and another in which Challenger the Bald Eagle told Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig to "find a newer and more interesting way to f**k off" at the 1998 World Series. Most embarrassingly, computer analysis shows that the pigeons in the "Feed the Birds" scene of Mary Poppins are actually saying, "Just give us the f**king bread before we die of old age." While it would prove impossible to create a definitive listing of every way birds say f**k off, this book is an attempt to catalogue some of the most common, and to place them into broader societal context, along with identifying bird behaviours and characteristics. And while very few people will have access to the advanced computational power needed to understand birdsong precisely, the hope is that the knowledge contained in this book will allow you to look directly into a birds eyes and understand it when it tells you to f**k off with that s**t. * I made these up because this book is fake--but keep that as a secret between you and me and the handful of other nerds who read footnotes. Details ISBN1984856286 Author Aaron Reynolds Short Title EFFIN BIRDS Pages 208 Language English ISBN-10 1984856286 ISBN-13 9781984856289 Format Hardcover DEWEY 598 Year 2019 Publication Date 2019-10-15 Imprint Ten Speed Press Country of Publication United States AU Release Date 2019-10-15 NZ Release Date 2019-10-15 US Release Date 2019-10-15 UK Release Date 2019-10-15 Publisher Potter/Ten Speed/Harmony/Rodale Subtitle A Field Guide to Identification Illustrations 150 ILLUSTRATIONS Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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