Crow Planet, by Lyanda Lynn Haupt

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Crow Planet: Essential Wisdom from the Urban Wilderness

by Lyanda Lynn Haupt

(NOTE: To experience and learn Nature Mentoring in person with the staff of Wilderness Awareness School, join us at our Coyote Mentoring workshops or Art of Mentoring workshops).

“Crow Planet: Essential Wisdom from the Urban Wilderness by Lyanda Lynn Haupt (Little, Brown). Haupt, a Seattle naturalist and crow devotee, delights in and discusses these clever birds whose increasing numbers - more than 31 million in the United States - signal massive habitat destruction and loss of biodiversity, which are problems caused by humans that we must begin to confront.”

-Irene Wanner, Seattle Times, Best Books of 2009

“With her sensitivity, careful eye and gift for language, Haupt tells her tale beautifully, using crow study to get at a range of ever-deepening concerns about nature and our place within it, immersing us in a heady hybrid of science, history, how-to and memoir.”

-Erika Schickel, Los Angeles Times, July 26, 2009

“Haupt (Rare Encounters with Ordinary Birds) delivers a delightful meditation on our role in the natural world. By focusing on the proliferation of the American crow, she provides a rich context for exploring the relationship between humans and nature.”

-Library Journal, starred review

“In a lyrical narrative that blends science and conscience, Haupt mourns the encroachments of urbanization, but cherishes the wildness that survives.”

-Liesl Schillinger, New York Times Sunday Book Review, August 30, 2009

Lyanda Lynn Haupt is an author, speaker and naturalist based in Seattle.

Lyanda’s first book, Rare Encounters with Ordinary Birds (Sasquatch, 2001), explores the relationship between humans, birds, and ecological understanding, and is a winner of the 2002 Washington State Book Award. Her second book, Pilgrim on the Great Bird Continent: The Importance of Everything and Other Lessons from Darwin’s Lost Notebooks, was published by Little, Brown to positive reviews nationwide, and broad mentions during the celebration of Darwin’s 200th birthday. Her new book, from Little, Brown, Crow Planet: Essential Wisdom from the Urban Wilderness, was released nationally in July 2009.

Lyanda has created and directed educational programs for Seattle Audubon, worked in raptor rehabilitation in Vermont, and as a seabird researcher for the Fish and Wildlife Service in the remote tropical Pacific. Her writing has appeared in Image, Open Spaces, Wild Earth, Conservation Biology Journal, Birdwatcher’s Digest, and the Prairie Naturalist.