'An overview of what biologists have learned about the mechanisms underlying a wide variety of avian behaviors, ranging from feeding, sex, and migration to complex cognition and sociality'--

Georg F. Striedter is Professor of Neurobiology and Behavior at the University of California, Irvine. His books include Principles of Brain Evolution, Brains Through Time: A Natural History of Vertebrates, and Model Systems in Biology (MIT Press).Andrew N. Iwaniuk is Professor at the University of Lethbridge. He has published more than 100 research articles, most of which are on bird brains and behavior.