When cold weather approaches, we humans often have it easy: We can retreat to the shelter of central heating, or pile on more layers of clothing. The path to survival is a lot more complicated for birds, of course, and a new book delves into how they have adapted to face the challenges of cold and scarcity of food that winter represents. 

The book is “The Courage of Birds and the Often Surprising Ways They Survive Winter,” and one of its co-creators, David Sibley, is here today to talk about some of the impressive suite of tactics that different species of birds have developed to live to see another spring.

The book “The Courage of Birds” is just out, written by Pete Dunne, author of more than 20 books about birds, and illustrated by today’s guest, David Sibley, one of whose indispensable Sibley Guides I suspect may be on your bookshelf—or beside your binoculars. Their new book looks at the strategies North American birds have evolved to meet winter head on, and I’m so glad David could make time to tell us about some of those, as winter heads our way, too. 

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