Birdology: Adventures with a Pack of Hens, a Peck of Pigeons, Cantankerous Crows, Fierce Falcons, Hip Hop Parrots, Baby Hummingbirds, and One Murderously Big Living Dinosaur

by Sy Montgomery

In China, it was widely believed that storks were the vehicle for the dead (interestingly, this tradition is reversed in the European tradition, showing storks bringing human babies into the world from the sky).