More from KUOW Animals Noah Strycker: We Learn About Ourselves Through Bird Behavior KUOW Published March 17, 2014 at 1:46 PM AKDT Twitter LinkedIn Email Listen • 12:05 1 of 2 Noah Strycker's book, “The Thing With Feathers: The Surprising Lives of Birds and What They Reveal about Being Human.” 2 of 2 Hummingbirds Flickr Photo/Coconino National Forest (CC BY-NC-ND) Steve Scher talks with Noah Strycker about his book, “The Thing With Feathers: The Surprising Lives of Birds and What They Reveal about Being Human.”