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      Originally published in French as Habiter en oiseau © Actes Sud, France, 2019

      This English edition © Polity Press, 2022

      Epigraph from Nous sommes à la lisière by Caroline Lamarche © Gallimard 2019. Reprinted with kind permission of Gallimard.

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      ISBN-13: 978-1-5095-4728-9

      A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Names: Despret, Vinciane, author. | Morrison, Helen (Langauge translator), translator.

      Title: Living as a bird / Vinciane Despret ; translated by Helen Morrison.

      Other titles: Habiter en oiseau. English

      Description: Cambridge ; Medford, MA : Polity Press, [2021] | “Originally published in French as Habiter en oiseau © Actes Sud, France, 2019.” | Includes bibliographical references.

      Identifiers: LCCN 2021016407 (print) | LCCN 2021016408 (ebook) | ISBN 9781509547265 (hardback) | ISBN 9781509547272 (paperback) | ISBN 9781509547289 (epub)

      Subjects: LCSH: Birds--Territoriality. | Birds--Behavior. | Birds--Research. | Territoriality (Zoology)--Philosophy.

      Classification: LCC QL678 .D4713 2021 (print) | LCC QL678 (ebook) | DDC 598--dc23

      LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021016407 LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021016408

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