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How To Make Friends With Wild Birds: An introduction to understanding, communicating with, and befriending the birds who live around us
Be a Bird Whisperer in yo
u
r own back yard!
Can we make friends with the birds? Can we communicate with them ? Can we learn to understand them? Can they learn to understand us?
B irds are intelligent and emotional beings. A s different as we look from them, birds can perceive us as fellow creatures with whom they can communicate . The better we understand them, the better we can comm u nicate with them . As with any friend! So this book helps explain what it’s like to be a bird. How birds think and feel. How the world looks to them. A nd how we a ppear through their eyes.
This book can help both young people and adults to learn the art of birdfriending. Get birds to trust you, come to you, and see you as their friend. Learn to e avesdrop on their conversations . Get to know individual birds and their unique personalities.
B eing in nature is good for our mental health , and birds bring nature right to us. Birds bring the wild into our world, no matter where we live. Even someone without a yard can make friends with birds . Birds are everywhere, and birds who live in a city or town are already used to seeing humans as part of their world . Those birds are the ones who are most adaptable and open to new ideas – even, perhaps, to the idea of being friends with a human .
Birds invite us to look up from our screens, to join them out in the sunshine, and to re discover the wonder of real life. Our birdfriends can help us re connect with nature — and with our own deep selves.
To read excerpts from the book, or for more information, go to www.birdfriender.net.
Can we make friends with the birds? Can we communicate with them ? Can we learn to understand them? Can they learn to understand us?
B irds are intelligent and emotional beings. A s different as we look from them, birds can perceive us as fellow creatures with whom they can communicate . The better we understand them, the better we can comm u nicate with them . As with any friend! So this book helps explain what it’s like to be a bird. How birds think and feel. How the world looks to them. A nd how we a ppear through their eyes.
This book can help both young people and adults to learn the art of birdfriending. Get birds to trust you, come to you, and see you as their friend. Learn to e avesdrop on their conversations . Get to know individual birds and their unique personalities.
B eing in nature is good for our mental health , and birds bring nature right to us. Birds bring the wild into our world, no matter where we live. Even someone without a yard can make friends with birds . Birds are everywhere, and birds who live in a city or town are already used to seeing humans as part of their world . Those birds are the ones who are most adaptable and open to new ideas – even, perhaps, to the idea of being friends with a human .
Birds invite us to look up from our screens, to join them out in the sunshine, and to re discover the wonder of real life. Our birdfriends can help us re connect with nature — and with our own deep selves.
To read excerpts from the book, or for more information, go to www.birdfriender.net.
294 pages, Kindle Edition
Published February 5, 2023
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January 28, 2026
After reading the endless praise this book received, inspired by my recent dive back into birdwatching (and birdfriending), I wanted to give this book a shot. For me, it fell short - and at 9.99USD for an ebook that is horribly formatted on the Kindle, it definitely wasn’t worth it. I found the book exceptionally repetitive. I also can tell that HighPine doesn’t have children, because I wish I could just sit in my backyard all day and watch birds! It seems it might be impossible to have any birdfriending results unless you have 12 hours a day to spend in silence, watching them. It also should be mentioned that HighPine is an American author, so she speaks to a North American birding experience; European birds are quite (radically) different, I’ve found. The author also makes a lot of scientific claims as fact, many that are hard to believe, with no scientific reference - we are just meant to trust her (eg. stating songbirds CANNOT fly at night, when they can - they just choose not to - this is misleading). I don't get the hype, and it will not be a reread for me...
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June 13, 2024
Delightful read. Easy to follow and understand, engaging and insightful. I learned a lot. I really enjoyed this book.
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