Birds

Birds (class Aves) are a group of endothermic vertebrates, characterized by feathers, a beak with no teeth, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a lightweight but strong skeleton. Birds play prominent and diverse roles in folklore, religion, and art. Books about birds include fiction (particularly children's fiction) and non-fiction (such as guides for birdwatchers). ...more

New Releases Tagged "Birds"

The Flightless Birds of New Hope
The Impossible Thing
Knight Owl (The Knight Owl, #1)
The Place of Tides
The Backyard Bird Chronicles
The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year
Tilda Is Visible
The Wedding Forecast
The Axeman's Carnival
The Flightless Birds of New Hope
Crow Talk
The Glass House (Menzies Mental Health #1)
What the Chicken Knows: A New Appreciation of the World's Most Familiar Bird
Dinosaurs
Don't Touch that Flower
Flatlands
The Genius of Birds
H is for Hawk
The Backyard Bird Chronicles
The Bird Way: A New Look at How Birds Talk, Work, Play, Parent, and Think
The Thing with Feathers: The Surprising Lives of Birds and What They Reveal About Being Human
Mind of the Raven
The Big Year: A Tale of Man, Nature, and Fowl Obsession
Kingbird Highway: The Biggest Year in the Life of an Extreme Birder
What It's Like to Be a Bird: From Flying to Nesting, Eating to Singing—What Birds Are Doing, and Why
What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World's Most Enigmatic Birds
A Most Remarkable Creature: The Hidden Life and Epic Journey of the World’s Smartest Birds of Prey
Birding Without Borders: An Obsession, A Quest, and the Biggest Year in the World
The Sibley Guide to Birds
Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World
Owls of the Eastern Ice: A Quest to Find and Save the World's Largest Owl
Watership Down by Richard  AdamsCharlotte’s Web by E.B. WhiteInto the Wild by Erin HunterMrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'BrienThe Call of the Wild by Jack London
Animal Xenofiction (Nonhuman POV)
472 books — 185 voters
The Ugly Duckling by Jerry PinkneyWild Swans by Jung ChangDaughter of the Forest by Juliet MarillierThe Trumpet of the Swan by E.B. WhiteSwann’s Way by Marcel Proust
Swans
304 books — 42 voters

The Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsCatching Fire by Suzanne CollinsMockingjay by Suzanne CollinsTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeHarry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling
Birds on a cover
744 books — 160 voters
Cullen and the Kindred Spirit by Gale StanleyHunter and the Hawk by Gale StanleyKade and the Captives by Gale StanleyPeter and the Wolf by Gale StanleyTalon and the Falconer by Gale Stanley
Bird Shifters in Romance
85 books — 53 voters

Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskeyJonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard BachThe Ugly Duckling by Jerry PinkneyThe Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck by Beatrix PotterThe Trumpet of the Swan by E.B. White
Waterfowl
318 books — 49 voters
Six of Crows by Leigh BardugoThe Raven Boys by Maggie StiefvaterThe Raven and Other Poems by Edgar Allan PoeCrooked Kingdom by Leigh BardugoAn Enchantment of Ravens by Margaret  Rogerson
Raven & Crow
246 books — 79 voters


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You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves. Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine. Meanwhile the world goes on. Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain are moving across the landscapes, over the prairies and the deep trees, the mountains and the rivers. Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air, are heading home ag ...more
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Aesop
The haft of the arrow had been feathered with one of the eagles own plumes. We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction.
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