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H is for Hawk
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3.74 avg rating — 80,580 ratings
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The Genius of Birds
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4.05 avg rating — 13,499 ratings
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Wesley the Owl: The Remarkable Love Story of an Owl and His Girl
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4.10 avg rating — 12,621 ratings
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The Wild Birds
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3.96 avg rating — 359 ratings
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The Life of Birds
by
4.41 avg rating — 1,914 ratings
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The Thing with Feathers: The Surprising Lives of Birds and What They Reveal About Being Human
by
4.14 avg rating — 3,722 ratings
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Silent Spring
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4.06 avg rating — 54,791 ratings
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Mind of the Raven
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4,208 ratings
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Kingbird Highway: The Biggest Year in the Life of an Extreme Birder
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4.30 avg rating — 2,709 ratings
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The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century
by
4.01 avg rating — 35,145 ratings
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Owls of the Eastern Ice: A Quest to Find and Save the World's Largest Owl
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4.19 avg rating — 6,268 ratings
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Gifts of the Crow: How Perception, Emotion, and Thought Allow Smart Birds to Behave Like Humans
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3.95 avg rating — 2,146 ratings
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The Birds of Pandemonium: Life Among the Exotic & the Endangered
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4.16 avg rating — 1,030 ratings
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That Quail, Robert: The Acclaimed Story of an Abandoned Chick from Cape Cod That Won the Nation's Heart
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4.33 avg rating — 2,285 ratings
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Birding Without Borders: An Obsession, A Quest, and the Biggest Year in the World
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4.27 avg rating — 2,260 ratings
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The Sibley Guide to Birds
by
4.70 avg rating — 2,580 ratings
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The Ravenmaster: My Life with the Ravens at the Tower of London
by
4.04 avg rating — 6,016 ratings
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The Big Year: A Tale of Man, Nature, and Fowl Obsession
by
4.01 avg rating — 5,779 ratings
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Bird Sense: What It's Like to Be a Bird
by
4.07 avg rating — 1,640 ratings
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Alex & Me: How a Scientist and a Parrot Discovered a Hidden World of Animal Intelligence—and Formed a Deep Bond in the Process
by
4.11 avg rating — 10,106 ratings
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The Penguin Lessons
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4.13 avg rating — 16,778 ratings
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Owls in the Family
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4.11 avg rating — 5,899 ratings
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The Bluebird Effect: Uncommon Bonds with Common Birds
by
4.45 avg rating — 671 ratings
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Rare Encounters with Ordinary Birds: A Bird Book for Adults
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4.17 avg rating — 576 ratings
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What the Robin Knows: How Birds Reveal the Secrets of the Natural World
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4.11 avg rating — 1,664 ratings
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Corvus: A Life with Birds
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4.03 avg rating — 1,107 ratings
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Ravens in Winter
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4.17 avg rating — 1,074 ratings
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Moonbird: A Year on the Wind with the Great Survivor B95
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3.91 avg rating — 2,087 ratings
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The Snow Goose
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4.15 avg rating — 5,663 ratings
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Make Way for Ducklings
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4.25 avg rating — 90,872 ratings
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Ornithology
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4.34 avg rating — 241 ratings
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My Family and Other Animals (Corfu Trilogy, #1)
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4.16 avg rating — 63,504 ratings
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The Bird: A Natural History of Who Birds Are, Where They Came From & How They Live
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4.08 avg rating — 416 ratings
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Crow Planet: Essential Wisdom from the Urban Wilderness
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3.75 avg rating — 2,770 ratings
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Bird Brains: The Intelligence of Crows, Ravens, Magpies, and Jays
by
4.13 avg rating — 962 ratings
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The Last Flight of the Scarlet Macaw: One Woman's Fight to Save the World's Most Beautiful Bird
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4.10 avg rating — 1,017 ratings
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The Most Perfect Thing: Inside and Outside a Bird's Egg
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 526 ratings
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Where Song Began: Australia's Birds and How They Changed the World
by
4.22 avg rating — 675 ratings
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My Side of the Mountain (Mountain, #1)
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4.10 avg rating — 85,042 ratings
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The Goshawk
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3.81 avg rating — 1,792 ratings
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The Ugly Duckling
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4.13 avg rating — 43,137 ratings
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The Meaning of Birds
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4.21 avg rating — 354 ratings
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Vulture: The Private Life of an Unloved Bird
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4.11 avg rating — 367 ratings
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What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World's Most Enigmatic Birds
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4.14 avg rating — 6,935 ratings
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Enslaved by Ducks
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3.48 avg rating — 3,398 ratings
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Meadowland: The Private Life of an English Field
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4.18 avg rating — 2,329 ratings
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Birds Art Life: A Year of Observation
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3,519 ratings
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The Bird Way: A New Look at How Birds Talk, Work, Play, Parent, and Think
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4.23 avg rating — 4,151 ratings
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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
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4.18 avg rating — 1,714 ratings
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One Wild Bird At A Time: Portraits of Individual Lives
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3.88 avg rating — 1,153 ratings
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A Field Guide to the Birds of Eastern and Central North America
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4.44 avg rating — 1,891 ratings
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Mozart's Starling
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3.96 avg rating — 3,575 ratings
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Mrs. Moreau's Warbler: How Birds Got Their Names
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3.89 avg rating — 322 ratings
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The Geese of Beaver Bog
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4.02 avg rating — 266 ratings
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The Rarest Bird in the World: The Search for the Nechisar Nightjar
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3.21 avg rating — 253 ratings
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Beak of the Moon
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4.12 avg rating — 88 ratings
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Hope Is the Thing with Feathers: A Personal Chronicle of Vanished Birds
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4.22 avg rating — 453 ratings
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The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Eastern North America
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4.67 avg rating — 1,585 ratings
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Birder's Handbook: A Field Guide to the Natural History of North American Birds
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4.43 avg rating — 278 ratings
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Life List: A Woman's Quest for the World's Most Amazing Birds
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3.85 avg rating — 1,065 ratings
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Of a Feather: A Brief History of American Birding
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4.07 avg rating — 443 ratings
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The Falcon Thief: A True Tale of Adventure, Treachery, and the Hunt for the Perfect Bird
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3.83 avg rating — 3,273 ratings
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A Most Remarkable Creature: The Hidden Life and Epic Journey of the World’s Smartest Birds of Prey
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4.17 avg rating — 2,909 ratings
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National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America
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4.43 avg rating — 2,555 ratings
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Explorer's Guide to Wildlife Adventures
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 37 ratings
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One Man's Owl: Abridged Edition
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4.17 avg rating — 284 ratings
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Living on the Wind: Across the Hemisphere With Migratory Birds
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4.42 avg rating — 578 ratings
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Cuckoo: Cheating by Nature
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4.31 avg rating — 344 ratings
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Good Birders Don't Wear White: 50 Tips From North America's Top Birders
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3.81 avg rating — 612 ratings
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Welcome to Subirdia: Sharing Our Neighborhoods with Wrens, Robins, Woodpeckers, and Other Wildlife
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3.88 avg rating — 219 ratings
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Off the Grid (Joe Pickett, #16)
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4.30 avg rating — 24,247 ratings
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A Season On The Wind: Inside the World of Spring Migration – Epic Journeys, Urgent Threats, and the Fight for Bird Conservation
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4.07 avg rating — 749 ratings
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Why Did the Chicken Cross the World?: The Epic Saga of the Bird that Powers Civilization
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3.75 avg rating — 586 ratings
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The Wren: A Biography
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4.19 avg rating — 231 ratings
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Last of the Curlews
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4.20 avg rating — 477 ratings
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Owl Babies
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4.21 avg rating — 17,802 ratings
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Saving Jemima: Life and Love with a Hard-Luck Jay – The Emotional True Story of Rehabilitating an Orphaned Blue Jay
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4.38 avg rating — 555 ratings
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Budgerigar: How a Brave, Chatty and Colourful Little Aussie Bird Stole the World's Heart
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3.55 avg rating — 67 ratings
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The Bedside Book of Birds: An Avian Miscellany
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3.77 avg rating — 798 ratings
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King Solomon's Ring
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4.13 avg rating — 4,611 ratings
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Raptor: A Journey Through Birds
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 373 ratings
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Lost Among the Birds: Accidentally Finding Myself in One Very Big Year
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4.07 avg rating — 643 ratings
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Red-tails in Love: Pale Male's Story—A True Wildlife Drama in Central Park
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4.07 avg rating — 1,078 ratings
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The Magpies: The Ecology and Behaviour of Black-Billed and Yellow-Billed Magpies: The Ecology and Behaviour of Black-Billed and Yellow-Billed Magpies
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4.27 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Look Up!: Bird-Watching in Your Own Backyard
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4.18 avg rating — 691 ratings
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Birds of a Feather: Tales of a Wild Bird Haven
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4.24 avg rating — 29 ratings
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Owls: Our Most Enchanting Bird
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4.18 avg rating — 603 ratings
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Kakapo: Rescued from the Brink of Extinction
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4.57 avg rating — 47 ratings
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Migrations
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4.12 avg rating — 100,637 ratings
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Kea, Bird of Paradox: The Evolution and Behavior of a New Zealand Parrot
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3.82 avg rating — 33 ratings
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Wild Within: How Rescuing Owls Inspired a Family
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3.96 avg rating — 115 ratings
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The Owl Who Liked Sitting on Caesar
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3.67 avg rating — 1,052 ratings
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The Sibley Guide to Bird Life & Behavior
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4.47 avg rating — 1,158 ratings
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The Race to Save the Lord God Bird
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4.16 avg rating — 428 ratings
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Illumination in the Flatwoods: A Season With The Wild Turkey
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4.48 avg rating — 549 ratings
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The Wisdom of Birds: An Illustrated History of Ornithology
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4.21 avg rating — 253 ratings
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Rare Birds of North America
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4.49 avg rating — 47 ratings
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The Reluctant Twitcher: A Quite Truthful Account of My Big Birding Year
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3.82 avg rating — 50 ratings
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Love and Ordinary Creatures
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3.45 avg rating — 51 ratings
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When Eagles Roar: The Amazing Journey of an African Wildlife Adventurer
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4.31 avg rating — 213 ratings
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I've made a specific list specifically for juvenile audiences:
Young Ornithologists: Bird Watching, Falconry, etc. (Juvenile)
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
I'm already out of votes and could use some help with adding in overflow (in the comment section). :) Hoping a fellow birder can help.