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Kingbird Highway: The Biggest Year in the Life of an Extreme Birder (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as birding)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,882 ratings — published 1997
The Big Year: A Tale of Man, Nature, and Fowl Obsession (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as birding)
avg rating 4.01 — 5,974 ratings — published 2003
The Sibley Guide to Birds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as birding)
avg rating 4.70 — 2,613 ratings — published 2000
National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as birding)
avg rating 4.43 — 2,568 ratings — published 1983
Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as birding)
avg rating 4.22 — 7,155 ratings — published 2023
The Backyard Bird Chronicles (Flexibound)
by (shelved 51 times as birding)
avg rating 4.02 — 18,228 ratings — published 2024
Sibley's Birding Basics (Sibley Guides)
by (shelved 51 times as birding)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,054 ratings — published 2002
The Genius of Birds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as birding)
avg rating 4.04 — 14,329 ratings — published 2016
Birding Without Borders: An Obsession, A Quest, and the Biggest Year in the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as birding)
avg rating 4.27 — 2,403 ratings — published 2017
To See Every Bird on Earth: A Father, a Son, and a Lifetime Obsession (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as birding)
avg rating 3.73 — 1,049 ratings — published 2005
The Birds That Audubon Missed: Discovery and Desire in the American Wilderness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as birding)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,099 ratings — published 2024
The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Eastern North America (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as birding)
avg rating 4.67 — 1,609 ratings — published 2003
Life List: A Woman's Quest for the World's Most Amazing Birds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as birding)
avg rating 3.85 — 1,077 ratings — published 2009
The Sibley Guide to Bird Life & Behavior (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as birding)
avg rating 4.47 — 1,161 ratings — published 2001
What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World's Most Enigmatic Birds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as birding)
avg rating 4.13 — 7,735 ratings — published 2023
The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Western North America (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as birding)
avg rating 4.72 — 1,084 ratings — published 2003
Kaufman Field Guide to Advanced Birding: Understanding What You See and Hear (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as birding)
avg rating 4.48 — 301 ratings — published 1990
The Thing with Feathers: The Surprising Lives of Birds and What They Reveal About Being Human (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as birding)
avg rating 4.13 — 3,887 ratings — published 2014
A Field Guide to the Birds of Eastern and Central North America (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as birding)
avg rating 4.44 — 1,909 ratings — published 1980
Good Birders Don't Wear White: 50 Tips From North America's Top Birders (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as birding)
avg rating 3.81 — 634 ratings — published 2007
Slow Birding: The Art and Science of Enjoying the Birds in Your Own Backyard (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as birding)
avg rating 3.68 — 999 ratings — published 2022
Birding to Change the World: An Uplifting Memoir that Explores what Birds Can Teach us about Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as birding)
avg rating 4.32 — 2,317 ratings — published 2024
Kaufman Field Guide to Birds of North America (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as birding)
avg rating 4.46 — 477 ratings — published 2000
Lost Among the Birds: Accidentally Finding Myself in One Very Big Year (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as birding)
avg rating 4.05 — 672 ratings — published 2016
The Bird Way: A New Look at How Birds Talk, Work, Play, Parent, and Think (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as birding)
avg rating 4.23 — 4,430 ratings — published 2020
What It's Like to Be a Bird: From Flying to Nesting, Eating to Singing—What Birds Are Doing, and Why (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as birding)
avg rating 4.42 — 2,620 ratings — published 2020
H is for Hawk (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as birding)
avg rating 3.73 — 85,554 ratings — published 2014
A Supremely Bad Idea: Three Mad Birders and Their Quest to See It All (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as birding)
avg rating 3.62 — 755 ratings — published 2008
The Shorebird Guide (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as birding)
avg rating 4.67 — 174 ratings — published 2006
A Season On The Wind: Inside the World of Spring Migration (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as birding)
avg rating 4.09 — 791 ratings — published 2019
Of a Feather: A Brief History of American Birding (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as birding)
avg rating 4.07 — 450 ratings — published 2007
Field Notes from an Unintentional Birder: A Memoir (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as birding)
avg rating 3.80 — 1,597 ratings — published 2020
The Warbler Guide (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 16 times as birding)
avg rating 4.71 — 303 ratings — published 2013
The Life of Birds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as birding)
avg rating 4.42 — 2,215 ratings — published 1998
Birds of North America: A Guide to Field Identification (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as birding)
avg rating 4.29 — 853 ratings — published 1966
The Feather Quest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as birding)
avg rating 4.16 — 166 ratings — published 1992
Hawks in Flight: The Flight Identification of North American Migrant Raptors (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as birding)
avg rating 4.40 — 287 ratings — published 1988
Birding Under the Influence: Cycling Across America in Search of Birds and Recovery (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as birding)
avg rating 4.21 — 513 ratings — published 2023
What the Robin Knows: How Birds Reveal the Secrets of the Natural World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as birding)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,728 ratings — published 2012
How to Be a (Bad) Birdwatcher
by (shelved 15 times as birding)
avg rating 3.98 — 1,098 ratings — published 2004
Birder's Handbook: A Field Guide to the Natural History of North American Birds (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as birding)
avg rating 4.43 — 279 ratings — published 1988
A World on the Wing: The Global Odyssey of Migratory Birds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as birding)
avg rating 4.19 — 2,293 ratings — published 2021
How to Know the Birds: The Art and Adventure of Birding (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as birding)
avg rating 3.94 — 464 ratings — published 2019
One Wild Bird At A Time: Portraits of Individual Lives (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as birding)
avg rating 3.88 — 1,188 ratings — published 2016
The Grail Bird: Hot on the Trail of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as birding)
avg rating 4.00 — 567 ratings — published 2005
A Field Guide to Western Birds: A Completely New Guide to Field Marks of All Species Found in North America West of the 100th Meridian and North of Mexico (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as birding)
avg rating 4.42 — 556 ratings — published 1941
Flight Paths: How a Passionate and Quirky Group of Pioneering Scientists Solved the Mystery of Bird Migration (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as birding)
avg rating 4.07 — 852 ratings — published 2023
Collins Bird Guide: The Most Complete Guide to the Birds of Britain and Europe (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as birding)
avg rating 4.71 — 943 ratings — published 1999
The Field Guide to Dumb Birds of North America (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as birding)
avg rating 4.01 — 5,851 ratings — published 2019
Bird Sense: What It's Like to Be a Bird (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as birding)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,678 ratings — published 2012
“Birding shifts your perceptions, adding new layers of meaning and brokering connections between sounds and seasons, across far-flung places, and between who we are as people and a wild world that both transcends and embraces us.”
― Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World
― Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World
“A native landscape enters a child’s mind through a meld of sensations: the smell of seaweed or hay, the sound of cicadas, the cold grit of stone. It is all heart and magic, confusion rather than order, but the feeling it evokes is wholly satisfying and lasting. Gaining this kind of deep familiarity with a landscape other than your native one is like learning to speak a foreign language. You can’t hope for quick or easy fluency. You work from the outside in, by accumulating a vocabulary of observed details. You learn where things happen in the rhythmic revolutions of the days and the year, which shrubs harbor families of grackles, which stands of beach plum send out sprays of August bloom, where the hog-nose snake waits for its toad, and the toad for its fly. Slowly the strange becomes familiar; the familiar becomes precious.”
― Birds by the Shore: Observing the Natural Life of the Atlantic Coast
― Birds by the Shore: Observing the Natural Life of the Atlantic Coast
