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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 — 2,806 ratings — published 1997
The Big Year: A Tale of Man, Nature, and Fowl Obsession (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as birding)
avg rating 4.01 — 5,904 ratings — published 2003
The Sibley Guide to Birds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as birding)
avg rating 4.70 — 2,600 ratings — published 2000
Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as birding)
avg rating 4.22 — 6,919 ratings — published 2023
National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as birding)
avg rating 4.43 — 2,562 ratings — published 1983
Sibley's Birding Basics (Sibley Guides)
by (shelved 49 times as birding)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,033 ratings — published 2002
The Backyard Bird Chronicles (Flexibound)
by (shelved 48 times as birding)
avg rating 4.02 — 17,016 ratings — published 2024
The Genius of Birds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as birding)
avg rating 4.04 — 13,974 ratings — published 2016
Birding Without Borders: An Obsession, A Quest, and the Biggest Year in the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as birding)
avg rating 4.27 — 2,344 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 — 1,035 ratings — published 2005
The Birds That Audubon Missed: Discovery and Desire in the American Wilderness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as birding)
avg rating 4.11 — 989 ratings — published 2024
The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Eastern North America (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as birding)
avg rating 4.67 — 1,597 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 — 1,075 ratings — published 2009
The Sibley Guide to Bird Life & Behavior (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as birding)
avg rating 4.47 — 1,158 ratings — published 2001
What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World's Most Enigmatic Birds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as birding)
avg rating 4.14 — 7,432 ratings — published 2023
The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Western North America (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as birding)
avg rating 4.72 — 1,071 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 — 300 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 — 3,822 ratings — published 2014
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 — 621 ratings — published 2007
Birding to Change the World: A Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as birding)
avg rating 4.32 — 2,113 ratings — published 2024
A Field Guide to the Birds of Eastern and Central North America (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as birding)
avg rating 4.44 — 1,904 ratings — published 1980
Birds of North America (Kaufman Focus Guides)
by (shelved 22 times as birding)
avg rating 4.45 — 472 ratings — published 2000
Slow Birding: The Art and Science of Enjoying the Birds in Your Own Backyard (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as birding)
avg rating 3.68 — 955 ratings — published 2022
Lost Among the Birds: Accidentally Finding Myself in One Very Big Year (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as birding)
avg rating 4.06 — 659 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 — 4,330 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 — 2,554 ratings — published 2020
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 — 751 ratings — published 2008
The Shorebird Guide (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as birding)
avg rating 4.66 — 172 ratings — published 2006
A Season On The Wind: Inside the World of Spring Migration (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as birding)
avg rating 4.08 — 767 ratings — published 2019
H is for Hawk (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as birding)
avg rating 3.74 — 83,511 ratings — published 2014
Field Notes from an Unintentional Birder: A Memoir (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as birding)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,523 ratings — published 2020
The Life of Birds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as birding)
avg rating 4.42 — 2,074 ratings — published 1998
Birds of North America: A Guide to Field Identification (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as birding)
avg rating 4.29 — 843 ratings — published 1966
Of a Feather: A Brief History of American Birding (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as birding)
avg rating 4.07 — 447 ratings — published 2007
The Feather Quest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as birding)
avg rating 4.17 — 162 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 — 473 ratings — published 2023
The Warbler Guide (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 15 times as birding)
avg rating 4.71 — 303 ratings — published 2013
What the Robin Knows: How Birds Reveal the Secrets of the Natural World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as birding)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,695 ratings — published 2012
How to Be a (Bad) Birdwatcher
by (shelved 15 times as birding)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,085 ratings — published 2004
A World on the Wing: The Global Odyssey of Migratory Birds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as birding)
avg rating 4.19 — 2,218 ratings — published 2021
How to Know the Birds: The Art and Adventure of Birding (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as birding)
avg rating 3.93 — 452 ratings — published 2019
One Wild Bird At A Time: Portraits of Individual Lives (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as birding)
avg rating 3.88 — 1,168 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 — 564 ratings — published 2005
Birder's Handbook: A Field Guide to the Natural History of North American Birds (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as birding)
avg rating 4.43 — 278 ratings — published 1988
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 — 928 ratings — published 1999
Bird Sense: What It's Like to Be a Bird (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as birding)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,665 ratings — published 2012
Rare Encounters with Ordinary Birds: A Bird Book for Adults (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as birding)
avg rating 4.17 — 587 ratings — published 2001
Birding with Benefits (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as birding)
avg rating 3.58 — 20,622 ratings — published 2024
The (Big) Year That Flew By
by (shelved 12 times as birding)
avg rating 3.83 — 514 ratings — published 2019
“Another impressive postscript which you can tag on to a description is: ‘Observer familiar with the species’ (this is supposed to denote that you’ve seen one before, either in this country or abroad and so can be reliably expected to recognise it again) but it isn’t infallible – the record may well come back with a reject slip marked: ‘Committee familiar with the observer’!”
― Bill Oddie's Little Black Bird Book
― Bill Oddie's Little Black Bird Book
“[Birds'] lives parallel our own in so many ways and are so filled with humorous and tragic incidents as to fascinate us when once we have learned to observe them intelligently. If only we could sit down and talk things over with any one of them, I am sure that bird would be a valued friend for life.”
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