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Birds Books
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The Genius of Birds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 388 times as birds)
avg rating 4.04 — 14,089 ratings — published 2016
H is for Hawk (Hardcover)
by (shelved 290 times as birds)
avg rating 3.74 — 84,442 ratings — published 2014
The Backyard Bird Chronicles (Flexibound)
by (shelved 251 times as birds)
avg rating 4.02 — 17,450 ratings — published 2024
The Bird Way: A New Look at How Birds Talk, Work, Play, Parent, and Think (Hardcover)
by (shelved 193 times as birds)
avg rating 4.23 — 4,361 ratings — published 2020
The Thing with Feathers: The Surprising Lives of Birds and What They Reveal About Being Human (Hardcover)
by (shelved 175 times as birds)
avg rating 4.13 — 3,851 ratings — published 2014
Mind of the Raven (Paperback)
by (shelved 160 times as birds)
avg rating 4.00 — 4,332 ratings — published 1994
The Big Year: A Tale of Man, Nature, and Fowl Obsession (Paperback)
by (shelved 158 times as birds)
avg rating 4.01 — 5,927 ratings — published 2003
What It's Like to Be a Bird: From Flying to Nesting, Eating to Singing—What Birds Are Doing, and Why (Hardcover)
by (shelved 155 times as birds)
avg rating 4.42 — 2,579 ratings — published 2020
Kingbird Highway: The Biggest Year in the Life of an Extreme Birder (Paperback)
by (shelved 154 times as birds)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,834 ratings — published 1997
What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World's Most Enigmatic Birds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 152 times as birds)
avg rating 4.14 — 7,526 ratings — published 2023
Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 127 times as birds)
avg rating 4.22 — 7,001 ratings — published 2023
A Most Remarkable Creature: The Hidden Life and Epic Journey of the World’s Smartest Birds of Prey (Hardcover)
by (shelved 127 times as birds)
avg rating 4.16 — 3,080 ratings — published 2021
Birding Without Borders: An Obsession, A Quest, and the Biggest Year in the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 125 times as birds)
avg rating 4.27 — 2,364 ratings — published 2017
Owls of the Eastern Ice: A Quest to Find and Save the World's Largest Owl (Hardcover)
by (shelved 123 times as birds)
avg rating 4.19 — 6,555 ratings — published 2020
The Sibley Guide to Birds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 122 times as birds)
avg rating 4.70 — 2,604 ratings — published 2000
The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 118 times as birds)
avg rating 4.01 — 37,014 ratings — published 2018
What the Robin Knows: How Birds Reveal the Secrets of the Natural World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 117 times as birds)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,708 ratings — published 2012
A World on the Wing: The Global Odyssey of Migratory Birds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 113 times as birds)
avg rating 4.19 — 2,246 ratings — published 2021
Birds: An Enchanting Story about a Girl Who Observes , Dreams, and Sings for Preschoolers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 112 times as birds)
avg rating 3.96 — 2,441 ratings — published 2009
Mel Fell (Hardcover)
by (shelved 110 times as birds)
avg rating 4.47 — 3,609 ratings — published 2021
Wesley the Owl: The Remarkable Love Story of an Owl and His Girl (Hardcover)
by (shelved 99 times as birds)
avg rating 4.12 — 13,472 ratings — published 2008
Vesper Flights (Hardcover)
by (shelved 95 times as birds)
avg rating 4.08 — 8,429 ratings — published 2020
National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America (Paperback)
by (shelved 94 times as birds)
avg rating 4.43 — 2,564 ratings — published 1983
Gifts of the Crow: How Perception, Emotion, and Thought Allow Smart Birds to Behave Like Humans (Hardcover)
by (shelved 92 times as birds)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,211 ratings — published 2012
Sibley's Birding Basics (Sibley Guides)
by (shelved 91 times as birds)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,041 ratings — published 2002
Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! (Pigeon, #1)
by (shelved 91 times as birds)
avg rating 4.33 — 106,896 ratings — published 2003
The Peregrine (Paperback)
by (shelved 86 times as birds)
avg rating 4.15 — 6,229 ratings — published 1967
Mozart's Starling (ebook)
by (shelved 85 times as birds)
avg rating 3.96 — 3,713 ratings — published 2017
One Wild Bird At A Time: Portraits of Individual Lives (Hardcover)
by (shelved 85 times as birds)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,174 ratings — published 2016
Hooray for Birds! (Hardcover)
by (shelved 84 times as birds)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,039 ratings — published 2017
Bird Sense: What It's Like to Be a Bird (Hardcover)
by (shelved 83 times as birds)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,671 ratings — published 2012
The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year (Hardcover)
by (shelved 82 times as birds)
avg rating 4.15 — 16,409 ratings — published 2023
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 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 81 times as birds)
avg rating 4.18 — 1,739 ratings — published 2010
The Sibley Guide to Bird Life & Behavior (Hardcover)
by (shelved 81 times as birds)
avg rating 4.47 — 1,158 ratings — published 2001
The Ravenmaster: My Life with the Ravens at the Tower of London (Hardcover)
by (shelved 80 times as birds)
avg rating 4.04 — 6,165 ratings — published 2018
Telephone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 79 times as birds)
avg rating 3.72 — 2,297 ratings — published 2014
Alex & Me: How a Scientist and a Parrot Discovered a Hidden World of Animal Intelligence—and Formed a Deep Bond in the Process (Hardcover)
by (shelved 77 times as birds)
avg rating 4.11 — 10,211 ratings — published 2008
The Hummingbirds' Gift: Wonder, Beauty, and Renewal on Wings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 76 times as birds)
avg rating 4.15 — 3,689 ratings — published 2021
Bird Brains: The Intelligence of Crows, Ravens, Magpies, and Jays (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as birds)
avg rating 4.13 — 977 ratings — published 1995
The Field Guide to Dumb Birds of North America (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as birds)
avg rating 4.01 — 5,745 ratings — published 2019
The Life of Birds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 75 times as birds)
avg rating 4.42 — 2,128 ratings — published 1998
The Birds That Audubon Missed: Discovery and Desire in the American Wilderness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 74 times as birds)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,022 ratings — published 2024
Owl Babies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 73 times as birds)
avg rating 4.21 — 17,984 ratings — published 1992
Birding to Change the World: An Uplifting Memoir that Explores what Birds Can Teach us about Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 72 times as birds)
avg rating 4.32 — 2,177 ratings — published 2024
Migrations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 72 times as birds)
avg rating 4.10 — 113,319 ratings — published 2020
The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as birds)
avg rating 4.17 — 10,084 ratings — published 1994
The Bedside Book of Birds: An Avian Miscellany (Hardcover)
by (shelved 72 times as birds)
avg rating 3.76 — 816 ratings — published 2005
Rare Encounters with Ordinary Birds: A Bird Book for Adults (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as birds)
avg rating 4.17 — 591 ratings — published 2001
Birds Art Life: A Year of Observation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 69 times as birds)
avg rating 4.00 — 3,601 ratings — published 2017
“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 again.
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting –
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things.”
―
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 again.
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting –
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things.”
―
“Let us speak less and say more. ( “Words flew away like birds” )”
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