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The Genius of Birds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 364 times as birds)
avg rating 4.05 — 13,451 ratings — published 2016
H is for Hawk (Hardcover)
by (shelved 272 times as birds)
avg rating 3.74 — 80,362 ratings — published 2014
The Backyard Bird Chronicles (Flexibound)
by (shelved 213 times as birds)
avg rating 4.02 — 14,602 ratings — published 2024
The Bird Way: A New Look at How Birds Talk, Work, Play, Parent, and Think (Hardcover)
by (shelved 182 times as birds)
avg rating 4.23 — 4,123 ratings — published 2020
The Thing with Feathers: The Surprising Lives of Birds and What They Reveal About Being Human (Hardcover)
by (shelved 162 times as birds)
avg rating 4.14 — 3,716 ratings — published 2014
Mind of the Raven (Paperback)
by (shelved 157 times as birds)
avg rating 4.00 — 4,192 ratings — published 1994
The Big Year: A Tale of Man, Nature, and Fowl Obsession (Paperback)
by (shelved 154 times as birds)
avg rating 4.01 — 5,765 ratings — published 2003
Kingbird Highway: The Biggest Year in the Life of an Extreme Birder (Paperback)
by (shelved 148 times as birds)
avg rating 4.29 — 2,692 ratings — published 1997
What It's Like to Be a Bird: From Flying to Nesting, Eating to Singing—What Birds Are Doing, and Why (Hardcover)
by (shelved 141 times as birds)
avg rating 4.42 — 2,468 ratings — published 2020
What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World's Most Enigmatic Birds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 131 times as birds)
avg rating 4.14 — 6,860 ratings — published 2023
A Most Remarkable Creature: The Hidden Life and Epic Journey of the World’s Smartest Birds of Prey (Hardcover)
by (shelved 120 times as birds)
avg rating 4.17 — 2,889 ratings — published 2021
Birding Without Borders: An Obsession, A Quest, and the Biggest Year in the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 118 times as birds)
avg rating 4.27 — 2,251 ratings — published 2017
The Sibley Guide to Birds (Paperback)
by (shelved 118 times as birds)
avg rating 4.70 — 2,577 ratings — published 2000
Owls of the Eastern Ice: A Quest to Find and Save the World's Largest Owl (Hardcover)
by (shelved 116 times as birds)
avg rating 4.19 — 6,231 ratings — published 2020
What the Robin Knows: How Birds Reveal the Secrets of the Natural World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 115 times as birds)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,660 ratings — published 2012
Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 114 times as birds)
avg rating 4.23 — 6,562 ratings — published 2023
The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 111 times as birds)
avg rating 4.01 — 34,993 ratings — published 2018
A World on the Wing: The Global Odyssey of Migratory Birds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 109 times as birds)
avg rating 4.20 — 2,123 ratings — published 2021
Mel Fell (Hardcover)
by (shelved 108 times as birds)
avg rating 4.47 — 3,424 ratings — published 2021
Birds: An Enchanting Story about a Girl Who Observes , Dreams, and Sings for Preschoolers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 107 times as birds)
avg rating 3.96 — 2,413 ratings — published 2009
National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America (Paperback)
by (shelved 94 times as birds)
avg rating 4.43 — 2,553 ratings — published 1983
Wesley the Owl: The Remarkable Love Story of an Owl and His Girl (Hardcover)
by (shelved 94 times as birds)
avg rating 4.10 — 12,607 ratings — published 2008
Vesper Flights (Hardcover)
by (shelved 93 times as birds)
avg rating 4.09 — 8,211 ratings — published 2020
Gifts of the Crow: How Perception, Emotion, and Thought Allow Smart Birds to Behave Like Humans (Hardcover)
by (shelved 91 times as birds)
avg rating 3.95 — 2,137 ratings — published 2012
Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! (Pigeon, #1)
by (shelved 88 times as birds)
avg rating 4.33 — 104,586 ratings — published 2003
Sibley's Birding Basics (Sibley Guides)
by (shelved 87 times as birds)
avg rating 4.25 — 1,005 ratings — published 2002
One Wild Bird At A Time: Portraits of Individual Lives (Hardcover)
by (shelved 84 times as birds)
avg rating 3.88 — 1,152 ratings — published 2016
Bird Sense: What It's Like to Be a Bird (Hardcover)
by (shelved 83 times as birds)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,638 ratings — published 2012
Mozart's Starling (ebook)
by (shelved 82 times as birds)
avg rating 3.96 — 3,553 ratings — published 2017
The Peregrine (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as birds)
avg rating 4.14 — 5,850 ratings — published 1967
The Sibley Guide to Bird Life & Behavior (Hardcover)
by (shelved 81 times as birds)
avg rating 4.47 — 1,157 ratings — published 2001
Hooray for Birds! (Hardcover)
by (shelved 80 times as birds)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,021 ratings — published 2017
Telephone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 80 times as birds)
avg rating 3.73 — 2,275 ratings — published 2014
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 79 times as birds)
avg rating 4.18 — 1,713 ratings — published 2010
The Ravenmaster: My Life with the Ravens at the Tower of London (Hardcover)
by (shelved 78 times as birds)
avg rating 4.04 — 6,009 ratings — published 2018
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 76 times as birds)
avg rating 4.11 — 10,091 ratings — published 2008
Bird Brains: The Intelligence of Crows, Ravens, Magpies, and Jays (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as birds)
avg rating 4.13 — 957 ratings — published 1995
The Hummingbirds' Gift: Wonder, Beauty, and Renewal on Wings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 74 times as birds)
avg rating 4.15 — 3,427 ratings — published 2021
Owl Babies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 72 times as birds)
avg rating 4.21 — 17,781 ratings — published 1992
Rare Encounters with Ordinary Birds: A Bird Book for Adults (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as birds)
avg rating 4.17 — 573 ratings — published 2001
The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as birds)
avg rating 4.17 — 9,911 ratings — published 1994
The Field Guide to Dumb Birds of North America (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as birds)
avg rating 4.01 — 5,327 ratings — published 2019
The Bedside Book of Birds: An Avian Miscellany (Hardcover)
by (shelved 69 times as birds)
avg rating 3.77 — 798 ratings — published 2005
The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as birds)
avg rating 4.16 — 14,457 ratings — published 2023
Birds Art Life: A Year of Observation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as birds)
avg rating 4.00 — 3,516 ratings — published 2017
Migrations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 66 times as birds)
avg rating 4.12 — 99,475 ratings — published 2020
Crow Planet: Essential Wisdom from the Urban Wilderness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 66 times as birds)
avg rating 3.75 — 2,761 ratings — published 2009
A Field Guide to the Birds of Eastern and Central North America (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as birds)
avg rating 4.44 — 1,891 ratings — published 1980
Have You Heard the Nesting Bird? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 65 times as birds)
avg rating 4.02 — 848 ratings — published 2014
“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.”
―
“It was my uncle who taught me about the birds and the bees. He sat me down one day and said, 'Remember this, George, the birds fuck the bees.' Then he told me he once banged a girl so hard her freckles came off.”
― Brain Droppings
― Brain Droppings
