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The Genius of Birds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 403 times as birds)
avg rating 4.04 — 14,526 ratings — published 2016
H is for Hawk (Hardcover)
by (shelved 291 times as birds)
avg rating 3.73 — 86,440 ratings — published 2014
The Backyard Bird Chronicles (Flexibound)
by (shelved 263 times as birds)
avg rating 4.02 — 18,745 ratings — published 2024
The Bird Way: A New Look at How Birds Talk, Work, Play, Parent, and Think (Hardcover)
by (shelved 204 times as birds)
avg rating 4.23 — 4,480 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 — 3,916 ratings — published 2014
Mind of the Raven (Paperback)
by (shelved 163 times as birds)
avg rating 4.00 — 4,417 ratings — published 1994
What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World's Most Enigmatic Birds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 158 times as birds)
avg rating 4.14 — 7,926 ratings — published 2023
The Big Year: A Tale of Man, Nature, and Fowl Obsession (Paperback)
by (shelved 157 times as birds)
avg rating 4.01 — 6,018 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 156 times as birds)
avg rating 4.42 — 2,650 ratings — published 2020
Kingbird Highway: The Biggest Year in the Life of an Extreme Birder ― A Teenage Birder's Hitchhiking Memoir (Paperback)
by (shelved 155 times as birds)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,924 ratings — published 1997
A Most Remarkable Creature: The Hidden Life and Epic Journey of the World’s Smartest Birds of Prey (Hardcover)
by (shelved 131 times as birds)
avg rating 4.16 — 3,216 ratings — published 2021
Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 128 times as birds)
avg rating 4.22 — 7,242 ratings — published 2023
Birding Without Borders: An Obsession, A Quest, and the Biggest Year in the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 128 times as birds)
avg rating 4.27 — 2,429 ratings — published 2017
Owls of the Eastern Ice: A Quest to Find and Save the World's Largest Owl (Hardcover)
by (shelved 124 times as birds)
avg rating 4.19 — 6,750 ratings — published 2020
The Sibley Guide to Birds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 123 times as birds)
avg rating 4.70 — 2,619 ratings — published 2000
The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 119 times as birds)
avg rating 4.01 — 38,657 ratings — published 2018
A World on the Wing: The Global Odyssey of Migratory Birds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 116 times as birds)
avg rating 4.19 — 2,340 ratings — published 2021
What the Robin Knows: How Birds Reveal the Secrets of the Natural World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 115 times as birds)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,744 ratings — published 2012
Mel Fell (Hardcover)
by (shelved 113 times as birds)
avg rating 4.47 — 3,739 ratings — published 2021
Wesley the Owl: The Remarkable Love Story of an Owl and His Girl (Hardcover)
by (shelved 100 times as birds)
avg rating 4.12 — 13,723 ratings — published 2008
Vesper Flights (Hardcover)
by (shelved 96 times as birds)
avg rating 4.08 — 8,591 ratings — published 2020
National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America (Paperback)
by (shelved 94 times as birds)
avg rating 4.43 — 2,572 ratings — published 1983
Gifts of the Crow: How Perception, Emotion, and Thought Allow Smart Birds to Behave Like Humans (Hardcover)
by (shelved 94 times as birds)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,272 ratings — published 2012
Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! (Pigeon, #1)
by (shelved 92 times as birds)
avg rating 4.33 — 107,823 ratings — published 2003
Sibley's Birding Basics (Sibley Guides)
by (shelved 91 times as birds)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,066 ratings — published 2002
The Peregrine (Paperback)
by (shelved 90 times as birds)
avg rating 4.14 — 6,494 ratings — published 1967
Bird Sense: What It's Like to Be a Bird (Hardcover)
by (shelved 87 times as birds)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,689 ratings — published 2012
Mozart's Starling (ebook)
by (shelved 86 times as birds)
avg rating 3.96 — 3,824 ratings — published 2017
The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year (Hardcover)
by (shelved 85 times as birds)
avg rating 4.15 — 17,366 ratings — published 2023
Hooray for Birds! (Hardcover)
by (shelved 85 times as birds)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,055 ratings — published 2017
One Wild Bird At A Time: Portraits of Individual Lives (Hardcover)
by (shelved 85 times as birds)
avg rating 3.88 — 1,195 ratings — published 2016
The Birds That Audubon Missed: Discovery and Desire in the American Wilderness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 82 times as birds)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,144 ratings — published 2024
The Sibley Guide to Bird Life & Behavior (Hardcover)
by (shelved 81 times as birds)
avg rating 4.47 — 1,163 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 — 6,291 ratings — published 2018
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 80 times as birds)
avg rating 4.18 — 1,789 ratings — published 2010
Telephone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 79 times as birds)
avg rating 3.72 — 2,322 ratings — published 2014
The Life of Birds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 79 times as birds)
avg rating 4.41 — 2,292 ratings — published 1998
The Hummingbirds' Gift: Wonder, Beauty, and Renewal on Wings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 78 times as birds)
avg rating 4.15 — 3,824 ratings — published 2021
Migrations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 77 times as birds)
avg rating 4.10 — 122,191 ratings — published 2020
The Field Guide to Dumb Birds of North America (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as birds)
avg rating 4.01 — 5,919 ratings — published 2019
Bird Brains: The Intelligence of Crows, Ravens, Magpies, and Jays (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as birds)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,000 ratings — published 1995
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 75 times as birds)
avg rating 4.11 — 10,402 ratings — published 2008
Birding to Change the World: An Uplifting Memoir that Explores what Birds Can Teach us about Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 73 times as birds)
avg rating 4.32 — 2,404 ratings — published 2024
Owl Babies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 73 times as birds)
avg rating 4.21 — 18,146 ratings — published 1992
The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as birds)
avg rating 4.17 — 10,198 ratings — published 1994
The Bedside Book of Birds: An Avian Miscellany (Hardcover)
by (shelved 72 times as birds)
avg rating 3.76 — 831 ratings — published 2005
Crow Planet: Essential Wisdom from the Urban Wilderness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 71 times as birds)
avg rating 3.75 — 2,993 ratings — published 2009
Rare Encounters with Ordinary Birds: A Bird Book for Adults (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as birds)
avg rating 4.18 — 615 ratings — published 2001
“Some birds are not meant to be caged, that's all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild.”
― Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption
― Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption
“The past was like a bad dream; the future was all happy holiday as I moved Southwards week by week, easily, lazily, lingering as long as I dared, but always heeding the call!”
― The Wind in the Willows
― The Wind in the Willows
