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The Genius of Birds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 390 times as birds)
avg rating 4.04 — 14,237 ratings — published 2016
H is for Hawk (Hardcover)
by (shelved 292 times as birds)
avg rating 3.73 — 85,245 ratings — published 2014
The Backyard Bird Chronicles (Flexibound)
by (shelved 259 times as birds)
avg rating 4.02 — 17,990 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 — 4,406 ratings — published 2020
The Thing with Feathers: The Surprising Lives of Birds and What They Reveal About Being Human (Hardcover)
by (shelved 173 times as birds)
avg rating 4.13 — 3,869 ratings — published 2014
Mind of the Raven (Paperback)
by (shelved 162 times as birds)
avg rating 4.00 — 4,355 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 — 5,961 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 — 2,611 ratings — published 2020
Kingbird Highway: The Biggest Year in the Life of an Extreme Birder (Paperback)
by (shelved 156 times as birds)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,867 ratings — published 1997
What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World's Most Enigmatic Birds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 153 times as birds)
avg rating 4.14 — 7,667 ratings — published 2023
Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 128 times as birds)
avg rating 4.22 — 7,108 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 — 3,123 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 — 2,390 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 — 6,632 ratings — published 2020
The Sibley Guide to Birds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 122 times as birds)
avg rating 4.70 — 2,612 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 — 37,616 ratings — published 2018
What the Robin Knows: How Birds Reveal the Secrets of the Natural World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 116 times as birds)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,722 ratings — published 2012
A World on the Wing: The Global Odyssey of Migratory Birds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 114 times as birds)
avg rating 4.19 — 2,282 ratings — published 2021
Mel Fell (Hardcover)
by (shelved 110 times as birds)
avg rating 4.47 — 3,645 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 4.13 — 13,590 ratings — published 2008
Vesper Flights (Hardcover)
by (shelved 96 times as birds)
avg rating 4.08 — 8,490 ratings — published 2020
National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America (Paperback)
by (shelved 94 times as birds)
avg rating 4.43 — 2,567 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 — 2,237 ratings — published 2012
Sibley's Birding Basics (Sibley Guides)
by (shelved 91 times as birds)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,051 ratings — published 2002
Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! (Pigeon, #1)
by (shelved 91 times as birds)
avg rating 4.33 — 107,205 ratings — published 2003
The Peregrine (Paperback)
by (shelved 86 times as birds)
avg rating 4.15 — 6,318 ratings — published 1967
Mozart's Starling (ebook)
by (shelved 85 times as birds)
avg rating 3.96 — 3,749 ratings — published 2017
One Wild Bird At A Time: Portraits of Individual Lives (Hardcover)
by (shelved 85 times as birds)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,184 ratings — published 2016
Hooray for Birds! (Hardcover)
by (shelved 84 times as birds)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,041 ratings — published 2017
Bird Sense: What It's Like to Be a Bird (Hardcover)
by (shelved 84 times as birds)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,675 ratings — published 2012
The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year (Hardcover)
by (shelved 82 times as birds)
avg rating 4.15 — 16,750 ratings — published 2023
The Sibley Guide to Bird Life & Behavior (Hardcover)
by (shelved 81 times as birds)
avg rating 4.47 — 1,161 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 — 6,204 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 — 1,745 ratings — published 2010
Telephone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 79 times as birds)
avg rating 3.72 — 2,300 ratings — published 2014
Bird Brains: The Intelligence of Crows, Ravens, Magpies, and Jays (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as birds)
avg rating 4.13 — 984 ratings — published 1995
The Life of Birds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 77 times as birds)
avg rating 4.42 — 2,185 ratings — published 1998
The Birds That Audubon Missed: Discovery and Desire in the American Wilderness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 76 times as birds)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,074 ratings — published 2024
The Hummingbirds' Gift: Wonder, Beauty, and Renewal on Wings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 76 times as birds)
avg rating 4.15 — 3,737 ratings — published 2021
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 — 10,308 ratings — published 2008
The Field Guide to Dumb Birds of North America (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as birds)
avg rating 4.01 — 5,818 ratings — published 2019
Migrations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 73 times as birds)
avg rating 4.10 — 116,827 ratings — published 2020
Owl Babies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 73 times as birds)
avg rating 4.21 — 18,041 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 — 10,123 ratings — published 1994
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 — 2,264 ratings — published 2024
The Bedside Book of Birds: An Avian Miscellany (Hardcover)
by (shelved 72 times as birds)
avg rating 3.76 — 821 ratings — published 2005
Crow Planet: Essential Wisdom from the Urban Wilderness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 71 times as birds)
avg rating 3.75 — 2,921 ratings — published 2009
Rare Encounters with Ordinary Birds: A Bird Book for Adults (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as birds)
avg rating 4.17 — 595 ratings — published 2001
“Ron seems to be enjoying the celebrations.” said Hermione. “Don’t pretend you didn’t see him. He wasn’t exactly hiding it, was — ?”
The door behind them burst open. To Harry’s horror, Ron came in, laughing, pulling Lavender by the hand.
“Oh,” he said, drawing up short at the sight of Harry and Hermione.
“Oops!” said Lavender, and she backed out of the room, giggling.
There was a horrible, swelling, billowing silence. Hermione was staring at Ron, who refused to look at her. She walked very slowly and erectly toward the door. Harry glanced at Ron, who was looking relieved that nothing worse had happened.
“Oppugno!” came a shriek from the doorway.
Harry spun around [...] The little flock of birds was speeding like a hail of fat golden bullets toward Ron, pecking and clawing at every bit of flesh they could reach.
“Gerremoffme!” he yelled, but with one last look of vindictive fury, Hermione wrenched open the door and disappeared through it. Harry thought he heard a sob before it slammed.”
― Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
The door behind them burst open. To Harry’s horror, Ron came in, laughing, pulling Lavender by the hand.
“Oh,” he said, drawing up short at the sight of Harry and Hermione.
“Oops!” said Lavender, and she backed out of the room, giggling.
There was a horrible, swelling, billowing silence. Hermione was staring at Ron, who refused to look at her. She walked very slowly and erectly toward the door. Harry glanced at Ron, who was looking relieved that nothing worse had happened.
“Oppugno!” came a shriek from the doorway.
Harry spun around [...] The little flock of birds was speeding like a hail of fat golden bullets toward Ron, pecking and clawing at every bit of flesh they could reach.
“Gerremoffme!” he yelled, but with one last look of vindictive fury, Hermione wrenched open the door and disappeared through it. Harry thought he heard a sob before it slammed.”
― Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
“She decided to free herself, dance into the wind, create a new language. And birds fluttered around her, writing “yes” in the sky.”
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