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The Genius of Birds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 396 times as birds)
avg rating 4.04 — 14,394 ratings — published 2016
H is for Hawk (Hardcover)
by (shelved 292 times as birds)
avg rating 3.73 — 85,820 ratings — published 2014
The Backyard Bird Chronicles (Flexibound)
by (shelved 262 times as birds)
avg rating 4.02 — 18,396 ratings — published 2024
The Bird Way: A New Look at How Birds Talk, Work, Play, Parent, and Think (Hardcover)
by (shelved 199 times as birds)
avg rating 4.23 — 4,440 ratings — published 2020
The Thing with Feathers: The Surprising Lives of Birds and What They Reveal About Being Human (Hardcover)
by (shelved 174 times as birds)
avg rating 4.13 — 3,889 ratings — published 2014
Mind of the Raven (Paperback)
by (shelved 163 times as birds)
avg rating 4.00 — 4,383 ratings — published 1994
What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World's Most Enigmatic Birds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 157 times as birds)
avg rating 4.13 — 7,803 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 — 5,990 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 — 2,628 ratings — published 2020
Kingbird Highway: The Biggest Year in the Life of an Extreme Birder (Paperback)
by (shelved 155 times as birds)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,895 ratings — published 1997
A Most Remarkable Creature: The Hidden Life and Epic Journey of the World’s Smartest Birds of Prey (Hardcover)
by (shelved 130 times as birds)
avg rating 4.16 — 3,161 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 — 7,191 ratings — published 2023
Birding Without Borders: An Obsession, A Quest, and the Biggest Year in the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 127 times as birds)
avg rating 4.27 — 2,414 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 — 6,698 ratings — published 2020
The Sibley Guide to Birds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 123 times as birds)
avg rating 4.70 — 2,615 ratings — published 2000
The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 120 times as birds)
avg rating 4.01 — 38,179 ratings — published 2018
A World on the Wing: The Global Odyssey of Migratory Birds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 115 times as birds)
avg rating 4.19 — 2,305 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 — 1,730 ratings — published 2012
Mel Fell (Hardcover)
by (shelved 111 times as birds)
avg rating 4.47 — 3,689 ratings — published 2021
Wesley the Owl: The Remarkable Love Story of an Owl and His Girl (Hardcover)
by (shelved 101 times as birds)
avg rating 4.13 — 13,661 ratings — published 2008
Vesper Flights (Hardcover)
by (shelved 96 times as birds)
avg rating 4.09 — 8,554 ratings — published 2020
National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America (Paperback)
by (shelved 94 times as birds)
avg rating 4.43 — 2,570 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 — 2,257 ratings — published 2012
Sibley's Birding Basics (Sibley Guides)
by (shelved 91 times as birds)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,057 ratings — published 2002
Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! (Pigeon, #1)
by (shelved 91 times as birds)
avg rating 4.33 — 107,554 ratings — published 2003
The Peregrine (Paperback)
by (shelved 88 times as birds)
avg rating 4.14 — 6,408 ratings — published 1967
Bird Sense: What It's Like to Be a Bird (Hardcover)
by (shelved 87 times as birds)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,679 ratings — published 2012
Mozart's Starling (ebook)
by (shelved 86 times as birds)
avg rating 3.96 — 3,798 ratings — published 2017
The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year (Hardcover)
by (shelved 85 times as birds)
avg rating 4.15 — 17,066 ratings — published 2023
One Wild Bird At A Time: Portraits of Individual Lives (Hardcover)
by (shelved 85 times as birds)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,189 ratings — published 2016
Hooray for Birds! (Hardcover)
by (shelved 84 times as birds)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,049 ratings — published 2017
The Sibley Guide to Bird Life & Behavior (Hardcover)
by (shelved 81 times as birds)
avg rating 4.47 — 1,161 ratings — published 2001
The Birds That Audubon Missed: Discovery and Desire in the American Wilderness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 80 times as birds)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,114 ratings — published 2024
The Ravenmaster: My Life with the Ravens at the Tower of London (Hardcover)
by (shelved 80 times as birds)
avg rating 4.04 — 6,254 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 — 1,759 ratings — published 2010
Telephone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 79 times as birds)
avg rating 3.72 — 2,311 ratings — published 2014
The Hummingbirds' Gift: Wonder, Beauty, and Renewal on Wings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 78 times as birds)
avg rating 4.15 — 3,785 ratings — published 2021
The Life of Birds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 78 times as birds)
avg rating 4.42 — 2,232 ratings — published 1998
The Field Guide to Dumb Birds of North America (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as birds)
avg rating 4.01 — 5,879 ratings — published 2019
Bird Brains: The Intelligence of Crows, Ravens, Magpies, and Jays (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as birds)
avg rating 4.13 — 992 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 76 times as birds)
avg rating 4.11 — 10,369 ratings — published 2008
Migrations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 74 times as birds)
avg rating 4.10 — 119,687 ratings — published 2020
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 — 2,349 ratings — published 2024
Owl Babies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 73 times as birds)
avg rating 4.22 — 18,098 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 — 10,159 ratings — published 1994
The Bedside Book of Birds: An Avian Miscellany (Hardcover)
by (shelved 73 times as birds)
avg rating 3.76 — 826 ratings — published 2005
Crow Planet: Essential Wisdom from the Urban Wilderness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 71 times as birds)
avg rating 3.75 — 2,959 ratings — published 2009
Rare Encounters with Ordinary Birds: A Bird Book for Adults (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as birds)
avg rating 4.18 — 603 ratings — published 2001
“I don’t know [why we're here]. People sometimes say to me, ‘Why don’t you admit that the humming bird, the butterfly, the Bird of Paradise are proof of the wonderful things produced by Creation?’ And I always say, well, when you say that, you’ve also got to think of a little boy sitting on a river bank, like here, in West Africa, that’s got a little worm, a living organism, in his eye and boring through the eyeball and is slowly turning him blind. The Creator God that you believe in, presumably, also made that little worm. Now I personally find that difficult to accommodate…”
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“The bird dares to break the shell, then the shell breaks open and the bird can fly openly. This is the simplest principle of success. You dream, you dare and and you fly.”
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