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The Genius of Birds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.04 — 14,394 ratings — published 2016
The Bird Way: A New Look at How Birds Talk, Work, Play, Parent, and Think (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.23 — 4,440 ratings — published 2020
The Sibley Guide to Birds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.70 — 2,615 ratings — published 2000
The Thing with Feathers: The Surprising Lives of Birds and What They Reveal About Being Human (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.13 — 3,889 ratings — published 2014
What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World's Most Enigmatic Birds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.13 — 7,803 ratings — published 2023
Bird Sense: What It's Like to Be a Bird (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,679 ratings — published 2012
What the Robin Knows: How Birds Reveal the Secrets of the Natural World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,730 ratings — published 2012
What It's Like to Be a Bird: From Flying to Nesting, Eating to Singing—What Birds Are Doing, and Why (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.42 — 2,628 ratings — published 2020
Handbook of Bird Biology (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.65 — 193 ratings — published 2004
Mind of the Raven (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.00 — 4,383 ratings — published 1994
H is for Hawk (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as ornithology)
avg rating 3.73 — 85,819 ratings — published 2014
The Sibley Guide to Bird Life & Behavior (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.47 — 1,161 ratings — published 2001
The Bird: A Natural History of Who Birds Are, Where They Came From & How They Live (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.08 — 423 ratings — published 2008
Manual of Ornithology: Avian Structure and Function (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.54 — 120 ratings — published 1993
Ornithology (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.35 — 246 ratings — published 1989
The Life of Birds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.42 — 2,232 ratings — published 1998
A World on the Wing: The Global Odyssey of Migratory Birds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.19 — 2,305 ratings — published 2021
Kaufman Field Guide to Advanced Birding: Understanding What You See and Hear (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.48 — 301 ratings — published 1990
The Bedside Book of Birds: An Avian Miscellany (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as ornithology)
avg rating 3.76 — 826 ratings — published 2005
The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Eastern North America (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.67 — 1,613 ratings — published 2003
National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.43 — 2,570 ratings — published 1983
Feathers: The Evolution of a Natural Miracle (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,854 ratings — published 2001
The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.17 — 10,159 ratings — published 1994
Bird Brains: The Intelligence of Crows, Ravens, Magpies, and Jays (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.13 — 992 ratings — published 1995
The Backyard Bird Chronicles (Flexibound)
by (shelved 10 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.02 — 18,396 ratings — published 2024
Ten Thousand Birds: Ornithology since Darwin (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.33 — 61 ratings — published 2014
Gifts of the Crow: How Perception, Emotion, and Thought Allow Smart Birds to Behave Like Humans (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as ornithology)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,257 ratings — published 2012
The Peregrine (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.14 — 6,408 ratings — published 1967
A Field Guide to Western Birds: A Completely New Guide to Field Marks of All Species Found in North America West of the 100th Meridian and North of Mexico (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.42 — 556 ratings — published 1941
Sibley's Birding Basics (Sibley Guides)
by (shelved 10 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,057 ratings — published 2002
The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Western North America (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.72 — 1,085 ratings — published 2003
Birds and Us: A 12,000 Year History, from Cave Art to Conservation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as ornithology)
avg rating 3.82 — 701 ratings — published 2022
A Most Remarkable Creature: The Hidden Life and Epic Journey of the World’s Smartest Birds of Prey (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.16 — 3,161 ratings — published 2021
Owls of the Eastern Ice: A Quest to Find and Save the World's Largest Owl (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.19 — 6,698 ratings — published 2020
Kingbird Highway: The Biggest Year in the Life of an Extreme Birder (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,895 ratings — published 1997
The Most Perfect Thing: Inside and Outside a Bird's Egg (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.00 — 545 ratings — published 2016
A Field Guide to the Birds of Eastern and Central North America (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.44 — 1,910 ratings — published 1980
Collins Bird Guide: The Most Complete Guide to the Birds of Britain and Europe (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.71 — 946 ratings — published 1999
The Shorebird Guide (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.67 — 174 ratings — published 2006
The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.01 — 38,179 ratings — published 2018
The Warbler Guide (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.71 — 304 ratings — published 2013
The Unfeathered Bird (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.63 — 110 ratings — published 2012
The Singing Life of Birds: The Art and Science of Listening to Birdsong (with CD)
by (shelved 7 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.27 — 272 ratings — published 2005
Living on the Wind: Across the Hemisphere With Migratory Birds (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.42 — 585 ratings — published 1999
Ravens in Winter (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,116 ratings — published 1989
National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Birds: Eastern Region (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.30 — 1,110 ratings — published 1977
The Birds That Audubon Missed: Discovery and Desire in the American Wilderness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,114 ratings — published 2024
Mrs. Moreau's Warbler: How Birds Got Their Names (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as ornithology)
avg rating 3.91 — 352 ratings — published 2018
One Wild Bird At A Time: Portraits of Individual Lives (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as ornithology)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,189 ratings — published 2016
Cuckoo: Cheating by Nature (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.30 — 367 ratings — published 2015
“There are still many unsolved problems about bird life, among which are the age that birds attain, the exact time at which some birds acquire their adult dress, and the changes which occur in this with years. Little, too, is known about the laws and routes of bird migration, and much less about the final disposition of the untold thousands which are annually produced.”
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“There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before.”
― The Blue Lion; And Other Essays
― The Blue Lion; And Other Essays
