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Ornithology Books
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The Genius of Birds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.05 — 13,476 ratings — published 2016
The Bird Way: A New Look at How Birds Talk, Work, Play, Parent, and Think (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.23 — 4,140 ratings — published 2020
The Sibley Guide to Birds (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.70 — 2,578 ratings — published 2000
The Thing with Feathers: The Surprising Lives of Birds and What They Reveal About Being Human (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.14 — 3,719 ratings — published 2014
Bird Sense: What It's Like to Be a Bird (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,640 ratings — published 2012
What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World's Most Enigmatic Birds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.14 — 6,888 ratings — published 2023
Handbook of Bird Biology (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.65 — 187 ratings — published 2004
What the Robin Knows: How Birds Reveal the Secrets of the Natural World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,661 ratings — published 2012
Mind of the Raven (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.00 — 4,199 ratings — published 1994
H is for Hawk (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as ornithology)
avg rating 3.74 — 80,462 ratings — published 2014
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 — 415 ratings — published 2008
What It's Like to Be a Bird: From Flying to Nesting, Eating to Singing—What Birds Are Doing, and Why (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.42 — 2,472 ratings — published 2020
Kaufman Field Guide to Advanced Birding: Understanding What You See and Hear (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.48 — 292 ratings — published 1990
Ornithology (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.34 — 241 ratings — published 1989
The Sibley Guide to Bird Life & Behavior (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.47 — 1,158 ratings — published 2001
Manual of Ornithology: Avian Structure and Function (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.54 — 120 ratings — published 1993
The Life of Birds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.41 — 1,900 ratings — published 1998
The Bedside Book of Birds: An Avian Miscellany (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as ornithology)
avg rating 3.77 — 797 ratings — published 2005
The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Eastern North America (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.67 — 1,583 ratings — published 2003
National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.43 — 2,553 ratings — published 1983
Feathers: The Evolution of a Natural Miracle (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,822 ratings — published 2001
A World on the Wing: The Global Odyssey of Migratory Birds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.20 — 2,129 ratings — published 2021
Ten Thousand Birds: Ornithology since Darwin (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.29 — 58 ratings — published 2014
The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.17 — 9,916 ratings — published 1994
Bird Brains: The Intelligence of Crows, Ravens, Magpies, and Jays (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.13 — 960 ratings — published 1995
The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Western North America (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.71 — 1,063 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 3.83 — 624 ratings — published 2022
The Backyard Bird Chronicles (Flexibound)
by (shelved 9 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.02 — 14,749 ratings — published 2024
Gifts of the Crow: How Perception, Emotion, and Thought Allow Smart Birds to Behave Like Humans (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as ornithology)
avg rating 3.95 — 2,142 ratings — published 2012
The Peregrine (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.14 — 5,861 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 9 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.42 — 550 ratings — published 1941
Sibley's Birding Basics (Sibley Guides)
by (shelved 9 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.25 — 1,005 ratings — published 2002
A Most Remarkable Creature: The Hidden Life and Epic Journey of the World’s Smartest Birds of Prey (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.17 — 2,896 ratings — published 2021
The Most Perfect Thing: Inside and Outside a Bird's Egg (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.00 — 524 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 — 1,893 ratings — published 1980
Kingbird Highway: The Biggest Year in the Life of an Extreme Birder (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,698 ratings — published 1997
Collins Bird Guide: The Most Complete Guide to the Birds of Britain and Europe (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.70 — 907 ratings — published 1999
Owls of the Eastern Ice: A Quest to Find and Save the World's Largest Owl (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.19 — 6,247 ratings — published 2020
The Warbler Guide (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.70 — 299 ratings — published 2013
The Unfeathered Bird (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.62 — 111 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 4.26 — 270 ratings — published 2005
Living on the Wind: Across the Hemisphere With Migratory Birds (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.42 — 578 ratings — published 1999
The Shorebird Guide (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.66 — 172 ratings — published 2006
Mrs. Moreau's Warbler: How Birds Got Their Names (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as ornithology)
avg rating 3.89 — 320 ratings — published 2018
The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.01 — 35,062 ratings — published 2018
One Wild Bird At A Time: Portraits of Individual Lives (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as ornithology)
avg rating 3.88 — 1,153 ratings — published 2016
Crow Planet: Essential Wisdom from the Urban Wilderness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as ornithology)
avg rating 3.75 — 2,765 ratings — published 2009
Why Birds Sing: A Journey Into the Mystery of Bird Song (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as ornithology)
avg rating 3.52 — 204 ratings — published 2005
Wesley the Owl: The Remarkable Love Story of an Owl and His Girl (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.10 — 12,611 ratings — published 2008
John James Audubon (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.10 — 697 ratings — published 2004
“And he is an owl
He is an owl, "Man" tattooed in his armpit
Under the broken wing
(Stunned by the wall of glare, he fell here)
Under the broken wing of huge shadow that twitches across the floor.
He is a man in hopeless feathers.”
― Wodwo
He is an owl, "Man" tattooed in his armpit
Under the broken wing
(Stunned by the wall of glare, he fell here)
Under the broken wing of huge shadow that twitches across the floor.
He is a man in hopeless feathers.”
― Wodwo
“What melody will our rivers remember if songbirds forget how to sing?”
― Firesmoke
― Firesmoke











