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The Genius of Birds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.04 — 14,529 ratings — published 2016
The Bird Way: A New Look at How Birds Talk, Work, Play, Parent, and Think (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.23 — 4,480 ratings — published 2020
The Sibley Guide to Birds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.70 — 2,619 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 — 3,915 ratings — published 2014
Bird Sense: What It's Like to Be a Bird (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,689 ratings — published 2012
What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World's Most Enigmatic Birds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.14 — 7,926 ratings — published 2023
What the Robin Knows: How Birds Reveal the Secrets of the Natural World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,744 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 — 2,649 ratings — published 2020
Handbook of Bird Biology (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.65 — 194 ratings — published 2004
Mind of the Raven (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.00 — 4,418 ratings — published 1994
H is for Hawk (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as ornithology)
avg rating 3.73 — 86,446 ratings — published 2014
The Sibley Guide to Bird Life & Behavior (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.47 — 1,163 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 — 424 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 — 247 ratings — published 1989
The Life of Birds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.41 — 2,292 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 — 2,341 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 — 831 ratings — published 2005
The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Eastern North America (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.67 — 1,616 ratings — published 2003
The Backyard Bird Chronicles (Flexibound)
by (shelved 11 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.02 — 18,748 ratings — published 2024
National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.43 — 2,572 ratings — published 1983
Feathers: The Evolution of a Natural Miracle (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,856 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 — 10,198 ratings — published 1994
Bird Brains: The Intelligence of Crows, Ravens, Magpies, and Jays (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.13 — 999 ratings — published 1995
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 — 2,271 ratings — published 2012
The Peregrine (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.14 — 6,495 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 — 555 ratings — published 1941
Sibley's Birding Basics (Sibley Guides)
by (shelved 10 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,066 ratings — published 2002
The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Western North America (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.72 — 1,086 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 3.81 — 710 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 — 3,217 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 — 6,749 ratings — published 2020
Kingbird Highway: The Biggest Year in the Life of an Extreme Birder ― A Teenage Birder's Hitchhiking Memoir (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,925 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 — 548 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 — 1,909 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 — 948 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 — 38,660 ratings — published 2018
The Warbler Guide (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.71 — 305 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 — 271 ratings — published 2005
Living on the Wind: Across the Hemisphere With Migratory Birds (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.41 — 586 ratings — published 1999
Ravens in Winter (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,120 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 4.11 — 1,144 ratings — published 2024
Mrs. Moreau's Warbler: How Birds Got Their Names (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as ornithology)
avg rating 3.91 — 351 ratings — published 2018
One Wild Bird At A Time: Portraits of Individual Lives (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as ornithology)
avg rating 3.88 — 1,195 ratings — published 2016
Cuckoo: Cheating by Nature (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.30 — 369 ratings — published 2015
“Where did you hide your Mockingbirds?" he asks.
"Ornithology," she replies.
"You hid TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD with the bird books?" I ask.
Elena shrugs. "I was being ironic.”
― I Kill the Mockingbird
"Ornithology," she replies.
"You hid TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD with the bird books?" I ask.
Elena shrugs. "I was being ironic.”
― I Kill the Mockingbird
“The next time you see a wee chickadee, calling contentedly and happily while the air makes you shiver from head to foot, think of the hard-shelled frozen insects passing down his throat, the icy air entering lungs and air-sacs, and ponder a moment on the wondrous little laboratory concealed in his mite of a body; which his wings bear up with so little effort, which his tiny legs support, now hopping along a branch, now suspended from some wormy twig.
Can we do aught but silently marvel at this alchemy? A little bundle of muscle and blood, which in this freezing weather can transmute frozen beetles and zero air into a happy, cheery little Black-capped Chickadee, as he names himself, whose bravery shames us, whose trustfulness warms our hearts!
And the next time you raise your gun to needlessly take a feathered life, think of the marvellous little engine which your lead will stifle forever; lower your weapon and look into the clear bright eyes of the bird whose body equals yours in physical perfection, and whose tiny brain can generate a sympathy, a love for its mate, which in sincerity and unselfishness suffers little when compared with human affection.”
― The Bird: its Form and Function
Can we do aught but silently marvel at this alchemy? A little bundle of muscle and blood, which in this freezing weather can transmute frozen beetles and zero air into a happy, cheery little Black-capped Chickadee, as he names himself, whose bravery shames us, whose trustfulness warms our hearts!
And the next time you raise your gun to needlessly take a feathered life, think of the marvellous little engine which your lead will stifle forever; lower your weapon and look into the clear bright eyes of the bird whose body equals yours in physical perfection, and whose tiny brain can generate a sympathy, a love for its mate, which in sincerity and unselfishness suffers little when compared with human affection.”
― The Bird: its Form and Function
