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The Genius of Birds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.04 — 14,236 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 — 4,406 ratings — published 2020
The Sibley Guide to Birds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.70 — 2,612 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 — 3,869 ratings — published 2014
Bird Sense: What It's Like to Be a Bird (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,675 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 — 7,662 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 4.10 — 1,722 ratings — published 2012
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 — 4,354 ratings — published 1994
What It's Like to Be a Bird: From Flying to Nesting, Eating to Singing—What Birds Are Doing, and Why (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.42 — 2,611 ratings — published 2020
H is for Hawk (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as ornithology)
avg rating 3.73 — 85,230 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 — 119 ratings — published 1993
Ornithology (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.35 — 246 ratings — published 1989
Kaufman Field Guide to Advanced Birding: Understanding What You See and Hear (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.48 — 300 ratings — published 1990
The Life of Birds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.42 — 2,184 ratings — published 1998
The Bedside Book of Birds: An Avian Miscellany (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as ornithology)
avg rating 3.76 — 820 ratings — published 2005
The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Eastern North America (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.67 — 1,606 ratings — published 2003
National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.43 — 2,567 ratings — published 1983
Feathers: The Evolution of a Natural Miracle (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,852 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 — 10,123 ratings — published 1994
Bird Brains: The Intelligence of Crows, Ravens, Magpies, and Jays (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.13 — 984 ratings — published 1995
The Backyard Bird Chronicles (Flexibound)
by (shelved 10 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.02 — 17,973 ratings — published 2024
A World on the Wing: The Global Odyssey of Migratory Birds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.19 — 2,280 ratings — published 2021
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 — 2,235 ratings — published 2012
The Peregrine (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.15 — 6,318 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 — 1,051 ratings — published 2002
The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Western North America (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.72 — 1,080 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 — 693 ratings — published 2022
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 — 6,632 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 — 2,867 ratings — published 1997
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 4.16 — 3,123 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 — 540 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 — 1,908 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 — 940 ratings — published 1999
The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.01 — 37,601 ratings — published 2018
The Warbler Guide (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.71 — 303 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 4.41 — 584 ratings — published 1999
Ravens in Winter (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,114 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 — 1,109 ratings — published 1977
The Shorebird Guide (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.66 — 173 ratings — published 2006
Mrs. Moreau's Warbler: How Birds Got Their Names (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as ornithology)
avg rating 3.91 — 350 ratings — published 2018
One Wild Bird At A Time: Portraits of Individual Lives (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as ornithology)
avg rating 3.88 — 1,183 ratings — published 2016
Crow Planet: Essential Wisdom from the Urban Wilderness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as ornithology)
avg rating 3.75 — 2,918 ratings — published 2009
Why Birds Sing: A Journey Into the Mystery of Bird Song (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as ornithology)
avg rating 3.50 — 210 ratings — published 2005
“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
“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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