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Ornithology Books
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The Genius of Birds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.05 — 13,751 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 — 4,257 ratings — published 2020
The Sibley Guide to Birds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.70 — 2,592 ratings — published 2000
The Thing with Feathers: The Surprising Lives of Birds and What They Reveal About Being Human (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.14 — 3,775 ratings — published 2014
Bird Sense: What It's Like to Be a Bird (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,656 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 — 7,233 ratings — published 2023
Handbook of Bird Biology (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.65 — 192 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 — 1,681 ratings — published 2012
Mind of the Raven (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.01 — 4,265 ratings — published 1994
H is for Hawk (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as ornithology)
avg rating 3.74 — 82,408 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 4.07 — 420 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 — 2,531 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 — 296 ratings — published 1990
Ornithology (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.34 — 244 ratings — published 1989
The Sibley Guide to Bird Life & Behavior (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.47 — 1,159 ratings — published 2001
Manual of Ornithology: Avian Structure and Function (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.54 — 119 ratings — published 1993
The Life of Birds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,999 ratings — published 1998
The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Eastern North America (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.67 — 1,595 ratings — published 2003
National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.43 — 2,560 ratings — published 1983
Feathers: The Evolution of a Natural Miracle (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,830 ratings — published 2001
The Bedside Book of Birds: An Avian Miscellany (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as ornithology)
avg rating 3.75 — 806 ratings — published 2005
A World on the Wing: The Global Odyssey of Migratory Birds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.20 — 2,175 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 — 10,001 ratings — published 1994
Bird Brains: The Intelligence of Crows, Ravens, Magpies, and Jays (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.12 — 973 ratings — published 1995
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 — 551 ratings — published 1941
The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Western North America (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.72 — 1,069 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 — 652 ratings — published 2022
The Backyard Bird Chronicles (Flexibound)
by (shelved 9 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.02 — 16,187 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 3.94 — 2,184 ratings — published 2012
The Peregrine (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.15 — 6,040 ratings — published 1967
Sibley's Birding Basics (Sibley Guides)
by (shelved 9 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,021 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 — 3,001 ratings — published 2021
The Most Perfect Thing: Inside and Outside a Bird's Egg (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as ornithology)
avg rating 3.99 — 531 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 — 1,896 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 — 2,766 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 4.71 — 924 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 — 6,412 ratings — published 2020
The Warbler Guide (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.71 — 301 ratings — published 2013
The Unfeathered Bird (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.62 — 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 — 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 — 583 ratings — published 1999
National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Birds: Eastern Region (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,102 ratings — published 1977
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 — 328 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 — 36,047 ratings — published 2018
One Wild Bird At A Time: Portraits of Individual Lives (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as ornithology)
avg rating 3.88 — 1,162 ratings — published 2016
Crow Planet: Essential Wisdom from the Urban Wilderness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as ornithology)
avg rating 3.75 — 2,824 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 — 206 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 4.11 — 12,952 ratings — published 2008
“But in the early 1970s, we were not birdwatching. We were birding, and that made all the difference. We were out to seek, to discover, to chase, to learn, to find as many different kinds of birds as possible — and, in friendly competition, to try to find more of them than the next birder. We became a community of birders, with the complications that human societies always have; and although it was the birds that had brought us together, our story became a human story after all.”
― Kingbird Highway: The Biggest Year in the Life of an Extreme Birder
― Kingbird Highway: The Biggest Year in the Life of an Extreme Birder
“Delores, the Wise Woman of Botany, told me while I was in Washington that every seven years, employees of my pay grade are entitled to a sabbatical, and I'm two years late in taking mine. She helped me fill out the form. I listed my purpose: "to study the birds of the southeastern United States with an emphasis on the marshlands of Florida."
Hugh Adamson sputtered an objection, but he couldn't do a thing. Apparently, the sabbatical is a long-standing Smithsonian policy that would actually take an Act of Congress to reverse. I didn't write on the form of my other intention: to freelance, get my name out there, and see whether Florida is where I belong.”
― The Marsh Queen
Hugh Adamson sputtered an objection, but he couldn't do a thing. Apparently, the sabbatical is a long-standing Smithsonian policy that would actually take an Act of Congress to reverse. I didn't write on the form of my other intention: to freelance, get my name out there, and see whether Florida is where I belong.”
― The Marsh Queen
