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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorThe Avifauna of British India and Its Dependencies
James A. Murray · 424 pages
Bird Sense: What It's Like to Be a Bird
Tim Birkhead · 276 pages
Looks at the adaptive significance of bird behavior. A lifetime spent in ornithological research and old-fashioned bird-watching has convinced the author that "we have consistently underestimated what goes on in a bird's head." He describes how using the latest available tools, neurobiologists have uncovered new aspects of bird perception--e.g., the fact that female birds that see in the ultraviol
The Life of Birds
David Attenborough · 320 pages
Companion to the PBS documentary television series on ornithology that was produced by the English naturalist and television broadcaster David Attenborough and the Natural History Unit of the British Broadcasting Corporation. Discusses bird intellect, the evolution of birds, bird achievements, breeding, and the vocal skills of birds. Includes educational resources for teachers.
Gifts of the Crow: How Perception, Emotion, and Thought Allow Smart Birds to Behave Like Humans
John M. Marzluff, Tony Angell · 287 pages
Birdology: Adventures with a Pack of Hens, a Peck of Pigeons, Cantankerous Crows, Fierce Falcons, Hip Hop Parrots, Baby Hummingbirds, and One Murderously Big Living Dinosaur
Sy Montgomery · 260 pages
The Thing with Feathers: The Surprising Lives of Birds and What They Reveal About Being Human
Noah Strycker · 288 pages
"The Thing with Feathers by Noah Strycker is a fun and profound look at the lives of birds, illuminating their surprising world--and deep connection with humanity"--
The Genius of Birds
Jennifer Ackerman · 346 pages
"Birds are astonishingly intelligent creatures. In fact, according to revolutionary new research, some birds rival primates and even humans in their remarkable forms of intelligence. Like humans, many birds have enormous brains relative to their size. Although small, bird brains are packed with neurons that allow them to punch well above their weight. In The Genius of Birds, acclaimed author Jenni
Ravens in Winter: A Zoological Detective Story
Bernd Heinrich · 379 pages
National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America
National Geographic Society, Jon L. Dunn, Mary B. Dickinson, Erik Bloom · 464 pages
Birds of Europe
Lars Svensson, Dan Zetterstrom, Killian Mullarney · 448 pages
"Since it was first published a decade ago, Birds of Europe has become the definitive field guide to the diverse birdlife found in Europe. Now this superb guide has been brought fully up to date with revised text and maps along with added illustrations. Uniquely designed for easy use in the field, this expanded edition covers all 772 species found in the region as well as 32 introduced species or
Finches and Sparrows
Peter Clement · 512 pages
This is a guide to 'true' finches and sparrows illustrating all the species, many races and most sex and age variations, with almost 950 portraits. The maps accompanying the illustrations show breeding and wintering ranges for all species. Although the guide is not primarily intended for cagebird enthusiasts, it will also be useful for those wishing to know more about the species encountered in ca
The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Eastern North America: Second Edition
David Allen Sibley · 464 pages
Birds of North America: A Guide to Field Identification
Chandler S. Robbins, Bertel Bruun, Herbert S. Zim · 340 pages
Look Up!: Bird-Watching in Your Own Backyard
Annette LeBlanc Cate · 64 pages
A conversational, humorous introduction to bird-watching featuring quirky full-color illustrations portray dozens of birds chatting about their distinctive characteristics, including color, shape, plumage, and beak and foot types.
A Field Guide to Western Birds
Roger Tory Peterson · 366 pages
A field guide to the birds of western North America -- sponsored by the National Audubon Society, the National Wildlife Federation, and the Roger Tory Peterson Institute.
John James Audubon
Richard Rhodes · 521 pages
"From the historian Richard Rhodes, the first major biography of John James Audubon in forty years, and the first to illuminate fully the private and family life of the master illustrator of the natural world." "Rhodes shows us young Audubon arriving in New York from France in 1803, his illegitimacy a painful secret, speaking no English but already drawing and observing birds. We see him falling i
Moonbird: A Year on the Wind with the Great Survivor B95
Phillip M. Hoose · 148 pages
Farther Away
Jonathan Franzen · 355 pages
This collection of Franzen's non-fiction confirms his status not only as a great American novelist but also as a master noticer, social critic, and self-investigator. In 'Farther Away', he returns to the themes, both human and literary, that have long preoccupied him.
The Boy Who Drew Birds: A Story of John James Audubon
Jacqueline Davies · 32 pages
As a boy, John James Audubon loved to watch birds. In 1804, at the age of eighteen, he moved from his home in France to Pennsylvania. There he took a particular interest in peewee flycatchers. While observing these birds, John James became determined to answer a pair of two-thousand-year-old questions: Where do small birds go in the winter, and do they return to the same nest in the spring?
A Sand County Almanac: With Essays on Conservation from Round River
Aldo Leopold · 269 pages
First published in 1949 and praised in The New York Times Book Review as a trenchant book, full of vigor and bite, A Sand County Almanac combines some of the finest nature writing since Thoreau with an outspoken and highly ethical regard for Americas relationship to the land. Written with an unparalleled understanding of the ways of nature, the book includes a section on the monthly changes of the
Birds Art Life Death: A Field Guide to the Small and Significant
Kyo Maclear · 221 pages
A writer’s search for inspiration, beauty, and solace leads her to birds in this meditation on creativity and life – a field guide to things small and significant. In 2012, Kyo Maclear met a musician with a passion for birds. Curious about what had prompted a young urban artist to suddenly embrace nature she decided to follow him for a year to find out. Observing two artists through seasonal
The Snow Geese
William Fiennes · 272 pages
"Every spring, millions of geese embark on an arduous three-thousand-mile migration from their winter quarters in the southern United States to their breeding grounds in the Canadian Arctic. One year William Fiennes decided to go with them. Intrigued by what he'd read about the birds' amazing annual journey, Fiennes was also desperate to emerge from a period of illness and from the belief that, at