Birds

Birds (class Aves) are a group of endothermic vertebrates, characterized by feathers, a beak with no teeth, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a lightweight but strong skeleton. Birds play prominent and diverse roles in folklore, religion, and art. Books about birds include fiction (particularly children's fiction) and non-fiction (such as guides for birdwatchers). ...more

Knight Owl (The Knight Owl, #1)
The Place of Tides
Palaces of the Crow
Birds of Prey: The Harlan Coben Challenge
The Story of Birds: A New History from Their Dinosaur Origins to the Present ― A Bestselling Paleontologist's Sweeping Story of Birds
The Impossible Thing
The Backyard Bird Chronicles
The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year
Tilda Is Visible
The Wedding Forecast
Orris and Timble: The Beginning
The Bird Watcher
Dinosaurs
Crow Talk
Ember and the Island of Lost Creatures: A Graphic Novel
The Genius of Birds
H is for Hawk
The Backyard Bird Chronicles
The Bird Way: A New Look at How Birds Talk, Work, Play, Parent, and Think
The Thing with Feathers: The Surprising Lives of Birds and What They Reveal About Being Human
Mind of the Raven
What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World's Most Enigmatic Birds
The Big Year: A Tale of Man, Nature, and Fowl Obsession
What It's Like to Be a Bird: From Flying to Nesting, Eating to Singing—What Birds Are Doing, and Why
Kingbird Highway: The Biggest Year in the Life of an Extreme Birder
A Most Remarkable Creature: The Hidden Life and Epic Journey of the World’s Smartest Birds of Prey
Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World
Birding Without Borders: An Obsession, A Quest, and the Biggest Year in the World
Owls of the Eastern Ice: A Quest to Find and Save the World's Largest Owl
The Sibley Guide to Birds
Six of Crows by Leigh BardugoThe Raven Boys by Maggie StiefvaterThe Raven and Other Poems by Edgar Allan PoeCrooked Kingdom by Leigh BardugoAn Enchantment of Ravens by Margaret  Rogerson
Raven & Crow
254 books — 84 voters
Hyena by Mikita BrottmanCrow by Boria SaxTurtle by Louise M. PrykeScorpion by Louise M. PrykeWhale by Joe   Roman
Reaktion Animal Books
105 books — 14 voters

Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskeyJonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard BachThe Ugly Duckling by Hans Christian AndersenThe Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck by Beatrix PotterThe Trumpet of the Swan by E.B. White
Waterfowl
319 books — 50 voters
Birdology by Sy MontgomeryThat Quail, Robert by Margaret A. StangerAlex and Me by Irene M. PepperbergRavenmaster by Christopher SkaifeH is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald
Natural Writing About Birds
144 books — 14 voters

Watership Down by Richard  AdamsThe Queen and the Tom by Ashley ScottCharlotte’s Web by E.B. WhiteInto the Wild by Erin HunterMrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien
Animal Xenofiction (Nonhuman POV)
508 books — 228 voters
The Sibley Guide to Birds by National Audubon SocietyThe Raven by Edgar Allan PoeThe Genius of Birds by Jennifer AckermanH is for Hawk by Helen MacdonaldThe Ugly Duckling by Hans Christian Andersen
Books About Birds
524 books — 107 voters


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“ Two turtle doves will show thee Where my cold ashes lie And sadly murmuring tell thee How in tears I did die ”
― Nikolai Gogol

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