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

New Releases Tagged "Birds"

A Raven of the Rainforest (A Voice of the Wilderness Novel, 5)
Art of the Chicken: A Master Chef's Paintings, Stories, and Recipes of the Humble Bird
The Wedding Forecast
Knight Owl (The Knight Owl, #1)
The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year
The Backyard Bird Chronicles
The Place of Tides
The Story of Birds: A New History from Their Dinosaur Origins to the Present ― A Bestselling Paleontologist's Sweeping Story of Birds
Crow Talk
Birds of Prey: The Harlan Coben Challenge
The Impossible Thing (Patrick Fort, #2)
The Book of Birds
Ten Birds That Changed the World
Hatchet Island (Mike Bowditch, #13)
The Venice Hotel
The Axeman's Carnival
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 Teenage Birder's Hitchhiking Memoir
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
H is for Hawk by Helen MacdonaldBraiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall KimmererProdigal Summer by Barbara KingsolverThe Sound of a Wild Snail Eating by Elisabeth Tova BaileySilent Spring by Rachel Carson
Female Naturalist Writers
288 books — 67 voters
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. RowlingOwl Moon by Jane YolenOwl at Home by Arnold LobelWesley the Owl by Stacey O'BrienThe Owl and the Pussycat by Edward Lear
Best Books about Owls
45 books — 17 voters

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
253 books — 83 voters
Keiko's Story by Linda M. KurthHyena by Mikita BrottmanCrow by Boria SaxTurtle by Louise M. PrykeScorpion by Louise M. Pryke
Reaktion Animal Books
106 books — 19 voters

Animal Farm by George OrwellThe Fox Busters by Dick King-SmithChicken Boy by Frances O'Roark DowellPlumedini's True Tales of Super Chicken Freaks as Retold by C... by John Brady WoodsonThe Case of the Wayward Fae ~ A Chronicle of Mister Marmee by H.L.  Stephens
Chicken Books
150 books — 35 voters
Dewey by Vicki MyronMarley and Me by John GroganHomer's Odyssey by Gwen CooperOogy by Larry LevinWesley the Owl by Stacey O'Brien
Animal Memoirs
413 books — 227 voters


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Erik Pevernagie
“ The day we decide to drop the flimsy makeshift scenarios in our cluttered mind and eschew the ‘alleluias’ of self-importance, life can become genuine, lucid and graceful, like a flow of wellness in the glow of a new morning. ("Words flew away like birds") ...more ”
― Erik Pevernagie

Eric Berne
“ The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing. ”
― Eric Berne

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