42 books
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9 voters
Birding Books
Showing 1-50 of 1,855
Kingbird Highway: The Biggest Year in the Life of an Extreme Birder (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as birding)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,780 ratings — published 1997
The Big Year: A Tale of Man, Nature, and Fowl Obsession (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as birding)
avg rating 4.01 — 5,874 ratings — published 2003
The Sibley Guide to Birds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as birding)
avg rating 4.70 — 2,594 ratings — published 2000
Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as birding)
avg rating 4.23 — 6,835 ratings — published 2023
National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as birding)
avg rating 4.43 — 2,562 ratings — published 1983
Sibley's Birding Basics (Sibley Guides)
by (shelved 49 times as birding)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,026 ratings — published 2002
The Backyard Bird Chronicles (Flexibound)
by (shelved 45 times as birding)
avg rating 4.02 — 16,501 ratings — published 2024
The Genius of Birds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as birding)
avg rating 4.04 — 13,826 ratings — published 2016
Birding Without Borders: An Obsession, A Quest, and the Biggest Year in the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as birding)
avg rating 4.27 — 2,321 ratings — published 2017
To See Every Bird on Earth: A Father, a Son, and a Lifetime Obsession (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as birding)
avg rating 3.72 — 1,031 ratings — published 2005
The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Eastern North America (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as birding)
avg rating 4.67 — 1,596 ratings — published 2003
Life List: A Woman's Quest for the World's Most Amazing Birds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as birding)
avg rating 3.85 — 1,074 ratings — published 2009
The Birds That Audubon Missed: Discovery and Desire in the American Wilderness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as birding)
avg rating 4.10 — 934 ratings — published 2024
The Sibley Guide to Bird Life & Behavior (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as birding)
avg rating 4.47 — 1,160 ratings — published 2001
What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World's Most Enigmatic Birds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as birding)
avg rating 4.14 — 7,303 ratings — published 2023
The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Western North America (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as birding)
avg rating 4.72 — 1,071 ratings — published 2003
Kaufman Field Guide to Advanced Birding: Understanding What You See and Hear (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as birding)
avg rating 4.48 — 297 ratings — published 1990
The Thing with Feathers: The Surprising Lives of Birds and What They Reveal About Being Human (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as birding)
avg rating 4.14 — 3,792 ratings — published 2014
Good Birders Don't Wear White: 50 Tips From North America's Top Birders (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as birding)
avg rating 3.81 — 618 ratings — published 2007
A Field Guide to the Birds of Eastern and Central North America (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as birding)
avg rating 4.44 — 1,899 ratings — published 1980
Birds of North America (Kaufman Focus Guides)
by (shelved 22 times as birding)
avg rating 4.45 — 472 ratings — published 2000
Birding to Change the World: A Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as birding)
avg rating 4.32 — 2,041 ratings — published 2024
Slow Birding: The Art and Science of Enjoying the Birds in Your Own Backyard (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as birding)
avg rating 3.69 — 937 ratings — published 2022
What It's Like to Be a Bird: From Flying to Nesting, Eating to Singing—What Birds Are Doing, and Why (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as birding)
avg rating 4.42 — 2,539 ratings — published 2020
Lost Among the Birds: Accidentally Finding Myself in One Very Big Year (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as birding)
avg rating 4.07 — 653 ratings — published 2016
The Bird Way: A New Look at How Birds Talk, Work, Play, Parent, and Think (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as birding)
avg rating 4.23 — 4,285 ratings — published 2020
A Supremely Bad Idea: Three Mad Birders and Their Quest to See It All (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as birding)
avg rating 3.62 — 751 ratings — published 2008
The Shorebird Guide (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as birding)
avg rating 4.66 — 172 ratings — published 2006
A Season On The Wind: Inside the World of Spring Migration (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as birding)
avg rating 4.07 — 761 ratings — published 2019
H is for Hawk (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as birding)
avg rating 3.74 — 82,789 ratings — published 2014
Field Notes from an Unintentional Birder: A Memoir (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as birding)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,479 ratings — published 2020
The Life of Birds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as birding)
avg rating 4.41 — 2,022 ratings — published 1998
Birds of North America: A Guide to Field Identification (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as birding)
avg rating 4.29 — 842 ratings — published 1966
Of a Feather: A Brief History of American Birding (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as birding)
avg rating 4.07 — 446 ratings — published 2007
The Feather Quest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as birding)
avg rating 4.17 — 161 ratings — published 1992
Hawks in Flight: The Flight Identification of North American Migrant Raptors (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as birding)
avg rating 4.40 — 286 ratings — published 1988
The Warbler Guide (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 15 times as birding)
avg rating 4.71 — 301 ratings — published 2013
What the Robin Knows: How Birds Reveal the Secrets of the Natural World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as birding)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,687 ratings — published 2012
How to Be a (Bad) Birdwatcher
by (shelved 15 times as birding)
avg rating 3.98 — 1,082 ratings — published 2004
Birding Under the Influence: Cycling Across America in Search of Birds and Recovery (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as birding)
avg rating 4.21 — 456 ratings — published 2023
One Wild Bird At A Time: Portraits of Individual Lives (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as birding)
avg rating 3.88 — 1,164 ratings — published 2016
The Grail Bird: Hot on the Trail of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as birding)
avg rating 4.00 — 560 ratings — published 2005
Birder's Handbook: A Field Guide to the Natural History of North American Birds (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as birding)
avg rating 4.43 — 279 ratings — published 1988
Collins Bird Guide: The Most Complete Guide to the Birds of Britain and Europe (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as birding)
avg rating 4.71 — 926 ratings — published 1999
A World on the Wing: The Global Odyssey of Migratory Birds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as birding)
avg rating 4.19 — 2,189 ratings — published 2021
How to Know the Birds: The Art and Adventure of Birding (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as birding)
avg rating 3.92 — 446 ratings — published 2019
Bird Sense: What It's Like to Be a Bird (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as birding)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,658 ratings — published 2012
Rare Encounters with Ordinary Birds: A Bird Book for Adults (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as birding)
avg rating 4.17 — 584 ratings — published 2001
Birding with Benefits (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as birding)
avg rating 3.58 — 19,867 ratings — published 2024
The (Big) Year That Flew By
by (shelved 12 times as birding)
avg rating 3.83 — 507 ratings — published 2019
“The suburbs can seem anti-septic. Nature mowed and manicure to Better Homes and Gardens conformity. But wild things roam there that can't be tamed.”
― Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World
― Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World
“Some people are very competitive in their birding. Maybe they'll die happy, having seen a thousand species before they die, but I'll die happy knowing I've spent all that quiet time being present.”
― Birding with Yeats: A Mother's Memoir
― Birding with Yeats: A Mother's Memoir












