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Kingbird Highway: The Biggest Year in the Life of an Extreme Birder (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as birding)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,752 ratings — published 1997
The Big Year: A Tale of Man, Nature, and Fowl Obsession (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as birding)
avg rating 4.01 — 5,839 ratings — published 2003
The Sibley Guide to Birds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as birding)
avg rating 4.70 — 2,589 ratings — published 2000
National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as birding)
avg rating 4.43 — 2,561 ratings — published 1983
Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as birding)
avg rating 4.22 — 6,719 ratings — published 2023
Sibley's Birding Basics (Sibley Guides)
by (shelved 50 times as birding)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,019 ratings — published 2002
The Backyard Bird Chronicles (Flexibound)
by (shelved 42 times as birding)
avg rating 4.02 — 15,805 ratings — published 2024
The Genius of Birds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as birding)
avg rating 4.05 — 13,679 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 — 2,292 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 — 1,026 ratings — published 2005
Life List: A Woman's Quest for the World's Most Amazing Birds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as birding)
avg rating 3.85 — 1,068 ratings — published 2009
The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Eastern North America (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as birding)
avg rating 4.67 — 1,594 ratings — published 2003
The Sibley Guide to Bird Life & Behavior (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as birding)
avg rating 4.47 — 1,159 ratings — published 2001
The Birds That Audubon Missed: Discovery and Desire in the American Wilderness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as birding)
avg rating 4.11 — 870 ratings — published 2024
What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World's Most Enigmatic Birds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as birding)
avg rating 4.14 — 7,138 ratings — published 2023
Kaufman Field Guide to Advanced Birding: Understanding What You See and Hear (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as birding)
avg rating 4.48 — 296 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 — 3,761 ratings — published 2014
The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Western North America (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as birding)
avg rating 4.72 — 1,068 ratings — published 2003
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 — 617 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 — 1,895 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 20 times as birding)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,938 ratings — published 2024
Lost Among the Birds: Accidentally Finding Myself in One Very Big Year (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as birding)
avg rating 4.07 — 650 ratings — published 2016
Slow Birding: The Art and Science of Enjoying the Birds in Your Own Backyard (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as birding)
avg rating 3.68 — 921 ratings — published 2022
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 — 4,224 ratings — published 2020
What It's Like to Be a Bird: From Flying to Nesting, Eating to Singing—What Birds Are Doing, and Why (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as birding)
avg rating 4.42 — 2,516 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 — 752 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 – Epic Journeys, Urgent Threats, and the Fight for Bird Conservation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as birding)
avg rating 4.07 — 755 ratings — published 2019
H is for Hawk (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as birding)
avg rating 3.74 — 81,813 ratings — published 2014
The Life of Birds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as birding)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,976 ratings — published 1998
Birds of North America: A Guide to Field Identification (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as birding)
avg rating 4.29 — 841 ratings — published 1966
Of a Feather: A Brief History of American Birding (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as birding)
avg rating 4.07 — 444 ratings — published 2007
The Feather Quest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as birding)
avg rating 4.17 — 160 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 — 287 ratings — published 1988
Field Notes from an Unintentional Birder: A Memoir (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as birding)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,443 ratings — published 2020
The Warbler Guide (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 15 times as birding)
avg rating 4.71 — 299 ratings — published 2013
How to Be a (Bad) Birdwatcher
by (shelved 15 times as birding)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,071 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 4.22 — 434 ratings — published 2023
One Wild Bird At A Time: Portraits of Individual Lives (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as birding)
avg rating 3.88 — 1,159 ratings — published 2016
What the Robin Knows: How Birds Reveal the Secrets of the Natural World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as birding)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,674 ratings — published 2012
The Grail Bird: Hot on the Trail of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as birding)
avg rating 4.00 — 558 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 — 278 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 — 919 ratings — published 1999
A World on the Wing: The Global Odyssey of Migratory Birds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as birding)
avg rating 4.20 — 2,160 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 — 443 ratings — published 2019
Bird Sense: What It's Like to Be a Bird (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as birding)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,651 ratings — published 2012
Rare Encounters with Ordinary Birds: A Bird Book for Adults (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as birding)
avg rating 4.17 — 582 ratings — published 2001
The (Big) Year That Flew By
by (shelved 12 times as birding)
avg rating 3.83 — 497 ratings — published 2019
Flight Paths: How a Passionate and Quirky Group of Pioneering Scientists Solved the Mystery of Bird Migration (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as birding)
avg rating 4.07 — 768 ratings — published 2023
“A native landscape enters a child’s mind through a meld of sensations: the smell of seaweed or hay, the sound of cicadas, the cold grit of stone. It is all heart and magic, confusion rather than order, but the feeling it evokes is wholly satisfying and lasting. Gaining this kind of deep familiarity with a landscape other than your native one is like learning to speak a foreign language. You can’t hope for quick or easy fluency. You work from the outside in, by accumulating a vocabulary of observed details. You learn where things happen in the rhythmic revolutions of the days and the year, which shrubs harbor families of grackles, which stands of beach plum send out sprays of August bloom, where the hog-nose snake waits for its toad, and the toad for its fly. Slowly the strange becomes familiar; the familiar becomes precious.”
― Birds by the Shore: Observing the Natural Life of the Atlantic Coast
― Birds by the Shore: Observing the Natural Life of the Atlantic Coast
“The presence of a single bird can change everything for one who appreciates them.”
― Saving Jemima: Life and Love with a Hard-Luck Jay – The Emotional True Story of Rehabilitating an Orphaned Blue Jay
― Saving Jemima: Life and Love with a Hard-Luck Jay – The Emotional True Story of Rehabilitating an Orphaned Blue Jay
