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The Big Year: A Tale of Man, Nature, and Fowl Obsession (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as birding)
avg rating 4.01 — 5,787 ratings — published 2003
Kingbird Highway: The Biggest Year in the Life of an Extreme Birder (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as birding)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,717 ratings — published 1997
The Sibley Guide to Birds (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as birding)
avg rating 4.70 — 2,582 ratings — published 2000
National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as birding)
avg rating 4.43 — 2,557 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 4.23 — 6,617 ratings — published 2023
Sibley's Birding Basics (Sibley Guides)
by (shelved 49 times as birding)
avg rating 4.25 — 1,007 ratings — published 2002
The Backyard Bird Chronicles (Flexibound)
by (shelved 42 times as birding)
avg rating 4.02 — 15,058 ratings — published 2024
The Genius of Birds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as birding)
avg rating 4.05 — 13,522 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 — 2,264 ratings — published 2017
To See Every Bird on Earth: A Father, a Son, and a Lifetime Obsession (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as birding)
avg rating 3.72 — 1,015 ratings — published 2005
The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Eastern North America (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as birding)
avg rating 4.67 — 1,584 ratings — published 2003
Life List: A Woman's Quest for the World's Most Amazing Birds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as birding)
avg rating 3.85 — 1,065 ratings — published 2009
The Sibley Guide to Bird Life & Behavior (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as birding)
avg rating 4.47 — 1,157 ratings — published 2001
The Birds That Audubon Missed: Discovery and Desire in the American Wilderness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as birding)
avg rating 4.11 — 799 ratings — published 2024
What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World's Most Enigmatic Birds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as birding)
avg rating 4.14 — 6,967 ratings — published 2023
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 — 3,733 ratings — published 2014
The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Western North America (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as birding)
avg rating 4.71 — 1,066 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 — 614 ratings — published 2007
Kaufman Field Guide to Advanced Birding: Understanding What You See and Hear (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as birding)
avg rating 4.48 — 294 ratings — published 1990
A Field Guide to the Birds of Eastern and Central North America (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as birding)
avg rating 4.44 — 1,891 ratings — published 1980
Birds of North America (Kaufman Focus Guides)
by (shelved 22 times as birding)
avg rating 4.45 — 472 ratings — published 2000
Lost Among the Birds: Accidentally Finding Myself in One Very Big Year (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as birding)
avg rating 4.07 — 647 ratings — published 2016
Birding to Change the World: A Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as birding)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,836 ratings — published 2024
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 — 4,164 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 — 2,483 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
Slow Birding: The Art and Science of Enjoying the Birds in Your Own Backyard (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as birding)
avg rating 3.68 — 890 ratings — published 2022
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 — 749 ratings — published 2019
The Shorebird Guide (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as birding)
avg rating 4.66 — 172 ratings — published 2006
H is for Hawk (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as birding)
avg rating 3.74 — 80,688 ratings — published 2014
Birds of North America: A Guide to Field Identification (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as birding)
avg rating 4.29 — 835 ratings — published 1966
Of a Feather: A Brief History of American Birding (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as birding)
avg rating 4.07 — 442 ratings — published 2007
Hawks in Flight: The Flight Identification of North American Migrant Raptors (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as birding)
avg rating 4.39 — 284 ratings — published 1988
The Warbler Guide (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 15 times as birding)
avg rating 4.71 — 299 ratings — published 2013
The Life of Birds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as birding)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,921 ratings — published 1998
One Wild Bird At A Time: Portraits of Individual Lives (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as birding)
avg rating 3.88 — 1,153 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 — 1,664 ratings — published 2012
How to Be a (Bad) Birdwatcher
by (shelved 14 times as birding)
avg rating 3.98 — 1,063 ratings — published 2004
The Feather Quest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as birding)
avg rating 4.17 — 159 ratings — published 1992
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
Birding Under the Influence: Cycling Across America in Search of Birds and Recovery (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as birding)
avg rating 4.21 — 414 ratings — published 2023
A World on the Wing: The Global Odyssey of Migratory Birds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as birding)
avg rating 4.20 — 2,135 ratings — published 2021
Field Notes from an Unintentional Birder: A Memoir (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as birding)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,417 ratings — published 2020
Bird Sense: What It's Like to Be a Bird (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as birding)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,643 ratings — published 2012
Rare Encounters with Ordinary Birds: A Bird Book for Adults (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as birding)
avg rating 4.17 — 577 ratings — published 2001
Birding with Benefits (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as birding)
avg rating 3.59 — 17,823 ratings — published 2024
The (Big) Year That Flew By
by (shelved 12 times as birding)
avg rating 3.83 — 482 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 4.08 — 740 ratings — published 2023
How to Know the Birds: The Art and Adventure of Birding (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as birding)
avg rating 3.93 — 437 ratings — published 2019
“How do you describe how the presence of a creature can take you outside yourself, to a most exalted place?”
― 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
“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
