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Birds Books
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The Genius of Birds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 387 times as birds)
avg rating 4.04 — 14,049 ratings — published 2016
H is for Hawk (Hardcover)
by (shelved 290 times as birds)
avg rating 3.74 — 84,126 ratings — published 2014
The Backyard Bird Chronicles (Flexibound)
by (shelved 244 times as birds)
avg rating 4.02 — 17,293 ratings — published 2024
The Bird Way: A New Look at How Birds Talk, Work, Play, Parent, and Think (Hardcover)
by (shelved 192 times as birds)
avg rating 4.23 — 4,347 ratings — published 2020
The Thing with Feathers: The Surprising Lives of Birds and What They Reveal About Being Human (Hardcover)
by (shelved 176 times as birds)
avg rating 4.13 — 3,839 ratings — published 2014
The Big Year: A Tale of Man, Nature, and Fowl Obsession (Paperback)
by (shelved 158 times as birds)
avg rating 4.01 — 5,914 ratings — published 2003
Mind of the Raven (Paperback)
by (shelved 158 times as birds)
avg rating 4.00 — 4,327 ratings — published 1994
What It's Like to Be a Bird: From Flying to Nesting, Eating to Singing—What Birds Are Doing, and Why (Hardcover)
by (shelved 153 times as birds)
avg rating 4.42 — 2,570 ratings — published 2020
Kingbird Highway: The Biggest Year in the Life of an Extreme Birder (Paperback)
by (shelved 153 times as birds)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,822 ratings — published 1997
What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World's Most Enigmatic Birds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 149 times as birds)
avg rating 4.14 — 7,502 ratings — published 2023
Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 126 times as birds)
avg rating 4.22 — 6,966 ratings — published 2023
A Most Remarkable Creature: The Hidden Life and Epic Journey of the World’s Smartest Birds of Prey (Hardcover)
by (shelved 126 times as birds)
avg rating 4.16 — 3,071 ratings — published 2021
Birding Without Borders: An Obsession, A Quest, and the Biggest Year in the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 125 times as birds)
avg rating 4.27 — 2,357 ratings — published 2017
Owls of the Eastern Ice: A Quest to Find and Save the World's Largest Owl (Hardcover)
by (shelved 123 times as birds)
avg rating 4.19 — 6,535 ratings — published 2020
The Sibley Guide to Birds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 121 times as birds)
avg rating 4.70 — 2,602 ratings — published 2000
What the Robin Knows: How Birds Reveal the Secrets of the Natural World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 118 times as birds)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,701 ratings — published 2012
The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 117 times as birds)
avg rating 4.01 — 36,884 ratings — published 2018
A World on the Wing: The Global Odyssey of Migratory Birds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 113 times as birds)
avg rating 4.19 — 2,235 ratings — published 2021
Birds: An Enchanting Story about a Girl Who Observes , Dreams, and Sings for Preschoolers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 111 times as birds)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,438 ratings — published 2009
Mel Fell (Hardcover)
by (shelved 109 times as birds)
avg rating 4.47 — 3,603 ratings — published 2021
Wesley the Owl: The Remarkable Love Story of an Owl and His Girl (Hardcover)
by (shelved 99 times as birds)
avg rating 4.12 — 13,443 ratings — published 2008
Vesper Flights (Hardcover)
by (shelved 95 times as birds)
avg rating 4.08 — 8,423 ratings — published 2020
National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America (Paperback)
by (shelved 94 times as birds)
avg rating 4.43 — 2,564 ratings — published 1983
Gifts of the Crow: How Perception, Emotion, and Thought Allow Smart Birds to Behave Like Humans (Hardcover)
by (shelved 92 times as birds)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,210 ratings — published 2012
Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! (Pigeon, #1)
by (shelved 91 times as birds)
avg rating 4.33 — 106,772 ratings — published 2003
Sibley's Birding Basics (Sibley Guides)
by (shelved 90 times as birds)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,035 ratings — published 2002
The Peregrine (Paperback)
by (shelved 85 times as birds)
avg rating 4.15 — 6,198 ratings — published 1967
Mozart's Starling (ebook)
by (shelved 85 times as birds)
avg rating 3.96 — 3,709 ratings — published 2017
One Wild Bird At A Time: Portraits of Individual Lives (Hardcover)
by (shelved 85 times as birds)
avg rating 3.88 — 1,171 ratings — published 2016
Hooray for Birds! (Hardcover)
by (shelved 83 times as birds)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,038 ratings — published 2017
Bird Sense: What It's Like to Be a Bird (Hardcover)
by (shelved 83 times as birds)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,667 ratings — published 2012
The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year (Hardcover)
by (shelved 81 times as birds)
avg rating 4.15 — 16,321 ratings — published 2023
Birdology: Adventures with a Pack of Hens, a Peck of Pigeons, Cantankerous Crows, Fierce Falcons, Hip Hop Parrots, Baby Hummingbirds, and One Murderously Big Living Dinosaur (Hardcover)
by (shelved 81 times as birds)
avg rating 4.18 — 1,740 ratings — published 2010
The Sibley Guide to Bird Life & Behavior (Hardcover)
by (shelved 81 times as birds)
avg rating 4.47 — 1,158 ratings — published 2001
The Ravenmaster: My Life with the Ravens at the Tower of London (Hardcover)
by (shelved 79 times as birds)
avg rating 4.04 — 6,158 ratings — published 2018
Telephone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 79 times as birds)
avg rating 3.72 — 2,294 ratings — published 2014
Alex & Me: How a Scientist and a Parrot Discovered a Hidden World of Animal Intelligence—and Formed a Deep Bond in the Process (Hardcover)
by (shelved 77 times as birds)
avg rating 4.11 — 10,195 ratings — published 2008
The Hummingbirds' Gift: Wonder, Beauty, and Renewal on Wings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 76 times as birds)
avg rating 4.15 — 3,680 ratings — published 2021
Bird Brains: The Intelligence of Crows, Ravens, Magpies, and Jays (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as birds)
avg rating 4.13 — 976 ratings — published 1995
The Life of Birds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 75 times as birds)
avg rating 4.42 — 2,108 ratings — published 1998
The Birds That Audubon Missed: Discovery and Desire in the American Wilderness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 74 times as birds)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,014 ratings — published 2024
The Field Guide to Dumb Birds of North America (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as birds)
avg rating 4.01 — 5,727 ratings — published 2019
Owl Babies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 73 times as birds)
avg rating 4.21 — 17,970 ratings — published 1992
Migrations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 72 times as birds)
avg rating 4.10 — 112,361 ratings — published 2020
Birding to Change the World: A Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 71 times as birds)
avg rating 4.32 — 2,150 ratings — published 2024
Rare Encounters with Ordinary Birds: A Bird Book for Adults (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as birds)
avg rating 4.17 — 588 ratings — published 2001
The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as birds)
avg rating 4.17 — 10,075 ratings — published 1994
The Bedside Book of Birds: An Avian Miscellany (Hardcover)
by (shelved 71 times as birds)
avg rating 3.76 — 817 ratings — published 2005
Birds Art Life: A Year of Observation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 70 times as birds)
avg rating 4.00 — 3,598 ratings — published 2017
“The bird dares to break the shell, then the shell breaks open and the bird can fly openly. This is the simplest principle of success. You dream, you dare and and you fly.”
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“I don’t know [why we're here]. People sometimes say to me, ‘Why don’t you admit that the humming bird, the butterfly, the Bird of Paradise are proof of the wonderful things produced by Creation?’ And I always say, well, when you say that, you’ve also got to think of a little boy sitting on a river bank, like here, in West Africa, that’s got a little worm, a living organism, in his eye and boring through the eyeball and is slowly turning him blind. The Creator God that you believe in, presumably, also made that little worm. Now I personally find that difficult to accommodate…”
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