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The Genius of Birds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 390 times as birds)
avg rating 4.04 — 14,205 ratings — published 2016
H is for Hawk (Hardcover)
by (shelved 291 times as birds)
avg rating 3.73 — 85,065 ratings — published 2014
The Backyard Bird Chronicles (Flexibound)
by (shelved 257 times as birds)
avg rating 4.02 — 17,865 ratings — published 2024
The Bird Way: A New Look at How Birds Talk, Work, Play, Parent, and Think (Hardcover)
by (shelved 193 times as birds)
avg rating 4.23 — 4,395 ratings — published 2020
The Thing with Feathers: The Surprising Lives of Birds and What They Reveal About Being Human (Hardcover)
by (shelved 173 times as birds)
avg rating 4.13 — 3,863 ratings — published 2014
Mind of the Raven (Paperback)
by (shelved 161 times as birds)
avg rating 4.00 — 4,351 ratings — published 1994
The Big Year: A Tale of Man, Nature, and Fowl Obsession (Paperback)
by (shelved 158 times as birds)
avg rating 4.01 — 5,951 ratings — published 2003
What It's Like to Be a Bird: From Flying to Nesting, Eating to Singing—What Birds Are Doing, and Why (Hardcover)
by (shelved 156 times as birds)
avg rating 4.42 — 2,602 ratings — published 2020
Kingbird Highway: The Biggest Year in the Life of an Extreme Birder (Paperback)
by (shelved 156 times as birds)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,859 ratings — published 1997
What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World's Most Enigmatic Birds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 153 times as birds)
avg rating 4.14 — 7,633 ratings — published 2023
Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 128 times as birds)
avg rating 4.22 — 7,086 ratings — published 2023
A Most Remarkable Creature: The Hidden Life and Epic Journey of the World’s Smartest Birds of Prey (Hardcover)
by (shelved 127 times as birds)
avg rating 4.16 — 3,110 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 — 2,380 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 — 6,614 ratings — published 2020
The Sibley Guide to Birds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 122 times as birds)
avg rating 4.70 — 2,610 ratings — published 2000
The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 118 times as birds)
avg rating 4.01 — 37,464 ratings — published 2018
What the Robin Knows: How Birds Reveal the Secrets of the Natural World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 116 times as birds)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,721 ratings — published 2012
A World on the Wing: The Global Odyssey of Migratory Birds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 113 times as birds)
avg rating 4.19 — 2,270 ratings — published 2021
Mel Fell (Hardcover)
by (shelved 110 times as birds)
avg rating 4.47 — 3,641 ratings — published 2021
Wesley the Owl: The Remarkable Love Story of an Owl and His Girl (Hardcover)
by (shelved 100 times as birds)
avg rating 4.13 — 13,559 ratings — published 2008
Vesper Flights (Hardcover)
by (shelved 96 times as birds)
avg rating 4.08 — 8,474 ratings — published 2020
National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America (Paperback)
by (shelved 94 times as birds)
avg rating 4.43 — 2,566 ratings — published 1983
Gifts of the Crow: How Perception, Emotion, and Thought Allow Smart Birds to Behave Like Humans (Hardcover)
by (shelved 94 times as birds)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,227 ratings — published 2012
Sibley's Birding Basics (Sibley Guides)
by (shelved 91 times as birds)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,049 ratings — published 2002
Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! (Pigeon, #1)
by (shelved 91 times as birds)
avg rating 4.33 — 107,141 ratings — published 2003
The Peregrine (Paperback)
by (shelved 86 times as birds)
avg rating 4.15 — 6,299 ratings — published 1967
Mozart's Starling (ebook)
by (shelved 85 times as birds)
avg rating 3.96 — 3,740 ratings — published 2017
One Wild Bird At A Time: Portraits of Individual Lives (Hardcover)
by (shelved 85 times as birds)
avg rating 3.88 — 1,182 ratings — published 2016
Hooray for Birds! (Hardcover)
by (shelved 84 times as birds)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,042 ratings — published 2017
Bird Sense: What It's Like to Be a Bird (Hardcover)
by (shelved 84 times as birds)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,674 ratings — published 2012
The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year (Hardcover)
by (shelved 82 times as birds)
avg rating 4.15 — 16,670 ratings — published 2023
The Sibley Guide to Bird Life & Behavior (Hardcover)
by (shelved 81 times as birds)
avg rating 4.47 — 1,162 ratings — published 2001
The Ravenmaster: My Life with the Ravens at the Tower of London (Hardcover)
by (shelved 80 times as birds)
avg rating 4.04 — 6,195 ratings — published 2018
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 80 times as birds)
avg rating 4.18 — 1,743 ratings — published 2010
Telephone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 79 times as birds)
avg rating 3.72 — 2,299 ratings — published 2014
The Life of Birds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 77 times as birds)
avg rating 4.42 — 2,167 ratings — published 1998
The Birds That Audubon Missed: Discovery and Desire in the American Wilderness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 76 times as birds)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,057 ratings — published 2024
The Hummingbirds' Gift: Wonder, Beauty, and Renewal on Wings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 76 times as birds)
avg rating 4.15 — 3,729 ratings — published 2021
Bird Brains: The Intelligence of Crows, Ravens, Magpies, and Jays (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as birds)
avg rating 4.13 — 984 ratings — published 1995
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 76 times as birds)
avg rating 4.11 — 10,284 ratings — published 2008
The Field Guide to Dumb Birds of North America (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as birds)
avg rating 4.01 — 5,801 ratings — published 2019
Owl Babies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 73 times as birds)
avg rating 4.21 — 18,026 ratings — published 1992
The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as birds)
avg rating 4.17 — 10,113 ratings — published 1994
Birding to Change the World: An Uplifting Memoir that Explores what Birds Can Teach us about Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 72 times as birds)
avg rating 4.32 — 2,246 ratings — published 2024
Migrations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 72 times as birds)
avg rating 4.10 — 115,948 ratings — published 2020
The Bedside Book of Birds: An Avian Miscellany (Hardcover)
by (shelved 72 times as birds)
avg rating 3.76 — 820 ratings — published 2005
Crow Planet: Essential Wisdom from the Urban Wilderness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 70 times as birds)
avg rating 3.75 — 2,913 ratings — published 2009
Rare Encounters with Ordinary Birds: A Bird Book for Adults (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as birds)
avg rating 4.18 — 594 ratings — published 2001
“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.”
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“In Our Woods, Sometimes a Rare Music
Every spring
I hear the thrush singing
in the glowing woods
he is only passing through.
His voice is deep,
then he lifts it until it seems
to fall from the sky.
I am thrilled.
I am grateful.
Then, by the end of morning,
he's gone, nothing but silence
out of the tree
where he rested for a night.
And this I find acceptable.
Not enough is a poor life.
But too much is, well, too much.
Imagine Verdi or Mahler
every day, all day.
It would exhaust anyone.”
― A Thousand Mornings: Poems
Every spring
I hear the thrush singing
in the glowing woods
he is only passing through.
His voice is deep,
then he lifts it until it seems
to fall from the sky.
I am thrilled.
I am grateful.
Then, by the end of morning,
he's gone, nothing but silence
out of the tree
where he rested for a night.
And this I find acceptable.
Not enough is a poor life.
But too much is, well, too much.
Imagine Verdi or Mahler
every day, all day.
It would exhaust anyone.”
― A Thousand Mornings: Poems
