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Ornithology Books
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The Genius of Birds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.04 — 13,214 ratings — published 2016
The Bird Way: A New Look at How Birds Talk, Work, Play, Parent, and Think (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.23 — 4,039 ratings — published 2020
The Sibley Guide to Birds (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.70 — 2,567 ratings — published 2000
The Thing with Feathers: The Surprising Lives of Birds and What They Reveal About Being Human (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.14 — 3,683 ratings — published 2014
Bird Sense: What It's Like to Be a Bird (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,630 ratings — published 2012
What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World's Most Enigmatic Birds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.14 — 6,564 ratings — published 2023
Handbook of Bird Biology (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.65 — 184 ratings — published 2004
Mind of the Raven (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.01 — 4,149 ratings — published 1994
What the Robin Knows: How Birds Reveal the Secrets of the Natural World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,642 ratings — published 2012
H is for Hawk (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as ornithology)
avg rating 3.74 — 79,604 ratings — published 2014
Ornithology (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.33 — 238 ratings — published 1989
The Bird: A Natural History of Who Birds Are, Where They Came From & How They Live (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.08 — 412 ratings — published 2008
What It's Like to Be a Bird: From Flying to Nesting, Eating to Singing—What Birds Are Doing, and Why (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.42 — 2,423 ratings — published 2020
Kaufman Field Guide to Advanced Birding: Understanding What You See and Hear (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.48 — 289 ratings — published 1990
The Life of Birds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,797 ratings — published 1998
The Sibley Guide to Bird Life & Behavior (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.47 — 1,156 ratings — published 2001
Manual of Ornithology: Avian Structure and Function (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.54 — 119 ratings — published 1993
National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.42 — 2,545 ratings — published 1983
The Bedside Book of Birds: An Avian Miscellany (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as ornithology)
avg rating 3.77 — 787 ratings — published 2005
The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Eastern North America (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.67 — 1,572 ratings — published 2003
Feathers: The Evolution of a Natural Miracle (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,814 ratings — published 2001
Bird Brains: The Intelligence of Crows, Ravens, Magpies, and Jays (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.12 — 948 ratings — published 1995
The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Western North America (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.71 — 1,056 ratings — published 2003
A World on the Wing: The Global Odyssey of Migratory Birds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.20 — 2,074 ratings — published 2021
Ten Thousand Birds: Ornithology since Darwin (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.27 — 56 ratings — published 2014
The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.17 — 9,850 ratings — published 1994
A Field Guide to Western Birds: A Completely New Guide to Field Marks of All Species Found in North America West of the 100th Meridian and North of Mexico (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.41 — 542 ratings — published 1941
Birds and Us: A 12,000 Year History, from Cave Art to Conservation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as ornithology)
avg rating 3.83 — 607 ratings — published 2022
The Backyard Bird Chronicles (Flexibound)
by (shelved 9 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.02 — 13,735 ratings — published 2024
The Peregrine (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.15 — 5,709 ratings — published 1967
Sibley's Birding Basics (Sibley Guides)
by (shelved 9 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.25 — 990 ratings — published 2002
A Most Remarkable Creature: The Hidden Life and Epic Journey of the World’s Smartest Birds of Prey (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.17 — 2,809 ratings — published 2021
The Most Perfect Thing: Inside and Outside a Bird's Egg (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.00 — 518 ratings — published 2016
Gifts of the Crow: How Perception, Emotion, and Thought Allow Smart Birds to Behave Like Humans (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as ornithology)
avg rating 3.95 — 2,024 ratings — published 2012
A Field Guide to the Birds of Eastern and Central North America (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.44 — 1,885 ratings — published 1980
Kingbird Highway: The Biggest Year in the Life of an Extreme Birder (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.29 — 2,647 ratings — published 1997
Collins Bird Guide: The Most Complete Guide to the Birds of Britain and Europe (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.70 — 895 ratings — published 1999
Owls of the Eastern Ice: A Quest to Find and Save the World's Largest Owl (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.19 — 6,131 ratings — published 2020
The Warbler Guide (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.70 — 299 ratings — published 2013
The Unfeathered Bird (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.62 — 111 ratings — published 2012
The Singing Life of Birds: The Art and Science of Listening to Birdsong (with CD)
by (shelved 7 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.25 — 266 ratings — published 2005
Living on the Wind: Across the Hemisphere With Migratory Birds (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.41 — 576 ratings — published 1999
Ravens in Winter (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,050 ratings — published 1989
The Shorebird Guide (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.66 — 171 ratings — published 2006
The Birds That Audubon Missed: Discovery and Desire in the American Wilderness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.11 — 709 ratings — published 2024
The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.01 — 34,224 ratings — published 2018
One Wild Bird At A Time: Portraits of Individual Lives (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as ornithology)
avg rating 3.88 — 1,138 ratings — published 2016
Crow Planet: Essential Wisdom from the Urban Wilderness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as ornithology)
avg rating 3.75 — 2,697 ratings — published 2009
Why Birds Sing: A Journey Into the Mystery of Bird Song (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as ornithology)
avg rating 3.53 — 201 ratings — published 2005
Wesley the Owl: The Remarkable Love Story of an Owl and His Girl (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as ornithology)
avg rating 4.10 — 12,535 ratings — published 2008
“Facts swooped like swallows, darting across her mind; there was a rush of pride in things still remembered. Singing was limited to the perching birds, the order Passeriformes. Nearly half the birds in the world didn't sing, but they still used sound to communicate- calls as opposed to song. Most birds had between five and fifteen distinct calls in their repertoire; alarm and territorial defense calls, distress calls from juveniles to bring an adult to the rescue, flight calls to keep the flock coordinated, even separate calls for commencing and ending flight. Nest calls. Feeding calls. Pleasure calls. Some chicks used calls to communicate with their mothers while they were still in the egg.”
― The Gravity of Birds
― The Gravity of Birds
“There are still many unsolved problems about bird life, among which are the age that birds attain, the exact time at which some birds acquire their adult dress, and the changes which occur in this with years. Little, too, is known about the laws and routes of bird migration, and much less about the final disposition of the untold thousands which are annually produced.”
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