19 must-read nonfiction books like The Glitter in the Green: In Search of Hummingbirds by Jon Dunn

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The Glitter in the Green: In Search of Hummingbirds

By: Jon Dunn

3.91

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Hummingbirds are a glittering, sparkling collective of over three hundred wildly variable species. …

If you liked the nonfiction plot in The Glitter in the Green: In Search of Hummingbirds by Jon Dunn , here is a list of 19 books like this:

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1. Kingbird Highway: The Biggest Year in the Life of an Extreme Birder

By: Kenn Kaufman

4.27

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

At sixteen, Kenn Kaufman dropped out of the high school where he was student council president and … read more

Similar categories in Kenn Kaufman's Kingbird Highway: The Biggest Year in the Life of an Extreme Birder book and Jon Dunn's The Glitter in the Green: In Search of Hummingbirds

  • travel
  • animals
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • birds
  • nature
  • science
"I could have sworn I saw some kind of mutual salute pass between Rich and the skua"

-Kenn Kaufman, Kingbird Highway: The Biggest Year in the Life of an Extreme Birder

"The list total isn't important, but the birds themselves are important. Every bird you see. So the list is just a frivolous incentive for birding, but the birding itself is worthwhile."

-Kenn Kaufman, Kingbird Highway: The Biggest Year in the Life of an Extreme Birder

"But in the early 1970s, we were not birdwatching. We were birding, and that made all the difference. We were out to seek, to discover, to chase, to learn, to find as many different kinds of birds as …"

-Kenn Kaufman, Kingbird Highway: The Biggest Year in the Life of an Extreme Birder

"We did not know that within twenty years Ted would be recognized as one of the greatest field ornithologists of all time, the ultimate authority on the ultimate bird continent. Mercifully, we did not…"

-Kenn Kaufman, Kingbird Highway: The Biggest Year in the Life of an Extreme Birder

2. The Genius of Birds

By: Jennifer Ackerman

3.84

Format: 640 pages, Hardcover

Birds are astonishingly intelligent creatures. According to revolutionary new research, some birds … read more

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3. Birding Without Borders: An Obsession, a Quest, and the Biggest Year in the World

By: Noah Strycker

4.00

Format: 131 pages, Hardcover

Traveling to 41 countries in 2015 with a backpack and binoculars, Noah Strycker became the first pe… read more

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4. Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet

By: Ben Goldfarb

4.45

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A New York Times Notable Book of 2023 and Editors' Choice • A Science News Favorite Book of 2023 • … read more

Similar categories in Ben Goldfarb's Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet book and Jon Dunn's The Glitter in the Green: In Search of Hummingbirds

  • nature
  • animals
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • science
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5. The Nature of Oaks: The Rich Ecology of Our Most Essential Native Trees

By: Douglas W. Tallamy

4.35

Format: 197 pages, Hardcover

“With our hearts and minds focused on the stewardship of the only planet we have, the best way to e… read more

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  • nature
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • science nature
  • environment
  • science
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6. A World on the Wing: The Global Odyssey of Migratory Birds

By: Scott Weidensaul

4.20

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

In the past two decades, our understanding of the navigational and physiological feats that enable … read more

Similar categories in Scott Weidensaul's A World on the Wing: The Global Odyssey of Migratory Birds book and Jon Dunn's The Glitter in the Green: In Search of Hummingbirds

  • nature
  • animals
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • birds
  • environment
  • ornithology
  • science
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7. The Secret Wisdom of Nature: Trees, Animals, and the Extraordinary Balance of All Living Things ― Stories from Science and Observation

By: Peter Wohlleben

4.06

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The final book in The Mysteries of Nature trilogy by the New York Times bestselling author of The H… read more

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  • nature
  • animals
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • science
"The more we acknowledge that even the smallest disturbance can lead to unpredictable changes, the stronger the arguments for protecting larger areas of the environment."

-Peter Wohlleben, The Secret Wisdom of Nature: Trees, Animals, and the Extraordinary Balance of All Living Things ― Stories from Science and Observation

"A whole generation of trees, including many that are deciduous, is standing by to form a solid foundation for the old-growth forest of the future, which means that bark beetles are more than just fun…"

-Peter Wohlleben, The Secret Wisdom of Nature: Trees, Animals, and the Extraordinary Balance of All Living Things ― Stories from Science and Observation

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8. Ten Birds That Changed the World

By: Stephen Moss

3.97

Format: 406 pages, Hardcover

For the whole of human history, we have lived alongside birds. We have hunted and domesticated them… read more

Similar categories in Stephen Moss's Ten Birds That Changed the World book and Jon Dunn's The Glitter in the Green: In Search of Hummingbirds

  • animals
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • birds
  • nature
  • science
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9. Owls of the Eastern Ice: A Quest to Find and Save the World's Largest Owl

By: Jonathan C. Slaght

4.18

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A field scientist and conservationist tracks the elusive Blakiston's Fish Owl in the forbidding rea… read more

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  • travel
  • animals
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • birds
  • environment
  • nature
  • science
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10. What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World's Most Enigmatic Birds

By: Jennifer Ackerman

4.16

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

An instant New York Times bestseller! From the author of The Genius of Birds and The Bird Way, a… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Ackerman's What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World's Most Enigmatic Birds book and Jon Dunn's The Glitter in the Green: In Search of Hummingbirds

  • animals
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • science nature
  • birds
  • environment
  • nature
  • science
Cover of Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World by Christian Cooper

11. Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World

By: Christian Cooper

4.25

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Central Park birder Christian Cooper takes us beyond the viral video th… read more

Similar categories in Christian Cooper's Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World book and Jon Dunn's The Glitter in the Green: In Search of Hummingbirds

  • birds
  • nonfiction
  • animals
  • nature
"Nor did I know back then that McCartney had written the song as an ode to Black women ("bird" being British slang for a pretty girl) at the pivotal moment of the civil rights struggle. That would onl…"

-Christian Cooper, Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World

"Writing a memoir is akin to taking off one's clothes in public, and as I learned years ago in the amateur strip contest as Darren and the go-go boys cheered me on, success at such an endeavor can onl…"

-Christian Cooper, Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World

"Beginning around 1910, The Great Migration saw some 6 million black people surge Northward, out of the states of the former Confederacy, spurred by the same thing that lies behind the yearly migratio…"

-Christian Cooper, Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World

"What makes birding such a phenomenon? Why not "mammaling" or insecting? Certainly those pursuits have their adherents, as the thousands who visit Africa on safari or who catalog butterflies can attes…"

-Christian Cooper, Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World

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12. Birding Under the Influence: Cycling Across America in Search of Birds and Recovery

By: Dorian Anderson

4.20

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

At a personal and professional crossroads, a man resets his life and finds sobriety, love, and 618 … read more

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  • travel
  • animals
  • nonfiction
  • birds
  • nature
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13. The Bird Way: A New Look at How Birds Talk, Work, Play, Parent, and Think

By: Jennifer Ackerman

4.22

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Genius of Birds, a radical investigation into the… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Ackerman's The Bird Way: A New Look at How Birds Talk, Work, Play, Parent, and Think book and Jon Dunn's The Glitter in the Green: In Search of Hummingbirds

  • nature
  • animals
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • birds
  • environment
  • ornithology
  • science
"We dig up dinosaurs to try and figure out what happened to them. Perhaps someday dinosaurs, in the form of corvids, will dig us up to figure out what happened to us."

-Jennifer Ackerman, The Bird Way: A New Look at How Birds Talk, Work, Play, Parent, and Think

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14. A Rome of One's Own: The Forgotten Women of the Roman Empire

By: Emma Southon

4.23

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum comes a wildly entertai… read more

Similar categories in Emma Southon's A Rome of One's Own: The Forgotten Women of the Roman Empire book and Jon Dunn's The Glitter in the Green: In Search of Hummingbirds

  • nonfiction
Cover of The Arbornaut: A Life Discovering the Eighth Continent in the Trees Above Us by Meg Lowman

15. The Arbornaut: A Life Discovering the Eighth Continent in the Trees Above Us

By: Meg Lowman

4.05

Format: 350 pages, Hardcover

Nicknamed the “Real-Life Lorax” by National Geographic, the biologist, botanist, and conservationis… read more

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  • nature
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • science
Cover of A Most Remarkable Creature: The Hidden Life and Epic Journey of the World’s Smartest Birds of Prey by Jonathan Meiburg

16. A Most Remarkable Creature: The Hidden Life and Epic Journey of the World’s Smartest Birds of Prey

By: Jonathan Meiburg

4.18

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

An enthralling account of a modern voyage of discovery as we meet the clever, social birds of prey … read more

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  • animals
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • birds
  • environment
  • nature
  • science
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17. Eight Bears: Mythic Past and Imperiled Future

By: Gloria Dickie

4.25

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A New Yorker Best Book of the Year An Economist Best Book of 2023 A Scientific American Best… read more

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  • travel
  • animals
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
  • science
"Whenever people had asked me which bear was my favorite, I had dithered and hedged. "I like them all equally," I would say, diplomatically. Sun bears were cute with lolling tongues. Grizzlies were em…"

-Gloria Dickie, Eight Bears: Mythic Past and Imperiled Future

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18. The Hawk's Way: Encounters with Fierce Beauty

By: Sy Montgomery

3.77

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

A splendid and luminous celebration of one of nature’s most perfect and mysterious creatures—the ha… read more

Similar categories in Sy Montgomery's The Hawk's Way: Encounters with Fierce Beauty book and Jon Dunn's The Glitter in the Green: In Search of Hummingbirds

  • animals
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • science nature
  • birds
  • nature
  • science
"Hawks do not play by our rules. You can never assume that a hawk, even one you raised from a chick, will forgive your mistakes—sometimes a single error ruptures the relationship forever. A hawk will …"

-Sy Montgomery, The Hawk's Way: Encounters with Fierce Beauty

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19. The Birds That Audubon Missed: Discovery and Desire in the American Wilderness

By: Kenn Kaufman

4.23

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Renowned naturalist Kenn Kaufman examines the scientific discoveries of John James Audubon and his … read more

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  • nature
  • animals
  • nonfiction
  • birds
  • environment
  • ornithology
  • science
Cover of The Glitter in the Green: In Search of Hummingbirds by Jon Dunn

20. The Glitter in the Green: In Search of Hummingbirds

By: Jon Dunn

3.91

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Hummingbirds are a glittering, sparkling collective of over three hundred wildly variable species. … read more

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  • travel
  • animals
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • science nature
  • ornithology
  • birds
  • environment
  • nature
  • science
Cover of Birds and Us: A 12,000 Year History, from Cave Art to Conservation by Tim Birkhead

21. Birds and Us: A 12,000 Year History, from Cave Art to Conservation

By: Tim Birkhead

3.85

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning writer and ornithologist Tim Birkhead takes us on an epic and dazzling journey throug… read more

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  • nature
  • animals
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • birds
  • ornithology
  • science

16 Top animals books like The Glitter in the Green: In Search of Hummingbirds by Jon Dunn

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Kingbird Highway: The Biggest Year in the Life of an Extreme Birder

Kenn Kaufman

4.27

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Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet

Ben Goldfarb

4.45

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A World on the Wing: The Global Odyssey of Migratory Birds

Scott Weidensaul

4.20

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The Secret Wisdom of Nature: Trees, Animals, and the Extraordinary Balance of All Living Things ― Stories from Science and Observation

Peter Wohlleben

4.06

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Margaret Renkl

4.37

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Amy Tan

4.14

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What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World's Most Enigmatic Birds

Jennifer Ackerman

4.16

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Trish O'Kane

4.42

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