Warblers & Woodpeckers: A Father-Son Big Year of Birding
By: Sneed B. Collard III
3.86
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
2018 Montana Book Awards Honor Book 2019 High Plains Book Awards Finalist in Creative Nonfiction “…
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1. The Thing with Feathers: The Surprising Lives of Birds and What They Reveal About Being Human
By: Noah Strycker
3.77
Format: None pages, Hardcover
An entertaining and profound look at the lives of birds, illuminating their surprising world--and d… read more
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2. Rosemary: The Hidden Kennedy Daughter
By: Kate Clifford Larson
3.30
Format: 215 pages, Hardcover
They were the most prominent American family of the twentieth century. The daughter they secreted a… read more
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3. The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World
By: Andrea Wulf
3.44
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The acclaimed author of Founding Gardeners reveals the forgotten life of Alexander von Humboldt, th… read more
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4. The Big Year: A Tale of Man, Nature, and Fowl Obsession
By: Mark Obmascik
3.47
Format: 185 pages,
For those who thought bird-watching was a sedate Sunday hobby, here comes the rollicking tale of th… read more
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5. The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World
By: Tim Flannery , Peter Wohlleben , Jane Billinghurst , Suzanne Simard
4.07
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
In The Hidden Life of Trees, Peter Wohlleben shares his deep love of woods and forests and explains… read more
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"A tree’s most important means of staying connected to other trees is a “wood wide web"-Tim Flannery, The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World
"Trees could solve the problems if people trying to improve things would only allow them to takeover"-Tim Flannery, The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World
"So many questions remain unanswered. Perhaps we are poorer for having lost a possible explanation or richer for having gained a mystery. But aren't both possibilities equally intriguing?"-Tim Flannery, The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World
6. H is for Hawk
By: Helen Macdonald
3.65
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Obsession, madness, memory, myth, and history combine to achieve a distinctive blend of nature writ… read more
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7. 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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8. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
By: Robin Wall Kimmerer
4.04
Format: 226 pages, Hardcover
As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer as been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of sci… read more
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9. Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses
By: Robin Wall Kimmerer
3.87
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
In this series of linked personal essays, Robin Wall Kimmerer leads general readers and scientists … read more
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10. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
By: Michael Chabon
3.95
Format: None pages,
Joe Kavalier, a young Jewish artist who has also been trained in the art of Houdini-esque escape, h… read more
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11. Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law
By: Mary Roach
3.84
Format: 308 pages, Hardcover
What’s to be done about a jaywalking moose? A bear caught breaking and entering? A murderous tree? … read more
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"The black bear is a ridiculously lovable species. There's a reason kids have teddy bears, not teddy goats or teddy eels."-Mary Roach, Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law
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"So I’m curious, how far does the Pope think we should go in the direction of respecting and correcting the natural world and it’s wild inhabitants. Before I arrived the PIL media manager sent me a co…"-Mary Roach, Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law
"We are irrational in our species-specific devotions. I know a man who won’t eat octopus because of its intelligence. Yet he eats pork and buys glue traps for rats, though rats and pigs are highly in…"-Mary Roach, Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law
12. The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year
By: Margaret Renkl
4.37
Format: 270 pages, Hardcover
From the beloved New York Times opinion writer and bestselling author of Late Migrations comes a “h… read more
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13. Vesper Flights
By: Helen Macdonald
4.10
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Animals don't exist in order to teach us things, but that is what they have always done, and most … read more
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"There's a special phenomenology to walking in woods in winter."-Helen Macdonald, Vesper Flights
"We call them murmurations, but the Danish term, sort sol , is better: black sun."-Helen Macdonald, Vesper Flights
"For even if we don't believe in miracles, they are there, and they are waiting for us to find them."-Helen Macdonald, Vesper Flights
"(P)ulling at your heart on purpose is a compulsion as particular and disconcerting as pressing on a healing bruise."-Helen Macdonald, Vesper Flights
14. The Backyard Bird Chronicles
By: Amy Tan
4.14
Format: 320 pages, Flexibound
A gorgeous, witty account of birding, nature, and the beauty around us that hides in plain sight. … read more
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"If there is anything I have learned these past six years, it is this: Each bird is surprising and thrilling in its own way. But the most special is the bird that pauses when it is eating, looks and a…"-Amy Tan, The Backyard Bird Chronicles
"The (Anna's Hummingbird) males are deadbeat dads that contribute nothing to making the nest, or to feeding either the female or the nestlings. They are off to find other females they can impress with…"-Amy Tan, The Backyard Bird Chronicles
"During daylight hours, they (Anna's Hummingbirds) feed every 15 minutes, be it tiny insects or nectar from flowers or feeders. If they don't consume food often enough, they can die during the day. If…"-Amy Tan, The Backyard Bird Chronicles
"I asked Bernd Heinrich if he knew why feeder birds, like finches, discard so many seeds. It turns out he and other scientiests did research on this back in the 1990s - of course, he did -measuring di…"-Amy Tan, The Backyard Bird Chronicles
15. How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures
By: Sabrina Imbler
4.12
Format: 263 pages, Hardcover
A queer, mixed race writer working in a largely white, male field, science and conservation journal… read more
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- nonfiction
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"But when I think about ponds infested with gallon-big goldfish, I feel a kind of triumph. I see something that no one expected to live not just alive but impossibly flourishing, and no longer alone. …"-Sabrina Imbler, How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures
16. The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
By: Steve Brusatte
4.20
Format: 404 pages, Hardcover
The dinosaurs. Sixty-six million years ago, the Earth’s most fearsome creatures vanished. Today the… read more
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"There is a dinosaur outside my window. I'm watching it as I write this."-Steve Brusatte, The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
"The Great Hall of Dinosaurs at Yale's Peabody Museum may not bill itself as a place of spiritual pilgrimage, but that's sure what it feels like to me."-Steve Brusatte, The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
"...let's not forget about those birds--they are dinosaurs, they survived, they are still with us. The dinosaur empire may be over, but the dinosaurs remain."-Steve Brusatte, The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
"...another trove of spectacular fossils, found in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia...provide unprecedented insight into the lifestyles of dinosaurs and early birds."-Steve Brusatte, The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
17. Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
By: Suzanne Simard
4.22
Format: 348 pages, Hardcover
From the world's leading forest ecologist who forever changed how people view trees and their conne… read more
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- memoir
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"Plants are attuned to one another's strengths and weaknesses, elegantly giving and taking to attain exquisite balance. There is grace in complexity, in actions cohering, in sum totals."-Suzanne Simard, Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
"Such a marvel, the tenacity of the buds to surge with life every spring, to greet the lengthening days and warming weather with exuberance, no matter what hardships were brought by winter."-Suzanne Simard, Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
"This Mother Tree was the central hub that the saplings and seedlings nested around, with threads of different fungal species, of different colors and weights, linking them, layer upon layer, in a str…"-Suzanne Simard, Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
"I was lucky to become one of the first in the new generation of women in the logging industry, but what I found was not what I had grown up to understand. Instead I discovered vast landscapes cleared…"-Suzanne Simard, Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
18. This Other Eden
By: Paul Harding
3.78
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Set at the beginning of the twentieth century and inspired by historical events, This Other Eden te… read more
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19. An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
By: Ed Yong
4.47
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
A grand tour through the hidden realms of animal senses that will transform the way you perceive th… read more
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"It's ironic that we associate taste with connoisseurship, subtlety, and fine discrimination when it is among the coarsest of senses."-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
"We are closer than ever to understanding what it is like to be another animal, but we have made it harder than ever for other animals to be."-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
"Earth teems with sights and textures, sounds and vibrations, smells and tastes, electric and magnetic fields. But every animal can only tap into a small fraction of realities fullness. Each is enclos…"-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
"A striking pattern emerged on days with the most intense solar storms, grey whales were 4 times more likely to beach themselves. This correlation doesn't prove that whales have a compass but it stron…"-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
20. The White Lady
By: Jacqueline Winspear
4.07
Format: 321 pages, Hardcover
The White Lady introduces yet another extraordinary heroine/sleuth from Jacqueline Winspear, creato… read more
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"Give me strong young womenfolk with sharp elbows, Charlotte, my dear, and they will make a good account of themselves in this world."-Jacqueline Winspear, The White Lady
"And then there's that double-barreled name a lot of them toffs have, like they have to drag their ancestors up from the grave so we all know who they're related to."-Jacqueline Winspear, The White Lady
". . . it was known German soldiers would go door-to-door to take males of working age, or boys on the cusp of manhood. They always took the men, leaving only the women, children and elderly. Women we…"-Jacqueline Winspear, The White Lady
21. 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
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- nonfiction
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22. A Stroke of the Pen
By: Terry Pratchett
4.03
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Far away and long ago, when dragons still existed and the only arcade game was ping-pong in black a… read more
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"Dragons Invade The Crumbling Castle Area,’ shouted the first page (this was the headline), and then he said in an ordinary voice: ‘For full details hear Page Three."-Terry Pratchett, A Stroke of the Pen
23. Birding to Change the World: A Memoir
By: Trish O'Kane
4.42
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
In this uplifting memoir, a professor and activist shares what birds can teach us about life, socia… read more
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24. Flight Paths: How a Passionate and Quirky Group of Pioneering Scientists Solved the Mystery of Bird Migration
By: Rebecca Heisman
4.08
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The captivating, little-known true story of a group of scientists and the methods and technology th… read more
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25. Tell Me Everything (Amgash, #5)
By: Elizabeth Strout
4.46
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From Pulitzer Prize–winning author Elizabeth Strout comes a hopeful, healing novel about new friend… read more
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- adult
"...Bob caught a glimpse of himself in the store window that was right there. He was startled. Who was that tall older man? Was that him? A sense of bewilderment came to him. He turned away, then turn…"-Elizabeth Strout, Tell Me Everything (Amgash, #5)
26. Field Notes from an Unintentional Birder: A Memoir
By: Julia Zarankin
3.82
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
A writer discovers an unexpected passion for birding, along with a new understanding of the world a… read more
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27. Bird Brother: A Falconer's Journey and the Healing Power of Wildlife
By: Rodney Stotts
4.32
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
To escape the tough streets of Southeast Washington, D.C. in the late 1980s, young Rodney Stotts wo… read more
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28. Warblers & Woodpeckers: A Father-Son Big Year of Birding
By: Sneed B. Collard III
3.86
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
2018 Montana Book Awards Honor Book 2019 High Plains Book Awards Finalist in Creative Nonfiction “… read more
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- nonfiction
- birds
- adult
- nature
29. Falcon Freeway: A Big Year of Birding on a Budget
By: Christian Hagenlocher
4.04
Format: 362 pages, Paperback
When Christian Hagenlocher left home to go birding in January he had little confidence it would evo… read more
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30. Binge Birding: Twenty Days with Binoculars
By: Nancy Grant
3.63
Format: 346 pages, Paperback
Enjoy the thrill of discovery with journalist Nancy Grant as she looks for birds during spring migr… read more
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31. Extreme Birding: My Biking Big Year in the Era of COVID-19
By: Beau Schaefer
3.80
Format: 294 pages, Kindle Edition
Extreme Birding takes one on the myriad adventures of an avid birder and his quest to find as many … read more
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