5 Best natural history books like Birdsong for the Curious Naturalist: Your Guide to Listening by Donald Kroodsma

Cover of Birdsong for the Curious Naturalist: Your Guide to Listening by Donald Kroodsma

Birdsong for the Curious Naturalist: Your Guide to Listening

By: Donald Kroodsma

4.54

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Birdsong made easy to understand, lavishly illustrated with color photos, and accompanied by more t…

If you liked the natural history plot in Birdsong for the Curious Naturalist: Your Guide to Listening by Donald Kroodsma , here is a list of 5 books like this:

1. That Quail, Robert

By: Margaret A. Stanger

3.94

Format: 322 pages, Paperback

The perennially bestselling and acclaimed classic of the little bird who preferred human companions… read more

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2. Feathers: The Evolution of a Natural Miracle

By: Thor Hanson

3.15

Format: 252 pages, Hardcover

Feathers are an evolutionary marvel: aerodynamic, insulating, beguiling. They date back more than 1… read more

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Cover of Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures by Merlin Sheldrake

3. Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

By: Merlin Sheldrake

4.35

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

There is a lifeform so strange and wondrous that it forces us to rethink how life works…Neither pla… read more

Similar categories in Merlin Sheldrake's Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures book and Donald Kroodsma's Birdsong for the Curious Naturalist: Your Guide to Listening

  • nature
  • nonfiction
  • natural history
  • science
"I have tried to find ways to enjoy the ambiguities that fungi present, but it's not always easy to be comfortable in the space created by open questions. Agoraphobia can set in. It's tempting to hide…"

-Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

"Anthropomorphism is usually thought of as an illusion that arises like a blister in soft human minds: untrained, undisciplined, unhardened. There are good reasons for this: when we humanise the world…"

-Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

"Fungi make worlds. They also unmake them. There are lots of ways to catch them in the act. When you cook mushroom soup, or just eat it. When you go out gathering mushrooms, or buy them. When you ferm…"

-Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

Cover of What If? 2: Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions (What If?, #2) by Randall Munroe

4. What If? 2: Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions (What If?, #2)

By: Randall Munroe

4.37

Format: 354 pages, Hardcover

The #1 New York Times–bestselling author of What If? and How To provides his best answers yet to th… read more

Similar categories in Randall Munroe's What If? 2: Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions (What If?, #2) book and Donald Kroodsma's Birdsong for the Curious Naturalist: Your Guide to Listening

  • nonfiction
  • science
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5. 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

Similar categories in Ed Yong's An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us book and Donald Kroodsma's Birdsong for the Curious Naturalist: Your Guide to Listening

  • nature
  • nonfiction
  • natural history
  • science
"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

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6. Stone Blind

By: Natalie Haynes

3.82

Format: 373 pages, Hardcover

A fresh take on the story of Medusa, the original monstered woman. They will fear you and flee y… read more

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"Then look."

-Natalie Haynes, Stone Blind

"The sea gods keep their secrets deep; they always have."

-Natalie Haynes, Stone Blind

"There is one question that devours me still. Why didn’t I close my eyes?"

-Natalie Haynes, Stone Blind

"And the monster? Who is she? She is what happens when someone cannot be saved."

-Natalie Haynes, Stone Blind

Cover of The Chaos Machine: The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World by Max Fisher

7. The Chaos Machine: The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World

By: Max Fisher

4.29

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

From a New York Times investigative reporter and Pulitzer Prize finalist, “an essential book for ou… read more

Similar categories in Max Fisher's The Chaos Machine: The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World book and Donald Kroodsma's Birdsong for the Curious Naturalist: Your Guide to Listening

  • nonfiction
  • science
"Remember that the number of seconds in your day never changes. The amount of social media content competing for those seconds, however, doubles every year or so, depending on how you measure it. Imag…"

-Max Fisher, The Chaos Machine: The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World

Cover of Pests: How Humans Create Animal Villains by Bethany Brookshire

8. Pests: How Humans Create Animal Villains

By: Bethany Brookshire

4.03

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

An engrossing and revealing study of why we deem certain animals “pests” and others not—from cats t… read more

Similar categories in Bethany Brookshire's Pests: How Humans Create Animal Villains book and Donald Kroodsma's Birdsong for the Curious Naturalist: Your Guide to Listening

  • nature
  • nonfiction
  • natural history
  • science
Cover of Empire of Ants: The Hidden  World and Extraordinary Lives of Earth's Tiny Conquerors by Susanne Foitzik

9. Empire of Ants: The Hidden World and Extraordinary Lives of Earth's Tiny Conquerors

By: Susanne Foitzik

4.19

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

Beneath our feet, a fascinating drama unfolds: Ants are waging war and staging rebellions, growing … read more

Similar categories in Susanne Foitzik's Empire of Ants: The Hidden World and Extraordinary Lives of Earth's Tiny Conquerors book and Donald Kroodsma's Birdsong for the Curious Naturalist: Your Guide to Listening

  • nature
  • nonfiction
  • natural history
  • science
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10. Feathers: Displays of Brilliant Plumage

By: Robert Clark

4.04

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

Exquisite images from award-winning National Geographic photographer Robert Clark offer a captivati… read more

Similar categories in Robert Clark's Feathers: Displays of Brilliant Plumage book and Donald Kroodsma's Birdsong for the Curious Naturalist: Your Guide to Listening

  • birds
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • science
Cover of Birdsong for the Curious Naturalist: Your Guide to Listening by Donald Kroodsma

11. Birdsong for the Curious Naturalist: Your Guide to Listening

By: Donald Kroodsma

4.54

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Birdsong made easy to understand, lavishly illustrated with color photos, and accompanied by more t… read more

Similar categories in Donald Kroodsma's Birdsong for the Curious Naturalist: Your Guide to Listening book and Donald Kroodsma's Birdsong for the Curious Naturalist: Your Guide to Listening

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

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