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…
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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
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- travel
- animals
- nonfiction
- birds
- nature
"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 Armchair Birder: Discovering the Secret Lives of Familiar Birds
By: John Yow
4.05
Format: 245 pages, Hardcover
While birding literature is filled with tales of expert observers spotting rare species in exotic l… read more
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- birds
- nonfiction
- animals
- nature
3. 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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- birds
- nonfiction
- animals
- nature
4. Lost Among the Birds: Accidentally Finding Myself in One Very Big Year
By: Neil Hayward
3.82
Format: None pages,
Early in 2013 Neil Hayward was at a crossroads. He didn't want to open a bakery or whatever else ex… read more
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- memoir
- animals
- nonfiction
- birds
- nature
5. 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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- biography
- memoir
- travel
- animals
- nonfiction
- birds
- nature
6. 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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7. To See Every Bird on Earth: A Father, a Son, and a Lifetime Obsession
By: Dan Koeppel
3.80
Format: None pages,
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8. Life List: A Woman's Quest for the World's Most Amazing Birds
By: Olivia Gentile
3.00
Format: 468 pages, Hardcover
A frustrated housewife sets out to see more bird species than anyone in history--and ends up riskin… read more
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9. One Wild Bird at a Time: Portraits of Individual Lives
By: Bernd Heinrich
3.60
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The acclaimed scientist's encounters with individual wild birds, yielding "marvelous, mind-altering… read more
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10. The Unknown Shore
By: Patrick O'Brian
3.89
Format: None pages, Paperback
Patrick O'Brian's first novel about the sea, The Golden Ocean, took inspiration from Commodore Geor… read more
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11. The Reading Promise: My Father and the Books We Shared
By: Alice Ozma , None
4.16
Format: 114 pages, Hardcover
When Alice Ozma was in 4th grade, she and her father decided to see if he could read aloud to her f… read more
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12. 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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13. Tip of the Iceberg: My 3,000-Mile Journey Around Wild Alaska, the Last Great American Frontier
By: Mark Adams
3.92
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed, bestselling author of Turn Right at Machu Picchu, a fascinating and funny journ… read more
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- travel
- nonfiction
- memoir
- nature
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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- memoir
- animals
- nonfiction
- birds
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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. The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth
By: Zoë Schlanger
4.37
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Award-winning environment and science reporter Zoë Schlanger delivers a groundbreaking work of popu… read more
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- nonfiction
- nature
16. 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
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- birds
- nonfiction
- animals
- nature
17. 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
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- birds
- nonfiction
- animals
- nature
18. 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
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- biography
- memoir
- animals
- nonfiction
- birds
- 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
19. 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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- biography
- memoir
- travel
- animals
- nonfiction
- birds
- nature
20. The (Big) Year That Flew By
By: Arjan Dwarshuis
3.84
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
An epic tale of one passionate birder’s record-breaking adventure through 40 countries over 6 conti… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- travel
- animals
- nonfiction
- birds
- nature
21. 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
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- birds
- nonfiction
- animals
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"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
22. What It's Like to Be a Bird: From Flying to Nesting, Eating to Singing—What Birds Are Doing, and Why
By: David Allen Sibley
4.41
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
In What It's Like to Be a Bird, David Sibley answers the most frequently asked questions about the… read more
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- nonfiction
- animals
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23. The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century
By: Kirk Wallace Johnson
4.01
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
On a cool June evening in 2009, after performing a concert at London's Royal Academy of Music, twen… read more
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- birds
- nonfiction
- animals
- nature
24. 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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- birds
- nonfiction
- animals
- nature
25. Metropolitan Stories
By: Christine Coulson
3.73
Format: 249 pages, Hardcover
From a writer who worked at the Metropolitan Museum for more than twenty-five years, an enchanting … read more
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"He had learned long ago not to comfort the rich. They paid others for that."-Christine Coulson, Metropolitan Stories
"Our lives are devoted to our absence—to the idea that no trace of ourselves should be left in our work."-Christine Coulson, Metropolitan Stories
"We protect them and save them and study them. After a time, we realize—some of us slower than others—that they are protecting us, saving us, studying us."-Christine Coulson, Metropolitan Stories
"Some curators are great scholars, others great exhibition makers, still others, superb collectors. It is rare to have a curator like Peter, who excels at all three."-Christine Coulson, Metropolitan Stories
26. Birds by the Shore: Observing the Natural Life of the Atlantic Coast
By: Jennifer Ackerman
3.85
Format: 177 pages, Paperback
From the bestselling author of The Genius of Birds , the revised and reissued edition of her belove… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- animals
- nonfiction
- birds
- nature
"A native landscape enters a child’s mind through a meld of sensations: the smell of seaweed or hay, the sound of cicadas, the cold grit of stone. It is all heart and magic, confusion rather than orde…"-Jennifer Ackerman, Birds by the Shore: Observing the Natural Life of the Atlantic Coast
27. 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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- memoir
- animals
- nonfiction
- birds
- nature
28. 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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- animals
- nonfiction
- birds
- nature
29. Birds and Us: A 12,000 Year History, from Cave Art to Conservation
By: Tim Birkhead
3.85
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
Since the dawn of human history, birds have stirred our imagination, inspiring and challenging our … read more
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- birds
- nonfiction
- animals
- nature
30. Slow Birding: The Art and Science of Enjoying the Birds in Your Own Backyard
By: Joan E. Strassmann
3.67
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A one-of-a-kind guide to birding locally that encourages readers to slow down and notice the specta… read more
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- birds
- nonfiction
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31. A Season On The Wind: Inside the World of Spring Migration
By: Kenn Kaufman
4.08
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A close look at one season in one key site that reveals the amazing science and magic of spring bir… read more
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- memoir
- animals
- nonfiction
- birds
- nature
"On a day like this, I can’t imagine anything better that might happen in a person’s life than for them to start paying attention to birds—to become aware of this magical world that exists all around …"-Kenn Kaufman, A Season On The Wind: Inside the World of Spring Migration
