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Bird Sense: What It's Like to Be a Bird

10 best books like Bird Sense: What It's Like to Be a Bird (Tim Birkhead): The Life of Birds, The Birds of Pandemonium, What the Robin Knows: How Birds Reveal the Secrets of the Natural World, A Feathered River Across the Sky: The Passenger Pigeon's Flight to Extinction, Rare Encounters with Ordinary Birds, Sibley's Birding Basics, The Bluebird Effect: Uncommon Bonds with Common Birds, The Bird: A Natural History of Who Birds Are, Where They Came From & How They Live, Feathers: The Evolution of a Natural Miracle, Kaufman Field Guide to Advanced Birding: Understanding What You See and Hear

The Life of Birds
AuthorDavid Attenborough
ISBN0563387920
Over 9,000 species, the most widespread of all animals: on icebergs, in the Sahara or under the sea, at home in our gardens or flying for over a year at a time. Earthbound, we can only look and listen, enjoying their lightness, freedom and richness of plumage and song.

David Attenborough has been...
The Birds of Pandemonium
AuthorMichele Raffin
ISBN1616201363
Each morning at first light, Michele Raffin steps outside into the bewitching bird music that heralds another day at Pandemonium Aviaries. A full symphony that swells from the most vocal of more than 350 avian throats representing more than 40 species. “It knocks me out, every day,” she says.

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What the Robin Knows: How Birds Reveal the Secrets of the Natural World
AuthorJon Young
ISBN0547451253
A lifelong birder, tracker, and naturalist, Jon Young is guided in his work and teaching by three basic premises: the robin, junco, and other songbirds know everything important about their environment, be it backyard or forest; by tuning in to their vocalizations and behavior, we can acquire much...
A Feathered River Across the Sky: The Passenger Pigeon's Flight to Extinction
AuthorJoel Greenberg
ISBN1620405342
In the early nineteenth century 25 to 40 percent of North America's birds were passenger pigeons, traveling in flocks so massive as to block out the sun for hours or even days. The down beats of their wings would chill the air beneath and create a thundering roar that would drown out all other sound. Feeding...
Rare Encounters with Ordinary Birds
AuthorLyanda Lynn Haupt
ISBN1570614199
Naturalist Lyanda Lynn Haupt, an ornithology teacher and researcher, examines the amazing talents and personalities of the most common of birds. She muses on the tarnished reputation of the starling, the sexed-up antics of male woodpeckers, and the mysterious behavior and startling population...
Sibley's Birding Basics
AuthorDavid Allen Sibley
ISBN0375709665
David Sibley, America's premier birder an best-known bird artist, takes a new direction - in Sibley's Birding Basics he is concerned not so much with species as with the general characteristics that influence the appearance of all birds and thus give us the clues to their identity.

To create...
The Bluebird Effect: Uncommon Bonds with Common Birds
AuthorJulie Zickefoose
ISBN0547003099
Julie Zickefoose lives for the moment when a wild, free living bird that she has raised or rehabilitated comes back to visit her; their eyes meet and they share a spark of understanding. Her reward for the grueling work of rescuing birds—such as feeding baby hummingbirds every twenty minutes all day...
The Bird: A Natural History of Who Birds Are, Where They Came From & How They Live
AuthorColin Tudge
ISBN0307342042
This is a book that took me longer to read than any other book of 2016. And I stuck to the read diligently. But I think it is only going to be appreciated by those with scientific classification onus and supreme interest and patient love of BIRDS. There are many species and this is no short cut to their placements,...
Feathers: The Evolution of a Natural Miracle
AuthorThor Hanson
ISBN0465020135
Feathers are an evolutionary marvel: aerodynamic, insulating, beguiling. They date back more than 100 million years. Yet their story has never been fully told. In Feathers, biologist Thor Hanson details a sweeping natural history, as feathers have been used to fly, protect, attract, and adorn through...
Kaufman Field Guide to Advanced Birding: Understanding What You See and Hear
AuthorKenn Kaufman
ISBN0547248326
Birders can memorize hundreds of details and still not be able to identify birds if they don’t really understand what’s in front of them.Today birders have access to almost too much information, and their attempts to identify birds can be drowned out by excess detail. The all-new Kaufman Field...
The Singing Life of Birds: The Art and Science of Listening to Birdsong (with CD)
AuthorDonald E. Kroodsma
ISBN0618405682
Listen to Birds Sing as you've never listened before, as the world-renowned birdsong expert Donald Kroodsma takes you on personal journeys of discovery and intrigue. Read stories of thrushes and thrashers, wrens and robins, warblers and whip-poor-wills, bluebirds and cardinals, and may more birds....
Red-tails in Love: Pale Male's Story—A True Wildlife Drama in Central Park
AuthorMarie Winn
ISBN0679758461
Updated Edition—Ten Years Later

The scene of this enchanting (and true) story is the Ramble, an unknown wilderness deep in the heart of New York's fabled Central Park. There an odd and amiable band of nature lovers devote themselves to observing and protecting the park's rich wildlife....
Lost Animals: Extinction and the Photographic Record
AuthorErrol Fuller
ISBN0691161372
A photograph of an extinct animal evokes a greater feeling of loss than any painting ever could. Often black and white or tinted sepia, these remarkable images have been taken mainly in zoos or wildlife parks, and in some cases depict the last known individual of the species. Lost Animals is a unique photographic...
Gifts of the Crow: How Perception, Emotion, and Thought Allow Smart Birds to Behave Like Humans
AuthorJohn M. Marzluff
Stan Coren’s groundbreaking The Intelligence of Dogs meets Bernd Heinrich’s classic Mind of the Raven in this astonishing, beautifully illustrated look at the uncanny intelligence and emotions of crows.

CROWS ARE MISCHIEVOUS, playful, social, and passionate. They have brains that...
The Unfeathered Bird
AuthorKatrina Van Grouw
ISBN0691151342
There is more to a bird than simply feathers. And just because birds evolved from a single flying ancestor doesn't mean they are structurally all the same. With over 385 stunning drawings depicting 200 species, The Unfeathered Bird is a richly illustrated book on bird anatomy that offers refreshingly...
The Homing Instinct: Meaning and Mystery in Animal Migration
AuthorBernd Heinrich
ISBN0547198485
Acclaimed scientist and author Bernd Heinrich has returned every year since boyhood to a beloved patch of western Maine woods. What is the biology in humans of this deep-in-the-bones pull toward a particular place, and how is it related to animal homing?

Heinrich explores the fascinating...
The Book of Barely Imagined Beings: A 21st Century Bestiary
AuthorCaspar Henderson
From the Axolotl to the Zebrafish, our planet contains a host of barely imagined beings: real creatures that are often more astonishing that anything dreamt of in the pages of a medieval bestiary. Ranging from the depths of the ocean to the most arid corners of the land, Caspar Henderson captures the...
Illumination in the Flatwoods: A Season with the Wild Turkey
AuthorJoe Hutto
ISBN1599211971
This is an unexpectedly beautiful book. I noticed that a show based on the book was to be aired on PBS the day before Thanksgiving and decided to read the book before watching. (Here is something about the PBS show: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/episod... ) The book began as a sort of journal or field...
The Warbler Guide
AuthorTom Stephenson
ISBN0691154821
Warblers are among the most challenging birds to identify. They exhibit an array of seasonal plumages and have distinctive yet oft-confused calls and songs. "The Warbler Guide" enables you to quickly identify any of the 56 species of warblers in the United States and Canada. This groundbreaking guide...
How to Be a (Bad) Birdwatcher
AuthorSimon Barnes
ISBN0375423559
The title of this book is misleading – the book is really all about how to become a proper bird watcher, but all the time with an emphasis on doing it very simply.

He tells us the we must buy a cheap pair of binoculars (bins), get a field guide (a bird recognition book – and the more local/smaller...
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