Flyaway: How A Wild Bird Rehabber Sought Adventure and Found Her Wings

10 best books like Flyaway: How A Wild Bird Rehabber Sought Adventure and Found Her Wings (Suzie Gilbert): Secrets of the Savanna: Twenty-three Years in the African Wilderness Unraveling the Mysteries of Elephants and People, Providence of a Sparrow: Lessons from a Life Gone to the Birds, Corvus: A Life with Birds, What the Robin Knows: How Birds Reveal the Secrets of the Natural World, Rare Encounters with Ordinary Birds, Bright Wings: An Illustrated Anthology of Poems About Birds, The Bluebird Effect: Uncommon Bonds with Common Birds, Hope is the Thing with Feathers: A Personal Chronicle of Vanished Birds, The Whale Warriors: The Battle at the Bottom of the World to Save the Planet's Largest Mammals, The Snoring Bird: My Family's Journey Through a Century of Biology

Secrets of the Savanna: Twenty-three Years in the African Wilderness Unraveling the Mysteries of Elephants and People
AuthorMark Owens
ISBN0618872507
In this riveting real-life adventure, Mark and Delia Owens tell the dramatic story of their last years in Africa, fighting to save elephants, villagers, and -- in the end -- themselves. The award-winning zoologists and pioneering conservationists describe their work in the remote and ruggedly beautiful...
AuthorChris Chester
ISBN1400033853
“There’s a special providence in the fall of a sparrow.” --William Shakespeare, Hamlet

B fell twenty-five feet from his nest into the life of Chris Chester. The encounter was providential for both of them.
B and Chester spent hours together playing games like bottle-cap fetch...
AuthorEsther Woolfson
ISBN1847080294
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Birds have arrived, the chosen and the unwanted, the damaged, the accidentally displaced from nests. They have stayed, or gone, leaving, all of them, their own determined avian imprint,...
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...
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...
AuthorBilly Collins
ISBN0231150849
In this beautiful collection of poems and paintings, Billy Collins, former U.S. poet laureate, joins with David Allen Sibley, America's foremost bird illustrator, to celebrate the winged creatures that have inspired so many poets to sing for centuries. From Catullus and Chaucer to Robert Browning...
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...
AuthorChristopher Cokinos
ISBN0446677493
I really enjoyed the first half of the book, though it was depressing to read story after story about how people worked hard to help the heath hen, passenger pigeon, Carolina parakeet and ivory billed woodpecker only to be met with ultimate doom. But, I found the second half more tedious to read. There...
The Whale Warriors: The Battle at the Bottom of the World to Save the Planet's Largest Mammals
AuthorPeter Heller
ISBN1416532463
This is a sobering book. The devastation wrecked on the world’s fisheries is extraordinary. 90% of the predatory fish, so essential to a healthy ecosystem, have been destroyed or fished out since 1950. Traditional food fish have all but disappeared. If we had any sense, we’d stop eating fish immediately....
AuthorBernd Heinrich
ISBN0060742151
From Bernd Heinrich, the bestselling author of Winter World, comes the remarkable story of his father's life, his family's past, and how the forces of history and nature have shaped his own life. Although Bernd Heinrich's father, Gerd, a devoted naturalist, specialized in wasps, Bernd tried to distance...
AuthorJoan D. Chittister
ISBN1580511430
Called to Question is Sr. Joan Chittister's most personal and intense writing to date. Centered around a series of conversations with spiritual writers featured in her private journal, Sr. Joan looks at the common questions or dimensions of life as we know them in our daily lives-not answers as we've...
AuthorJonathan Rosen
ISBN0374186308
Aerial delights: A history of America as seen through the eyes of a bird-watcher

John James Audubon arrived in America in 1803, when Thomas Jefferson was president, and lived long enough to see his friend Samuel Morse send a telegraphic message from his house in New York City in the 1840s. As...
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....
AuthorBarbara Sjoholm
ISBN1593761597
A Frequent traveler to Northern Europe, Barbara Sjoholm set off one winter to explore a region that had long intrigued her.

Sjoholm first travels to Kiruna, Sweden, to see the Ice Hotel under construction and to meet the ice artists who make its rooms into environmental art. Traveling to the...
AuthorAndrew D. Blechman
ISBN0802118348
In the tradition of Robert Sullivan’s best-selling Rats comes a whimsical and intimate look into the fascinating world of pigeons and the people they collect. Pigeons have been worshipped as fertility goddesses and used as crucial communicators in war by every major historical superpower from...
AuthorDyan deNapoli
On June 23, 2000, the iron ore carrier MV Treasure foundered off the coast of Cape Town, South Africa, spilling 1,300 tons of oil into the ocean and contaminating the habitat of 75,000 penguins—thus threatening to decimate 41 percent of the world’s population of African penguins. A massive rescue...
Appointments at the Ends of the World: Memoirs of a Wildlife Veterinarian
AuthorWilliam B. Karesh
ISBN0446675997
I was a bit unsure about this book as I started out, unsure about the views of the author, though I was definitely looking forward to some armchair travel.

I really came to appreciate it all as I read more. William B. Karesh is a wildlife veterinarian working for the Wildlife Conservation Society...
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...
AuthorRobert Kanigel
ISBN0963124676
I’m a retired librarian, so I like books. I really like books about books, and that is what this is. I probably bought it (so long ago that I can’t remember when) because the author bought my old house.

I stumbled upon it in a recent reorganizing project and started reading. To be honest, I didn’t...
AuthorTerry Masear
ISBN0544416031
A heartwarming account of the trials and triumphs a hummingbird rehabber encounters while caring for her tiny, fragile patients

Before he collided with a limousine, Gabriel, an Anna’s hummingbird with a head and throat cloaked in iridescent magenta feathers, could spiral 130 feet in...
Birdology: Adventures with a Pack of Hens, a Peck of Pigeons, Cantankerous Crows, Fierce Falcons, Hip Hop Parrots, Baby Hummingbirds, and One Murderously Big Living Dinosaur
AuthorSy Montgomery
ISBN1416569847
Meet the ladies: a flock of smart, affectionate, highly individualistic chickens who visit their favorite neighbors, devise different ways to hide from foxes, and mob the author like she’s a rock star. In these pages you’ll also meet Maya and Zuni, two orphaned baby hummingbirds who hatched from...
The Ark's Anniversary
AuthorGerald Durrell
ISBN1559701404
A prolific author who never fails to be entertaining, Durrell brings us up to date on his Jersey Wildlife Preservation Trust. Ever since he was six years old, Durrell knew he wanted to have his own zoo. How he accomplished that--and became a respected naturalist in the process--will delight readers....
Joy of Reading
AuthorCharles Van Doren
ISBN1402211600
"This book is as contagious as it was intended to be."
Mortimer J. Adler

Like a professor whose enthusiasm inspires his students, Charles Van Doren explains what's wonderful in the classic and contemporary books you've missed, and awakens your desire to reopen the works you've loved....
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