How to Be a (Bad) Birdwatcher

6 best books like How to Be a (Bad) Birdwatcher (Simon Barnes): The Life of Birds, Kingbird Highway: The Biggest Year in the Life of an Extreme Birder, Crow Country, Meadowland: The Private Life of an English Field, Sightlines, Birding Without Borders: An Obsession, a Quest, and the Biggest Year in the World

The Life of Birds

Author	David Attenborough
ISBN	0563387920

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...

Kingbird Highway: The Biggest Year in the Life of an Extreme Birder

Author	Kenn Kaufman
ISBN	0618709401

At sixteen, Kenn Kaufman dropped out of the high school where he was student council president and hit the road, hitching back and forth across America, from Alaska to Florida, Maine to Mexico. Maybe not all that unusual a thing to do in the seventies, but what Kenn was searching for was a little different:...

Crow Country

Author	Mark Cocker
ISBN	0224076019

One night Mark Cocker followed the roiling, deafening flock of rooks and jackdaws which regularly passed over his Norfolk home on their way to roost in the Yare valley. From the moment he watched the multitudes blossom as a mysterious dark flower above the night woods, these gloriously commonplace...

Meadowland: The Private Life of an English Field

Author	John Lewis-Stempel
ISBN	0857521454

What really goes on in the long grass?

Meadowland gives an unique and intimate account of an English meadow’s life from January to December, together with its biography. In exquisite prose, John Lewis-Stempel records the passage of the seasons from cowslips in spring to the hay-cutting...

Sightlines

Author

Kathleen Jamie

The outer world flew open like a door, and I wondered—what is it that we're just not seeing? In this greatly anticipated sequel to Findings, prize-winning poet and renowned nature writer Kathleen Jamie takes a fresh look at her native Scottish landscapes, before sailing north into iceberg-strewn...

Birding Without Borders: An Obsession, a Quest, and the Biggest Year in the World

Author	Noah Strycker
ISBN	0544558146

Traveling to 41 countries in 2015 with a backpack and binoculars, Noah Strycker became the first person to see more than half the world’s 10,000 species of birds in one year.

In 2015, Noah Strycker set himself a lofty goal: to become the first person to see half the world’s birds in one year....