Kingbird Highway: The Biggest Year in the Life of an Extreme Birder
10 best books like Kingbird Highway: The Biggest Year in the Life of an Extreme Birder (Kenn Kaufman): Mind of the Raven: Investigations and Adventures with Wolf-Birds, National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America, Life List: A Woman's Quest for the World's Most Amazing Birds, The Thing with Feathers: The Surprising Lives of Birds and What They Reveal About Being Human, To See Every Bird on Earth: A Father, a Son, and a Lifelong Obsession, What the Robin Knows: How Birds Reveal the Secrets of the Natural World, Sibley's Birding Basics, The Bluebird Effect: Uncommon Bonds with Common Birds, Of a Feather: A Brief History of American Birding, Red-tails in Love: Pale Male's Story—A True Wildlife Drama in Central Park
| Author | Bernd Heinrich |
| ISBN | 0060930632 |
In Mind of the Raven, Bernd Heinrich, award - winning naturalist, finds himself dreaming of ravens and decides he must get to the truth about this animal reputed to be so intelligent.
Much like a sleuth, Heinrich involves us in his quest, letting one clue lead to the next. But as animals can only...
| Author | National Geographic Society |
| ISBN | 0792268776 |
National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America continues to be the most sought-after, the most authoritative, and the easiest to access field guide to birds on the market. Now in its 4th Edition, revisions include 250 updated range maps, and new classification information National...
| Author | Olivia Gentile |
| ISBN | 1596911697 |
A frustrated housewife sets out to see more bird species than anyone in history—and ends up risking her life again and again in the wildest places on earth.
Phoebe Snetsinger had planned to be a scientist, but, like most women who got married in the 1950s, she ended up keeping house, with four...
| Author | Noah Strycker |
| ISBN | 1594486352 |
An entertaining and profound look at the lives of birds, illuminating their surprising world—and deep connection with humanity.
Birds are highly intelligent animals, yet their intelligence is dramatically different from our own and has been little understood. As scientists come to...
| Author | Dan Koeppel |
| ISBN | 1594630011 |
From a well-known outdoors and nature writer comes a narrative that explores a lifelong obsession with competitive birding.
What drives a man to travel to sixty countries and spend a fortune to count birds? And what if that man is your father?
Richard Koeppel's obsession began at the age of...
| Author | Jon Young |
| ISBN | 0547451253 |
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...
| Author | David Allen Sibley |
| ISBN | 0375709665 |
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...
| Author | Julie Zickefoose |
| ISBN | 0547003099 |
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...
| Author | Scott Weidensaul |
| ISBN | 0151012474 |
From the moment Europeans arrived in North America, they were awestruck by a continent awash with birds—great flocks of wild pigeons, prairies teeming with grouse, woodlands alive with brilliantly colored songbirds. Of a Feather traces the colorful origins of American birding: the frontier...
| Author | Marie Winn |
| ISBN | 0679758461 |
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....
| Author | Roger Tory Peterson |
| ISBN | 0395864976 |
On an April day in 1953, renowned American naturalist, author, and illustrator Roger Tory Peterson met his British friend James Fisher, an authority on seabirds, in Newfoundland. There they began a strenuous and thrilling hundred-day field trip around the edge of the continent. Part travelogue,...
| Author | Lisa White |
| ISBN | 0618756426 |
There's probably some unwritten law somewhere that reviews can't be written about a book until a person has finished...so sue me. :) I've only read three or four "chapters" or essays, but I'm already in love.
I think maybe even people that aren't interested in birdwatching would enjoy this...
| Author | Simon Barnes |
| ISBN | 0375423559 |
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...
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....
