Living on the Wind: Across the Hemisphere with Migratory Birds
10 best books like Living on the Wind: Across the Hemisphere with Migratory Birds (Scott Weidensaul): The Life of Birds, The Bedside Book of Birds: An Avian Miscellany, The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Eastern North America, Life List: A Woman's Quest for the World's Most Amazing Birds, Bird Brains: The Intelligence of Crows, Ravens, Magpies, and Jays, The Wisdom of Birds: An Illustrated History of Ornithology, Rare Encounters with Ordinary Birds, Hope is the Thing with Feathers: A Personal Chronicle of Vanished Birds, The Bird: A Natural History of Who Birds Are, Where They Came From & How They Live, Feathers: The Evolution of a Natural Miracle
| 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...
| Author | Graeme Gibson |
| ISBN | 0385514832 |
In this stunning assemblage of words and images, novelist and avid birdwatcher Graeme Gibson has crafted an extraordinary tribute to the venerable relationship between humans and birds.
Birds have ever been the symbols of our highest aspirations. As divine messengers, symbols of our yearning...
A guidebook certainly to find its lofty place within my other treasures. My good friend in Florida remarked yesterday, "Birds offer free entertainment", and I could not agree more. A little late in life for me to find a new interest in identifying birds, but owning a cabin in northern Michigan and a small...
| 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 | Candace Savage |
| ISBN | 0871569566 |
Birds have long been viewed as the archetypal featherbrains—beautiful but dumb. But according to naturalist Candace Savage, “bird brain,” as a pejorative expression, should be rendered obsolete by new research on the family of corvids: crows and their close relations.
The ancients...
| Author | Tim Birkhead |
| ISBN | 1596915412 |
For thousands of years people have been fascinated by birds, and today that fascination is still growing. In 2007 bird-watching is one of the most popular pastimes, not just in America, but throughout the world, and the range of interest runs from the specialist to the beginner.
In The Wisdom...
| Author | Lyanda Lynn Haupt |
| ISBN | 1570614199 |
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...
| Author | Christopher Cokinos |
| ISBN | 0446677493 |
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...
| Author | Colin Tudge |
| ISBN | 0307342042 |
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,...
| Author | Thor Hanson |
| ISBN | 0465020135 |
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...
| Author | Peter Matthiessen |
| ISBN | 0865476578 |
“You don’t have to be a ‘craniac’ . . . to appreciate [this book] . . . All you really need is a passion for prose as good as it gets.” —Chicago Tribune
In legend, cranes often figure as harbingers of heaven and omens of longevity and good fortune. And in nature, they are an “umbrella...
| Author | Kenn Kaufman |
| ISBN | 0547248326 |
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...
| Author | Donald E. Kroodsma |
| ISBN | 0618405682 |
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....
| Author | Courtney Humphries |
| ISBN | 0061259160 |
Why do we see pigeons as lowly urban pests and how did they become such common city dwellers? Courtney Humphries traces the natural history of the pigeon, recounting how these shy birds that once made their homes on the sparse cliffs of sea coasts came to dominate our urban public spaces. While detailing...
| Author | Bernd Heinrich |
| ISBN | 0679732365 |
The author starts with reports that he has heard, that ravens share their food. And he wonders, "why?" Why, indeed. He formulates dozens of hypotheses that could explain this sharing. And yet, he is not even sure whether or not they truly do share their food.
So the author begins a long, painstaking...
| Author | Paul R. Ehrlich |
| ISBN | 0671659898 |
This is the most complete and authoritative reference book about the birds of North America -- up to date and in field-guide format.
The Birder's Handbook is the first of its kind: a portable library of fascinating information not included in your identification guide. For each of the 646 species...
| 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 | Pete Dunne |
| ISBN | 0395510228 |
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It was an epiphany: The moment two friends showed Luke Dempsey a small bird flitting around the bushes of his country garden, he fell madly in love. But did he really want to be a birder? Didn't that mean he'd be forced to eat granola? And wear a man-pouch? Before he knew it, though, he was lost to birding...
