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Of a Feather: A Brief History of American Birding

10 best books like Of a Feather: A Brief History of American Birding (Scott Weidensaul): Mind of the Raven: Investigations and Adventures with Wolf-Birds, Kingbird Highway: The Biggest Year in the Life of an Extreme Birder, The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Eastern North America, National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America, American Wolf, The Birds of Heaven: Travels with Cranes, The Crossley Id Guide: Eastern Birds, Good Birders Don't Wear White: 50 Tips From North America's Top Birders, How to Be a (Bad) Birdwatcher, Birds of North America

Mind of the Raven: Investigations and Adventures with Wolf-Birds
AuthorBernd Heinrich
ISBN0060930632
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...
Kingbird Highway: The Biggest Year in the Life of an Extreme Birder
AuthorKenn Kaufman
ISBN0618709401
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:...
The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Eastern North America
AuthorDavid Allen Sibley
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...
National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America
AuthorNational Geographic Society
ISBN0792268776
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...
American Wolf
AuthorNate Blakeslee
ISBN1101902809
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The enthralling story of the rise and reign of O-Six, the celebrated Yellowstone wolf, and the people who loved or feared her

Before men ruled the earth, there were wolves. Once abundant in North America, these majestic creatures were hunted to near extinction...
The Birds of Heaven: Travels with Cranes
AuthorPeter Matthiessen
ISBN0865476578
“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...
The Crossley Id Guide: Eastern Birds
AuthorRichard Crossley
ISBN0691147787
This stunningly illustrated book from acclaimed birder and photographer Richard Crossley revolutionizes field guide design by providing the first real-life approach to identification. Whether you are a beginner, expert, or anywhere in between, The Crossley ID Guide will vastly improve your...
Good Birders Don't Wear White: 50 Tips From North America's Top Birders
AuthorLisa White
ISBN0618756426
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...
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...
Birds of North America
AuthorKenn Kaufman
ISBN0395964644
About myself: I've been birding for all of three months, not really taking walks for the purpose of birding or making IDs until this past Christmas Bird Count. So I imagine I fall right in the target demographic for this work. My impression of the several times I've built a stack of several guides to look...
Birding Without Borders: An Obsession, a Quest, and the Biggest Year in the World
AuthorNoah Strycker
ISBN0544558146
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....
The Feather Thief
AuthorKirk Wallace Johnson
ISBN1101981636
On a cool June evening in 2009, after performing a concert at London's Royal Academy of Music, twenty-year-old American flautist Edwin Rist boarded a train for a suburban outpost of the British Museum of Natural History. Home to one of the largest ornithological collections in the world, the Tring...
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