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10 best books like Ravens in Winter (Bernd Heinrich): A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There, Kingbird Highway: The Biggest Year in the Life of an Extreme Birder, Living on the Wind: Across the Hemisphere with Migratory Birds, Annals of the Former World, Rising from the Plains, Alex & Me: How a Scientist and a Parrot Discovered a Hidden World of Animal Intelligence—and Formed a Deep Bond in the Process, Life List: A Woman's Quest for the World's Most Amazing Birds, What the Robin Knows: How Birds Reveal the Secrets of the Natural World, Dog Owner's Home Veterinary Handbook, Birder's Handbook: A Field Guide to the Natural History of North American Birds

A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
AuthorAldo Leopold
ISBN0195007778
First published in 1949, A Sand County Almanac combines some of the finest nature writing since Thoreau with an outspoken and highly ethical regard for America's relationship to the land.

Written with an unparalleled understanding of the ways of nature, the book includes a section on the...
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:...
Living on the Wind: Across the Hemisphere with Migratory Birds
AuthorScott Weidensaul
ISBN0865475911
Bird migration is the world's only true unifying natural phenomenon, stitching the continents together in a way that even the great weather systems fail to do. Scott Weidensaul follows awesome kettles of hawks over the Mexican coastal plains, bar-tailed godwits that hitchhike on gale winds 7,000...
Annals of the Former World
AuthorJohn McPhee
ISBN0374518734
The Pulitzer Prize-winning view of the continent, across the fortieth parallel and down through 4.6 billion years

Twenty years ago, when John McPhee began his journeys back and forth across the United States, he planned to describe a cross section of North America at about the fortieth parallel...
Rising from the Plains
AuthorJohn McPhee
ISBN0374520658
This is about high-country geology and a Rocky Mountain regional geologist. I raise that semaphore here at the start so no one will feel misled by an opening passage in which a slim young woman who is not in any sense a geologist steps down from a train in Rawlins, Wyoming, in order to go north by stagecoach...
Alex & Me: How a Scientist and a Parrot Discovered a Hidden World of Animal Intelligence—and Formed a Deep Bond in the Process
AuthorIrene M. Pepperberg
ISBN0061672475
Alex & Me is the remarkable true story of an extraordinary relationship between psychologist Irene M. Pepperberg and Alex, an African Grey parrot who proved scientists and accepted wisdom wrong by demonstrating an astonishing ability to communicate and understand complex ideas. A New York...
Life List: A Woman's Quest for the World's Most Amazing Birds
AuthorOlivia Gentile
ISBN1596911697
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...
What the Robin Knows: How Birds Reveal the Secrets of the Natural World
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...
Dog Owner's Home Veterinary Handbook
AuthorJames M. Giffin
ISBN0876052014
"The best book of its kind in print! A Masterpiece in the field of dog care.... Mercifully clear and readable. If you own a dog and love it, you must keep a copy on your handy reference shelf!" ?Mordecai Siegal, President of the Dog Writers Association of America and author of over 20 books on dogs and other...
Birder's Handbook: A Field Guide to the Natural History of North American Birds
AuthorPaul R. Ehrlich
ISBN0671659898
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...
Hawks in Flight: The Flight Identification of North American Migrant Raptors
AuthorPete Dunne
ISBN0395510228
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A Supremely Bad Idea: Three Mad Birders and Their Quest to See It All
AuthorLuke Dempsey
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...
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