The Bedside Book of Birds: An Avian Miscellany
10 best books like The Bedside Book of Birds: An Avian Miscellany (Graeme Gibson): The Life of Birds, Mind of the Raven: Investigations and Adventures with Wolf-Birds, Kingbird Highway: The Biggest Year in the Life of an Extreme Birder, Living on the Wind: Across the Hemisphere with Migratory Birds, Providence of a Sparrow: Lessons from a Life Gone to the Birds, Bird Brains: The Intelligence of Crows, Ravens, Magpies, and Jays, To See Every Bird on Earth: A Father, a Son, and a Lifelong Obsession, The Wisdom of Birds: An Illustrated History of Ornithology, What the Robin Knows: How Birds Reveal the Secrets of the Natural World, Why Birds Sing: A Journey Into the Mystery of Bird Song
| 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 | 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 | 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:...
| Author | Scott Weidensaul |
| ISBN | 0865475911 |
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...
| Author | Chris Chester |
| ISBN | 1400033853 |
“There’s a special providence in the fall of a sparrow.” --William Shakespeare, Hamlet
B fell twenty-five feet from his nest into the life of Chris Chester. The encounter was providential for both of them.
B and Chester spent hours together playing games like bottle-cap fetch...
| 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 | 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 | 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 | 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...
Why Birds Sing: A Journey Into the Mystery of Bird Song
| Author | David Rothenberg |
| ISBN | 0465071368 |
The astonishing richness of birdsong is both an aesthetic and a scientific mystery. Evolutionists have never been able to completely explain why birdsong is so inventive and why many species devote so many hours to singing. The standard explanations of defending territories and attracting mates...
| 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...
In the Company of Crows and Ravens
| Author | John M. Marzluff |
| ISBN | 0300122551 |
From the cave walls at Lascaux to the last painting by Van Gogh, from the works of Shakespeare to those of Mark Twain, there is clear evidence that crows and ravens influence human culture. Yet this influence is not unidirectional, say the authors of this fascinating book: people profoundly influence...
| 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 | Jonathan Rosen |
| ISBN | 0374186308 |
Aerial delights: A history of America as seen through the eyes of a bird-watcher
John James Audubon arrived in America in 1803, when Thomas Jefferson was president, and lived long enough to see his friend Samuel Morse send a telegraphic message from his house in New York City in the 1840s. As...
| 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....
John James Audubon came to America as a dapper eighteen-year-old eager to make his fortune. He had a talent for drawing and an interest in birds, and he would spend the next thirty-five years traveling to the remotest regions of his new country–often alone and on foot–to render his avian subjects...
The Sibley Guide to Bird Life & Behavior
| Author | David Allen Sibley |
| ISBN | 0679451234 |
“Once in a great while, a natural history book changes the way people look at the world. In 1838, John ames Audubon’s Birds of America was one...In 1934, Roger Tory Peterson produced Field Guide to the Birds...Now comes The Sibley Guide to Birds.”
Thus did The New York Times, in 1999, greet...
| Author | Carol Kaesuk Yoon |
| ISBN | 0393061973 |
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Two hundred and fifty years ago, the Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus set out to order and name the entire living world and ended up founding a science: the field of scientific classification, or taxonomy. Yet, in spite of Linnaeus’s pioneering...
| 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 | Caroline Fraser |
| ISBN | 0805078266 |
A gripping account of the environmental crusade to save the world’s most endangered species and landscapes—the last best hope for preserving our natural home
Scientists worldwide are warning of the looming extinction of thousands of species, from tigers and polar bears to rare flowers,...
| Author | Alston Chase |
| ISBN | 0156720361 |
This book makes me not want to work for the Parks Service (a real possibility) and yet I very much wonder how much bias is there. The author's tone is relentlessly resentful of what he sees as an overblown bureaucracy. While some of the decisions the NPS made in Yellowstone are truly horrific, i.e. the actual...
| 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...
Alex Studies: Cognitive and Communicative Abilities of Grey Parrots
| Author | Irene M. Pepperberg |
| ISBN | 0674008065 |
Can a parrot understand complex concepts and mean what it says? Since the early 1900s, most studies on animal-human communication have focused on great apes and a few cetacean species. Birds were rarely used in similar studies on the grounds that they were merely talented mimics--that they were, after...
