The Bird: A Natural History of Who Birds Are, Where They Came From & How They Live
10 best books like The Bird: A Natural History of Who Birds Are, Where They Came From & How They Live (Colin Tudge): The Life of Birds, The Bedside Book of Birds: An Avian Miscellany, 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, Why Birds Sing: A Journey Into the Mystery of Bird Song, Rare Encounters with Ordinary Birds, The Emerald Planet: How Plants Changed Earth's History, Why Elephants Have Big Ears: And Other Riddles from the Natural World, In the Company of Crows and Ravens
| 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...
| 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...
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...
| Author | David Beerling |
| ISBN | 0192806025 |
Global warming is contentious and difficult to measure, even among the majority of scientists who agree that it is taking place. Will temperatures rise by 2 C or 8 C over the next hundred years? Will sea levels rise by 2 or 30 feet? The only way that we can accurately answer questions like these is by looking...
| Author | Chris Lavers |
| ISBN | 0312303335 |
Why Elephants Have Big Ears is the result of one man's lifelong quest to understand why the creatures of the earth appear and act as they do. In a wry manner and personal tone, Chris Lavers explores and solves some of nature's most challenging evolutionary mysteries, such as why birds are small and plentiful,...
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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | Scott Weidensaul |
| ISBN | 0865476683 |
"A thoughtful examination of the machinery of extinction . . . By turns harrowing and elegiac, thrilling and informative." —Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
Three or four times an hour, eighty or more times a day, a unique species of plant or animal vanishes forever. And yet, every so...
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...
