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10 best books like The Birds of Heaven: Travels with Cranes (Peter Matthiessen): Kingbird Highway: The Biggest Year in the Life of an Extreme Birder, The Eternal Frontier: An Ecological History of North America and Its Peoples, National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America, Life List: A Woman's Quest for the World's Most Amazing Birds, A Field Guide to Western Birds: A Completely New Guide to Field Marks of All Species Found in North America West of the 100th Meridian and North of Mexico, 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, Return to Wild America: A Yearlong Search for the Continent's Natural Soul, The Life of the Skies: Birding at the End of Nature

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 Eternal Frontier: An Ecological History of North America and Its Peoples
AuthorTim Flannery
ISBN0802138888
In The Eternal Frontier, world-renowned scientist and historian Tim Flannery tells the unforgettable story of the geological and biological evolution of the North American continent, from the time of the asteroid strike that ended the age of dinosaurs 65 million years ago, to the present day. Flannery...
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...
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...
A Field Guide to Western Birds: A Completely New Guide to Field Marks of All Species Found in North America West of the 100th Meridian and North of Mexico
AuthorRoger Tory Peterson
ISBN0395911745
"The Birder’s Bible" for more than 60 years, Roger Tory Peterson’s classic Field Guide to Western Birds includes all species found in North America west of the 100th meridian and north of Mexico. Featuring the unique Peterson Identification System, Western Birds contains 165 full-color paintings...
The Wisdom of Birds: An Illustrated History of Ornithology
AuthorTim Birkhead
ISBN1596915412
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...
Rare Encounters with Ordinary Birds
AuthorLyanda Lynn Haupt
ISBN1570614199
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...
Hope is the Thing with Feathers: A Personal Chronicle of Vanished Birds
AuthorChristopher Cokinos
ISBN0446677493
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...
Return to Wild America: A Yearlong Search for the Continent's Natural Soul
AuthorScott Weidensaul
ISBN0865476888
In 1953, birding guru Roger Tory Peterson and noted British naturalist James Fisher set out on what became a legendary journey-a one hundred day trek over 30,000 miles around North America. They traveled from Newfoundland to Florida, deep into the heart of Mexico, through the Southwest, the Pacific...
The Life of the Skies: Birding at the End of Nature
AuthorJonathan Rosen
ISBN0374186308
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...
Thuggin In Miami (The Family Is Made : Part 1)
AuthorR.A. Robinson
ISBN0985399538
After the death of his father, Rich Kid takes his destructive, malicious, and loyal team of hustlers, known amongst them-selves as The Family, to the next level of thuggin. Using his relationships within the drug distribution realm, Richard catapults his growing empire, taking down anyone who stands...
Red-tails in Love: Pale Male's Story—A True Wildlife Drama in Central Park
AuthorMarie Winn
ISBN0679758461
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....
Ravensong
AuthorCatherine Feher-Elston
ISBN1585423572
Birds of mystery, intelligence, and curiosity, ravens and crows have fascinated humans for untold centuries. In this first in a series of beautifully illustrated books that celebrate the power and beauty of the animal kingdom, Catherine Feher-Elston considers the raven in the contexts of mythology,...
The Tapir's Morning Bath: Mysteries of the Tropical Rain Forest and the Scientists Who Are Trying to Solve Them
AuthorElizabeth Royte
ISBN0618257586
This mischievous behind-the-scenes account of life at a biological research station on a Panamanian island "conveys the uncertainties, frustrations, and joys of [scientific] field work" (Science). Journalist Elizabeth Royte weaves together her own adventures on Barro Colorado with tales of...
The Sibley Guide to Bird Life & Behavior
AuthorDavid Allen Sibley
ISBN0679451234
“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...
Down to Earth: Nature's Role in American History
AuthorTed Steinberg
ISBN0195140109
In this ambitious and provocative text, environmental historian Ted Steinberg offers a sweeping history of our nation--a history that, for the first time, places the environment at the very center of our story. Written with exceptional clarity, Down to Earth re-envisions the story of America "from...
Ravens in Winter
AuthorBernd Heinrich
ISBN0679732365
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...
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...
Last of the Curlews
AuthorFred Bodsworth
ISBN1887178252
Depressing, heart-breaking, and an infuriating (but oh so very much important, necessary and for 1963 impressively modern) massive indictment of us, of humans, and especially and in particular of those of us who hunt not for sustenance (for food) and survival but who for sport, for willful destruction...
The Crossley Id Guide: Raptors
AuthorRichard Crossley
ISBN0691157405
Part of the revolutionary "Crossley ID Guide" series, this is the first raptor guide with lifelike scenes composed from multiple photographs--scenes that allow you to identify raptors just as the experts do. Experienced birders use the most easily observed and consistent characteristics--size,...
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