The Bluebird Effect: Uncommon Bonds with Common Birds
10 best books like The Bluebird Effect: Uncommon Bonds with Common Birds (Julie Zickefoose): A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There, Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder, The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating, Kingbird Highway: The Biggest Year in the Life of an Extreme Birder, The Birds of Pandemonium, The Thing with Feathers: The Surprising Lives of Birds and What They Reveal About Being Human, What the Robin Knows: How Birds Reveal the Secrets of the Natural World, Rare Encounters with Ordinary Birds, Birding Without Borders: An Obsession, a Quest, and the Biggest Year in the World, Introverted Mom: Your Guide to More Calm, Less Guilt, and Quiet Joy
| Author | Aldo Leopold |
| ISBN | 0195007778 |
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...
Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder
| Author | Richard Louv |
| ISBN | 1565125223 |
"I like to play indoors better 'cause that's where all the electrical outlets are," reports a fourth-grader. Never before in history have children been so plugged in—and so out of touch with the natural world. In this groundbreaking new work, child advocacy expert Richard Louv directly links the...
The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating
| Author | Elisabeth Tova Bailey |
| ISBN | 1565126068 |
In a work that beautifully demonstrates the rewards of closely observing nature, Elisabeth Bailey shares an inspiring and intimate story of her uncommon encounter with a Neohelix albolabris —a common woodland snail.
While an illness keeps her bedridden, Bailey watches a wild snail that...
| 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 | Michele Raffin |
| ISBN | 1616201363 |
Each morning at first light, Michele Raffin steps outside into the bewitching bird music that heralds another day at Pandemonium Aviaries. A full symphony that swells from the most vocal of more than 350 avian throats representing more than 40 species. “It knocks me out, every day,” she says.
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| Author | Noah Strycker |
| ISBN | 1594486352 |
An entertaining and profound look at the lives of birds, illuminating their surprising world—and deep connection with humanity.
Birds are highly intelligent animals, yet their intelligence is dramatically different from our own and has been little understood. As scientists come to...
| 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...
| 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...
Birding Without Borders: An Obsession, a Quest, and the Biggest Year in the World
| Author | Noah Strycker |
| ISBN | 0544558146 |
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....
Introverted Mom: Your Guide to More Calm, Less Guilt, and Quiet Joy
| Author | Jamie C. Martin |
| ISBN | 0310354978 |
Motherhood is beautiful; motherhood is hard. All moms understand this paradoxical truth. Yet introverted mothers face unique challenges. When our quiet nature collides with our often loud role, frustration and guilt result. We wonder why motherhood feels at odds with our personality, and in our...
