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10 best books like The Geese of Beaver Bog (Bernd Heinrich): Kingbird Highway: The Biggest Year in the Life of an Extreme Birder, The Kingdom of Rarities, Eating Stone: Imagination and the Loss of the Wild, The Grail Bird: Hot on the Trail of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker, Rare Encounters with Ordinary Birds, The Bluebird Effect: Uncommon Bonds with Common Birds, Suburban Safari: A Year on the Lawn, Four Wings and a Prayer: Caught in the Mystery of the Monarch Butterfly, Bats Sing, Mice Giggle: The Surprising Science of Animals' Inner Lives, An Obsession with Butterflies: Our Long Love Affair with a Singular Insect

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 Kingdom of Rarities
AuthorEric Dinerstein
ISBN1610911954
When you look out your window, why are you so much more likely to see a robin or a sparrow than a Kirtland's warbler or a California condor? Why are some animals naturally rare and others so abundant? The quest to find and study seldom-seen jaguars and flamboyant Andean cocks-of-the-rock is as alluring...
Eating Stone: Imagination and the Loss of the Wild
AuthorEllen Meloy
Long believed to be disappearing and possibly even extinct, the Southwestern bighorn sheep of Utah’s canyonlands have made a surprising comeback. Naturalist Ellen Meloy tracks a band of these majestic creatures through backcountry hikes, downriver floats, and travels across the Southwest....
The Grail Bird: Hot on the Trail of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker
AuthorTim Gallagher
ISBN0618456937
What is it about the ivory-billed woodpecker? Why does this ghost of the southern swamps arouse such an obsessive level of passion in its devotees, who range from respected researchers to the flakiest Loch Ness monster fanatics and Elvis chasers?
Since the early twentieth century, scientists...
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...
The Bluebird Effect: Uncommon Bonds with Common Birds
AuthorJulie Zickefoose
ISBN0547003099
Julie Zickefoose lives for the moment when a wild, free living bird that she has raised or rehabilitated comes back to visit her; their eyes meet and they share a spark of understanding. Her reward for the grueling work of rescuing birds—such as feeding baby hummingbirds every twenty minutes all day...
Suburban Safari: A Year on the Lawn
AuthorHannah Holmes
ISBN1596910917
William Cronon's essay "The Trouble with Wilderness" lays out a critique of the wilderness myth deeply ingrained in the American mind. The gist of the essay is that since humans are part and parcel of nature, it is not historically or ecologically sound to imagine "proper" ecosystems as without human...
Four Wings and a Prayer: Caught in the Mystery of the Monarch Butterfly
AuthorSue Halpern
Every autumn, the monarch butterflies east of the Rockies migrate from as far north as Canada to Mexico. Memory is not their guide — no one butterfly makes the round trip — but each year somehow find their way to the same fifty acres of forest on the high slopes of Mexico’s Neovolcanic Mountains,...
Bats Sing, Mice Giggle: The Surprising Science of Animals' Inner Lives
AuthorKaren Shanor
ISBN1848311974
"Amazing, moving and enlightening. Bats Sing, Mice Giggle presents the latest findings on the intimate lives of animals with great elegance. I recommend it wholeheartedly."—Larry King



"Did you know that spiders taste with their feet, that a decapitated cockroach can live for...
An Obsession with Butterflies: Our Long Love Affair with a Singular Insect
AuthorSharman Apt Russell
ISBN0465071600
Butterflies have always served as a metaphor for resurrection and transformation, but as Sharman Apt Russell points out in this lyrical meditation, butterflies are above all objects of obsession. She reveals the logic behind our endless fascination with butterflies and introduces us to the legendary...
The Invisible Enemy: A Natural History of Viruses
AuthorDorothy Crawford
ISBN0198564813
Here is a compelling scientific account of viruses, their history, and the dangers they pose--now and in the future. Viruses are disarmingly small and simple. Nevertheless, the smallpox virus killed over 300 million people in the twentieth century before it was eradicated in 1980. The AIDS virus,...
A Book of Bees: And How to Keep Them
AuthorSue Hubbell
ISBN0395883245
"The real masterwork that Sue Hubbell has created is her life," David Quammen wrote in the New York Times. This book is, like its author, a unique achievement. Weaving a vivid portrait of her own life and her bees' lives through the seasons, Hubbell writes "about bees to be sure, but also about other things:...
Adventures among Ants: A Global Safari with a Cast of Trillions
AuthorMark W. Moffett
ISBN0520261992
Intrepid international explorer, biologist, and photographer Mark W. Moffett, “the Indiana Jones of entomology,” takes us around the globe on a strange and colorful journey in search of the hidden world of ants. In tales from Nigeria, Indonesia, the Amazon, Australia, California, and elsewhere,...
The Hidden Life of Deer: Lessons from the Natural World
AuthorElizabeth Marshall Thomas
ISBN0061792101
In The Hidden Life of Deer, Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, the New York Times bestselling author of The Hidden Life of Dogs, turns her attention to wild deer, and the many lessons we can learn by observing nature. A narrative masterpiece and a naturalist’s delight, The Hidden Life of Deer is based...
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....
Butterfly People: An American Encounter with the Beauty of the World
AuthorWilliam R. Leach
ISBN0375422935
With 32 pages of full-color inserts and black-and-white illustrations throughout.

From one of our most highly regarded historians, here is an original and engrossing chronicle of nineteenth-century America’s infatuation with butterflies, and the story of the naturalists who unveiled...
The Ghost with Trembling Wings: Science, Wishful Thinking, and the Search for Lost Species
AuthorScott Weidensaul
ISBN0865476683
"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 Red Hourglass: Lives of the Predators
AuthorGordon Grice
ISBN0385318901
Snake venom that digests human flesh. A building cleared of every living thing by a band of tiny spiders. An infant insect eating its living prey from within, saving the vital organs for last. These are among the deadly feats of natural engineering you'll witness in The Red Hourglass, prize-winning...
Fragile Species
AuthorLewis Thomas
ISBN0684843021
I love his quirky essays, but this book got demoted to 2 stars because of the section on AIDS. I can't forgive the blatant dismissal of gays who were suffering and dying in their thousands while he writes about the concern that the "general population" was likely to be infected at some point, too. The clear...
Cultivating Delight: A Natural History of My Garden
AuthorDiane Ackerman
ISBN0060199865
In the mode of her esteemed bestseller A Natural History of the Senses, Diane Ackerman's new book, Cultivating Delight celebrates the sensory pleasures she discovers in her garden.

Ackerman delights in her garden through all the seasons. Whether she is deadheading flowers or glorying in...
The Boilerplate Rhino: Nature in the Eye of the Beholder
AuthorDavid Quammen
ISBN0743200322
In 1981 David Quammen began what might be every freelance writer's dream: a monthly column for Outside magazine in which he was given free rein to write about anything that interested him in the natural world. His column was called "Natural Acts," and for the next fifteen years he delighted Outside's...
The Cultural Lives of Whales and Dolphins
AuthorHal Whitehead
ISBN0226895319
In the songs and bubble feeding of humpback whales; in young killer whales learning to knock a seal from an ice floe in the same way their mother does; and in the use of sea sponges by the dolphins of Shark Bay, Australia, to protect their beaks while foraging for fish, we find clear examples of the transmission...
Silent Thunder: In the Presence of Elephants
AuthorKaty Payne
ISBN0140285962
A natural history rich in observation of the animal world and how humans participate in it, Silent Thunder is also a passionate story of scientist Katy Payne's spiritual quest as she turns a keen eye on her role in this world. Starting with the story of her revolutionary discovery that elephants use infrasonic...
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