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The Life of the Skies: Birding at the End of Nature

10 best books like The Life of the Skies: Birding at the End of Nature (Jonathan Rosen): The Life of Birds, Kingbird Highway: The Biggest Year in the Life of an Extreme Birder, The Bedside Book of Birds: An Avian Miscellany, 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, Bright Wings: An Illustrated Anthology of Poems About Birds, The Bluebird Effect: Uncommon Bonds with Common Birds, Hope is the Thing with Feathers: A Personal Chronicle of Vanished Birds

The Life of Birds
AuthorDavid Attenborough
ISBN0563387920
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...
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 Bedside Book of Birds: An Avian Miscellany
AuthorGraeme Gibson
ISBN0385514832
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...
To See Every Bird on Earth: A Father, a Son, and a Lifelong Obsession
AuthorDan Koeppel
ISBN1594630011
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...
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...
Why Birds Sing: A Journey Into the Mystery of Bird Song
AuthorDavid Rothenberg
ISBN0465071368
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...
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...
Bright Wings: An Illustrated Anthology of Poems About Birds
AuthorBilly Collins
ISBN0231150849
In this beautiful collection of poems and paintings, Billy Collins, former U.S. poet laureate, joins with David Allen Sibley, America's foremost bird illustrator, to celebrate the winged creatures that have inspired so many poets to sing for centuries. From Catullus and Chaucer to Robert Browning...
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...
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...
The Bird: A Natural History of Who Birds Are, Where They Came From & How They Live
AuthorColin Tudge
ISBN0307342042
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,...
The Birds of Heaven: Travels with Cranes
AuthorPeter Matthiessen
ISBN0865476578
“You don’t have to be a ‘craniac’ . . . to appreciate [this book] . . . All you really need is a passion for prose as good as it gets.” —Chicago Tribune

In legend, cranes often figure as harbingers of heaven and omens of longevity and good fortune. And in nature, they are an “umbrella...
The Singing Life of Birds: The Art and Science of Listening to Birdsong (with CD)
AuthorDonald E. Kroodsma
ISBN0618405682
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....
Flyaway: How A Wild Bird Rehabber Sought Adventure and Found Her Wings
AuthorSuzie Gilbert
ISBN0061563129
I think I read this book at exactly the right time. I currently have a tiny seven-inch-long bearded dragon* in my bedroom. Since getting her on June 13th, things have changed around here. I get up at 6am whether I like it or not because that's when her lights come on and she wakes up, climbs out of her hammock**...
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....
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...
John James Audubon
AuthorRichard Rhodes
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
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...
Superdove: How the Pigeon Took Manhattan ... And the World
AuthorCourtney Humphries
ISBN0061259160
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...
Ornithology
AuthorFrank B. Gill
ISBN0716749831
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