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The Singing Life of Birds: The Art and Science of Listening to Birdsong (with CD)

10 best books like The Singing Life of Birds: The Art and Science of Listening to Birdsong (with CD) (Donald E. Kroodsma): Living on the Wind: Across the Hemisphere with Migratory Birds, Eye of the Albatross: Visions of Hope and Survival, The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Eastern 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, What the Robin Knows: How Birds Reveal the Secrets of the Natural World, A Feathered River Across the Sky: The Passenger Pigeon's Flight to Extinction, Rare Encounters with Ordinary Birds, Hope is the Thing with Feathers: A Personal Chronicle of Vanished Birds, The Snoring Bird: My Family's Journey Through a Century of Biology

Living on the Wind: Across the Hemisphere with Migratory Birds
AuthorScott Weidensaul
ISBN0865475911
Bird migration is the world's only true unifying natural phenomenon, stitching the continents together in a way that even the great weather systems fail to do. Scott Weidensaul follows awesome kettles of hawks over the Mexican coastal plains, bar-tailed godwits that hitchhike on gale winds 7,000...
Eye of the Albatross: Visions of Hope and Survival
AuthorCarl Safina
ISBN0805062297
"One of the most delightful natural history studies in decades." —The Boston Globe

Eye of the Albatross takes us soaring to locales where whales, sea turtles, penguins, and shearwaters flourish in their own quotidian rhythms. Carl Safina's guide and inspiration is an albatross he calls...
The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Eastern North America
AuthorDavid Allen Sibley
A guidebook certainly to find its lofty place within my other treasures. My good friend in Florida remarked yesterday, "Birds offer free entertainment", and I could not agree more. A little late in life for me to find a new interest in identifying birds, but owning a cabin in northern Michigan and a small...
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...
What the Robin Knows: How Birds Reveal the Secrets of the Natural World
AuthorJon Young
ISBN0547451253
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...
A Feathered River Across the Sky: The Passenger Pigeon's Flight to Extinction
AuthorJoel Greenberg
ISBN1620405342
In the early nineteenth century 25 to 40 percent of North America's birds were passenger pigeons, traveling in flocks so massive as to block out the sun for hours or even days. The down beats of their wings would chill the air beneath and create a thundering roar that would drown out all other sound. Feeding...
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...
The Snoring Bird: My Family's Journey Through a Century of Biology
AuthorBernd Heinrich
ISBN0060742151
From Bernd Heinrich, the bestselling author of Winter World, comes the remarkable story of his father's life, his family's past, and how the forces of history and nature have shaped his own life. Although Bernd Heinrich's father, Gerd, a devoted naturalist, specialized in wasps, Bernd tried to distance...
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 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...
Kaufman Field Guide to Advanced Birding: Understanding What You See and Hear
AuthorKenn Kaufman
ISBN0547248326
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...
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 Crossley Id Guide: Eastern Birds
AuthorRichard Crossley
ISBN0691147787
This stunningly illustrated book from acclaimed birder and photographer Richard Crossley revolutionizes field guide design by providing the first real-life approach to identification. Whether you are a beginner, expert, or anywhere in between, The Crossley ID Guide will vastly improve your...
Good Birders Don't Wear White: 50 Tips From North America's Top Birders
AuthorLisa White
ISBN0618756426
There's probably some unwritten law somewhere that reviews can't be written about a book until a person has finished...so sue me. :) I've only read three or four "chapters" or essays, but I'm already in love.

I think maybe even people that aren't interested in birdwatching would enjoy this...
The Warbler Guide
AuthorTom Stephenson
ISBN0691154821
Warblers are among the most challenging birds to identify. They exhibit an array of seasonal plumages and have distinctive yet oft-confused calls and songs. "The Warbler Guide" enables you to quickly identify any of the 56 species of warblers in the United States and Canada. This groundbreaking guide...
Hawks in Flight: The Flight Identification of North American Migrant Raptors
AuthorPete Dunne
ISBN0395510228
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