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The Snoring Bird: My Family's Journey Through a Century of Biology

10 best books like The Snoring Bird: My Family's Journey Through a Century of Biology (Bernd Heinrich): The Forest Unseen: A Year’s Watch in Nature, Kingbird Highway: The Biggest Year in the Life of an Extreme Birder, The Thing with Feathers: The Surprising Lives of Birds and What They Reveal About Being Human, The Wisdom of Birds: An Illustrated History of Ornithology, Biophilia, The Coal Tattoo, The Singing Life of Birds: The Art and Science of Listening to Birdsong (with CD), Meadowland: The Private Life of an English Field, The Warbler Guide, The Secret Wisdom of Nature: Trees, Animals, and the Extraordinary Balance of All Living Things ― Stories from Science and Observation

The Forest Unseen: A Year’s Watch in Nature
AuthorDavid George Haskell
A biologist reveals the secret world hidden in a single square meter of forest.

In this wholly original book, biologist David Haskell uses a one-square-meter patch of old-growth Tennessee forest as a window onto the entire natural world. Visiting it almost daily for one year to trace nature’s...
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 Thing with Feathers: The Surprising Lives of Birds and What They Reveal About Being Human
AuthorNoah Strycker
ISBN1594486352
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...
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...
Biophilia
AuthorEdward O. Wilson
ISBN0674074424
I will be so bold as to define biophilia as the innate tendency to focus on life and lifelike processes.
from the Prologue





E.O. Wilson, September 2009 (Wiki, Acghost)

Edward Osborne Wilson (born June 10, 1929) is an American biologist, researcher (sociobiology,...
The Coal Tattoo
AuthorSilas House
ISBN0345480058
Life isn’t easy for twenty-two year old Easter and her teenage sister Anneth, who were left parentless as young children. While Easter, a devout Pentecostal, finds solace in the powerful music of her church, Anneth seeks comfort in the rougher edges of life found in dancing, drinking, and fast living....
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....
Meadowland: The Private Life of an English Field
AuthorJohn Lewis-Stempel
ISBN0857521454
What really goes on in the long grass?

Meadowland gives an unique and intimate account of an English meadow’s life from January to December, together with its biography. In exquisite prose, John Lewis-Stempel records the passage of the seasons from cowslips in spring to the hay-cutting...
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...
The Secret Wisdom of Nature: Trees, Animals, and the Extraordinary Balance of All Living Things ― Stories from Science and Observation
AuthorPeter Wohlleben
ISBN1771643889
The final book in The Mysteries of Nature trilogy by the New York Times bestselling author of The Hidden Life of Trees, Peter Wohlleben.

Nature is full of surprises: deciduous trees affect the rotation of the Earth, cranes sabotage the production of Iberian ham, and coniferous forests can...
Shinrin-Yoku: The Art and Science of Forest Bathing
AuthorQing Li
ISBN0241346959
Shinrin = Forest Yoku = Bathing

Shinrin-Yoku or forest bathing is the practice of spending time in the forest for better health, happiness and a sense of calm. A pillar of Japanese culture for decades, Shinrin-Yoku is a way to reconnect with nature, from walking mindfully in the woods, to a break...
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