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The Thing with Feathers: The Surprising Lives of Birds and What They Reveal About Being Human

10 best books like The Thing with Feathers: The Surprising Lives of Birds and What They Reveal About Being Human (Noah Strycker): The Forest Unseen: A Year’s Watch in Nature, Mind of the Raven: Investigations and Adventures with Wolf-Birds, Kingbird Highway: The Biggest Year in the Life of an Extreme Birder, The Birds of Pandemonium, What the Robin Knows: How Birds Reveal the Secrets of the Natural World, The Snoring Bird: My Family's Journey Through a Century of Biology, Feathers: The Evolution of a Natural Miracle, The Seabird's Cry: The Lives and Loves of the Planet's Great Ocean Voyagers, Good Birders Don't Wear White: 50 Tips From North America's Top Birders, The Hidden Lives of Owls: The Science and Spirit of Nature's Most Elusive Birds

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...
Mind of the Raven: Investigations and Adventures with Wolf-Birds
AuthorBernd Heinrich
ISBN0060930632
In Mind of the Raven, Bernd Heinrich, award - winning naturalist, finds himself dreaming of ravens and decides he must get to the truth about this animal reputed to be so intelligent.

Much like a sleuth, Heinrich involves us in his quest, letting one clue lead to the next. But as animals can only...
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 Birds of Pandemonium
AuthorMichele Raffin
ISBN1616201363
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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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...
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...
Feathers: The Evolution of a Natural Miracle
AuthorThor Hanson
ISBN0465020135
Feathers are an evolutionary marvel: aerodynamic, insulating, beguiling. They date back more than 100 million years. Yet their story has never been fully told. In Feathers, biologist Thor Hanson details a sweeping natural history, as feathers have been used to fly, protect, attract, and adorn through...
The Seabird's Cry: The Lives and Loves of the Planet's Great Ocean Voyagers
AuthorAdam Nicolson
ISBN1250134188
Life itself could never have been sustainable without seabirds. As Adam Nicolson writes: "They are bringers of fertility, the deliverers of life from ocean to land."

A global tragedy is unfolding. Even as we are coming to understand them, the number of seabirds on our planet is in freefall,...
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 Hidden Lives of Owls: The Science and Spirit of Nature's Most Elusive Birds
AuthorLeigh Calvez
ISBN1632170264
A naturalist probes the forest, mainly at night, to comprehend the secret lives of owls in this book that will appeal to readers of "Crow Planet "and "H is for Hawk." Join Leiigh Calvez on adventures into the world of owls: owl-watching, avian science, and the deep forest often in the dead of night. These...
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