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The Wisdom of Birds: An Illustrated History of Ornithology

9 best books like The Wisdom of Birds: An Illustrated History of Ornithology (Tim Birkhead): Kingbird Highway: The Biggest Year in the Life of an Extreme Birder, Mating, Hope is the Thing with Feathers: A Personal Chronicle of Vanished Birds, West, A Life of My Own, The Snoring Bird: My Family's Journey Through a Century of Biology, Kaufman Field Guide to Advanced Birding: Understanding What You See and Hear, Wild America: The Record of a 30,000 Mile Journey Around the Continent by a Distinguished Naturalist and His British Colleague, The Warbler Guide

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:...
Mating
AuthorNorman Rush
The narrator of this splendidly expansive novel of high intellect and grand passion is an American anthropologist at loose ends in the South African republic of Botswana. She has a noble and exacting mind, a good waist, and a busted thesis project. She also has a yen for Nelson Denoon, a charismatic intellectual...
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...
West
AuthorCarys Davies
ISBN1501179349
When widowed mule breeder Cy Bellman reads in the newspaper that colossal ancient bones have been discovered in the salty Kentucky mud, he sets out from his small Pennsylvania farm to see for himself if the rumors are true: that the giant monsters are still alive and roam the uncharted wilderness beyond...
A Life of My Own
AuthorClaire Tomalin
Acclaimed biographer Claire Tomalin, the bestselling author of The Invisible Woman and Jane Austen, turns her critical eye to another fascinating literary life: her own.

In this intimate and insightful memoir, Claire remembers moments of national literary history as well as intense personal...
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...
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...
Wild America: The Record of a 30,000 Mile Journey Around the Continent by a Distinguished Naturalist and His British Colleague
AuthorRoger Tory Peterson
ISBN0395864976
On an April day in 1953, renowned American naturalist, author, and illustrator Roger Tory Peterson met his British friend James Fisher, an authority on seabirds, in Newfoundland. There they began a strenuous and thrilling hundred-day field trip around the edge of the continent. Part travelogue,...
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...
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