What the Robin Knows: How Birds Reveal the Secrets of the Natural World
10 best books like What the Robin Knows: How Birds Reveal the Secrets of the Natural World (Jon Young): Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder, 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, Bird Sense: What It's Like to Be a Bird, The Thing with Feathers: The Surprising Lives of Birds and What They Reveal About Being Human, The Bluebird Effect: Uncommon Bonds with Common Birds, Birding Without Borders: An Obsession, a Quest, and the Biggest Year in the World, What a Plant Knows: A Field Guide to the Senses, How to Raise a Wild Child: The Art and Science of Falling in Love with Nature
Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder
| Author | Richard Louv |
| ISBN | 1565125223 |
"I like to play indoors better 'cause that's where all the electrical outlets are," reports a fourth-grader. Never before in history have children been so plugged in—and so out of touch with the natural world. In this groundbreaking new work, child advocacy expert Richard Louv directly links the...
| Author | David 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...
| Author | Bernd Heinrich |
| ISBN | 0060930632 |
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...
| Author | Kenn Kaufman |
| ISBN | 0618709401 |
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:...
| Author | Tim Birkhead |
| ISBN | 0802779662 |
Most people would love to be able to fly like a bird, but few of us are aware of the other sensations that make being a bird a gloriously unique experience. What is going on inside the head of a nightingale as it sings, and how does its brain improvise? How do desert birds detect rain hundreds of kilometers...
| Author | Noah Strycker |
| ISBN | 1594486352 |
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...
| Author | Julie Zickefoose |
| ISBN | 0547003099 |
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...
Birding Without Borders: An Obsession, a Quest, and the Biggest Year in the World
| Author | Noah Strycker |
| ISBN | 0544558146 |
Traveling to 41 countries in 2015 with a backpack and binoculars, Noah Strycker became the first person to see more than half the world’s 10,000 species of birds in one year.
In 2015, Noah Strycker set himself a lofty goal: to become the first person to see half the world’s birds in one year....
What a Plant Knows: A Field Guide to the Senses
| Author | Daniel Chamovitz |
| ISBN | 0374288739 |
How does a Venus flytrap know when to snap shut? Can an orchid get jet lag? Does a tomato plant feel pain when you pluck a fruit from its vines? And does your favourite fern care whether you play Bach or the Beatles? Combining cutting-edge research with lively storytelling, biologist Daniel Chamovitz...
How to Raise a Wild Child: The Art and Science of Falling in Love with Nature
| Author | Scott D. Sampson |
| ISBN | 0544279328 |
From the beloved host of PBS Kids’ Dinosaur Train, an easy-to-use guide for parents, teachers, and others looking to foster a strong connection between children and nature, complete with engaging activities, troubleshooting advice, and much more
American children spend four to seven...
