Wild Bird Book Recommendations
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Bird Brains: The Intelligence of Crows, Ravens, Magpies, and Jays
By Candace Savage. Next time someone calls you a "Birdbrain," pull out this book and take it as a compliment! Great pictures, stories, and very interesting!

The Bird Collectors
by Barbara Mearns, Richard Mearns
The collections of skins is extremely invaluable to ornithology and the knowledge we have today about birds. Adventures and hardships of the collectors. Very interesting book.

The Birder's Bug Book
by Gilbert Waldbauer
Entomologist and an accomplished birdwatcher, describes many interactions between birds and insects.

Birder's Dictionary
By Randall T. Cox
Carry this with you as an illustrated, thorough and inexpensive reference. Includes an appendix listing all North American and world bird families.

The Birder's Handbook: A Field Guide to the Natural History of North American Birds
by Paul R. Ehrlich, David S. Dobkin, Darryl Wheye
Encyclopedia of bird behavior and biology covers the habitats of 660 North American bird species and provides the information field guides don't have room to include.

Birdfinder: A Birder's Guide to Planning North American Trips
by Jerry A. Cooper
Use this book to plan birding trips. Learn where and when to go as well as how long with detailed lists of places to bird after you get to your destination too.

The Complete Birder: A Guide to Better Birding
By Jack Connor. Not your boring technical guide but full of stories and experiences. Be sure to check out this guide to become a better birder.

Down & Dirty Birding: From the Sublime to the Ridiculous, Here's All the Outrageous but True Stuff You've Ever Wanted to Know About North American Birds
by Joey Slinger
Irreverent guide to looking, acting, and talking like a knowledgeable expert on avian life. Combining useful, accurate facts with hilarious advice.

Encyclopedia of Birds
by Joseph Forshaw
More than 200 photographs and 150 original paintings, maps, and diagrams, an up-to-date and comprehensive survey of the natural history of birds. The authoritative text has been written by the world's leading ornithologists and includes the most recent scientific findings in a stimulating presentation.

The Encyclopedia of Birds
by Christopher M. Perrins
Text and in 700 full color illustrations the 180 families of living birds of the world. Info about each bird family including distribution, habitat, size, color, calls, nesting behavior, and more. Excellent.

Guide to the Nests, Eggs, and Nestlings of North American Birds
by Paul J. Baicich, Colin J. Harrison
669 breeding species are described in full, covering the birds of a vast area, from the Arctic to the southern boundary of the continental United States.

Hope Is the Thing with Feathers: A Personal Chronicle of Vanished Birds
by Christopher Cokinos
An award-winning nature writer weaves natural history and personal experience into the dramatic story of the last days of six North American bird species. Driven by a desire to understand the lives of these now-extinct birds and how and why they vanished, Cokinos excavates crumbling newspapers and forgotten reports. From Bird Rock in the Gulf of St. Lawrence to Louisiana's tangled bayous, he searches for those who loved the Passenger Pigeon, the Carolina Parakeet, and the Labrador Duck; for the people who stalked the Ivory-Billed Woodpecker, the Heath Hen, and the Great Auk; and for those who tried to save them.

The Life of Birds
They soar above us, epitomizing beauty and grace -- humans frequently refer to them as the embodiment of free. Now The Life of Birds, based on the ten-part PBS program, examines the ways and customs of our fine feathered friends. Wonderful!

Lives of North American Birds
by Kenn Kaufman
one-volume encyclopedia on the fascinating lives of our birds. The essential companion to your field guide. Information on more than 900 birds: complete life histories for 680 species that occur regularly in North America and shorter accounts for more than 230 others that visit occasionally; every important detail about the lives of birds: what they eat, where they build their nests, how many eggs they lay, what habitat they choose, when they migrate, their current conservation status, and much more; over 600 beautiful photographs and over 600 range maps; and up-to-date, thorough, and accurate, but written in clear, nontechnical language.

Manual of Ornithology: Avian Structure & Function
by Noble S. Proctor, Patrick J. Lynch
visual guide to the structure and anatomy of birds - is one of the most heavily illustrated ornithology references ever written. A concise atlas of anatomy, it contains more than 200 specially prepared accurate and clear drawings that include material never illustrated before.

On Wings of Song: Poems about Birds
by J. D. McClatchy (Editor)
Poems about skylarks, vultures, nightingales, swallow, robins and many many more.

Ornithology
by Frank Gill
Comprehensive, up-to-date look at ornithology available. Not just a catalogue of species, it takes a conceptual, research-based approach to communicating an understanding of birds, providing an interpretive context that gives focus and meaning to the details of avian life. You get the latest on the impact of evolution on birds, especially the integration of morphological, behavioral, and physiological adaptations; contemporary research on communication and learning, social behavior, mating and reproduction, and population and community ecology; and contributions of avian biology to such fields as ecology, sociobiology, population biology, and biogeography.

When Elephants Weep: The Emotional Lives of Animals
by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, Susan McCarthy
Birds are included in this outstanding and award-winning book. With chapters on love, joy, anger, fear, shame, compassion, and loneliness, this is the first book to explore the full range of emotions in the animal kingdom.

World Checklist of Birds
by Burt L. Monroe Jr with Charles G. Sibley
Complete, standardized bird name list of 9,702 birds of the world and a summary of avian biogeography and biodiversity. Latin and English names for the species recognized in that work and in the Supplement, abbreviated geographic distributions, and spaces for checking species observed in the field and for making brief notes.

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