Birds Birdwatching category: 559 books

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by Gene Stratton-Porter
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2017

A fantastic work about the birds in the Limberlost swamp area in Indiana, USA. The book contains a wealth of character studies of native American birds as through friendly advances the author could induce to pose for her. Both text and pictures, of which there are almost forty in this edition, display an intimacy with the home life, the moods, the manners and customs of birds.
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An Enchantment of Birds

Memories from a Birder's Life

by Richard Cannings
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2007

In these delightful meditations, biologist and bird lover Richard Cannings weaves stories of his personal encounters with birds into fascinating descriptions of their behavior, anatomy, and evolution. He muses over the meadowlarks' ability to hide their nests so completely that he has seen only two...
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Birds of a Feather

Tales of a Wild Bird Haven

by Linda Johns
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010

Well-known naturalist and artist Linda Johns shares her woodland home with a menagerie of injured wild birds — starlings, blue jays, pigeons, baby woodpeckers, a rose-breasted grosbeak, a semi-palmated sandpiper, and even a gannet. She and her “saner half,” Mack, have gone so far as to transform...
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Flights Against the Sunset

Stories that Reunited a Mother and Son

by Kenn Kaufman
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2008

True life essays that show how a son’s connection with birds helped him reconnect with his mother, from the ornithologist and author of Kingbird Highway.   At age sixteen, Kenn Kaufman left home to travel the world in search of birds. Now a grown man and a renowned ornithologist, he has come back...
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The Beauty of Birds

From Birdscapes: Birds in Our Imagination and Experience

by Jeremy Mynott
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2012

Spring returns and with it the birds. But it also brings throngs of birders who emerge, binoculars in hand, to catch a glimpse of a rare or previously unseen species or to simply lay eyes on a particularly fine specimen of a familiar type. In a delightful meditation that unexpectedly ranges from the...
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by Peter Steyn
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2017

In this autobiographical account of a lifetime spent observing, researching and photographing birds, Peter Steyn shares experiences that span some 70 years. His story starts and ends in Cape Town, South Africa, but in between we read about the 17 years he spent in Zimbabwe – his most productive...
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Bridget Stutchbury Two-Book Bundle

Silence of the Songbirds and The Bird Detective

by Bridget Stutchbury
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2014

A Yale-educated professor of biology, Bridget Stutchbury roams forests studying the social lives and sexual antics of birds, sharing with us the curious reasons for their strange behaviour, bright colouring and elaborate songs. Migratory songbirds are disappearing at a frightening rate. By...
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by Peter Holden
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016

Even if you are an enthusiastic bird watcher, the details of how birds fly, why they behave as they do, how they breed and their extraordinary travels can seem very mysterious. This lively new book aims to give readers a broad understanding of 'how birds work' from their physical make-up to...
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Helping Orphaned or Injured Wild Birds

Storey's Country Wisdom Bulletin A-210

by Diane Scarazzini
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 1999

To Help or Not to Help? When faced with an injured bird or orphaned nestling, most people want to help but don’t know how – and also fear doing more harm than good.  In fact, many wild birds that appear to be in trouble don’t need assistance at all.  How do you know whether a bird needs...
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by Derek Onley, Paul Scofield
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2013

Famous for their size and elegance in flight, albatrosses are familiar to anyone who has travelled through the southern oceans, and are a flagship family of conservation concern. However, albatrosses are just one of several groups of 'pelagic' birds - those that visit land only to breed, and spend...
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by A.H. Chisholm
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2013

With the original introduction by C.J. Dennis and a new foreword by Sean Dooley. Ninety years on, A.H. Chisholm’s classic Mateship with Birds is still as fresh and inspirational as an early-morning walk in the bush, the air resounding with birdsong. His account of the secret lives of birds...
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by Chevonne Reynolds
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015

This practical, straightforward guide to some of the most commonly seen birds in southern Africa is aimed at beginner birders, or even juniors. Less daunting than a full-blown field guide, it’s handy and accessible, combining simple text with clear artwork and photographs to introduce 300 of the...
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The Armchair Birder Goes Coastal

The Secret Lives of Birds of the Southeastern Shore

by John Yow
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012

With his distinctively witty, anecdotal, and disarming voice, John Yow now journeys to the shore and shares his encounters with some of the most familiar and beloved coastal birds. Out of his travels--from North Carolina's Outer Banks, down the Atlantic coast, and westward along the Gulf of Mexico--come...
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The Armchair Birder's Omnibus Ebook

Includes The Armchair Birder and The Armchair Birder Goes Coastal

by John Yow
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012

Available for the first time together in this Omnibus E-Book, The Armchair Birder's Omnibus brings together both of John Yow's delightful books into one convenient e-book. While birding literature is filled with tales of expert observers spotting rare species in exotic locales, John Yow reminds...
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