Birds Birdwatching category: 559 books

With less than twenty species worldwide and only four British and Irish species, the grouse is surprisingly well-known. Its habitats are diverse and relatively remote – ranging from deep forests, through open moorland, to Scotland’s highest peaks. ‘Grouse: The Natural History of British and...

This is American Naturalist John Burroughs' 1902 biography of John James Audubon. John James Audubon (1785 – 1851) was an American ornithologist, painter, and naturalist. He was a prolific writer on the subject of birds, and his book “The Birds of America” (1827) is commonly hailed as being...

Bird Neighbors (1923) : An Introductory Acquaintance with One Hundred and Fifity Birds Commonly Found in the Gardens, Meadows, and Woods About Our Homes by Neltje Blanchan, with introduction by John Burroughs, with many photographic illustrations in color and in black and white. This edition contains over 60 Illustrations, interactive table of contents, and beautifully formatted.

The author takes you along on his birding adventures in a quest to photograph 300 bird species before he dies. He survives cancer and mosquito’s along with imagined Javelina & Armadillo attacks to photograph some rare and beautiful birds. His travels take you to birding hot spots including,...

Nature books, irst published in 1893. According to Wikipedia: "Bradford Torrey (born in Weymouth, Massachusetts, 9 October 1843; died 7 October 1912[1]) was a United States ornithologist. He was educated in the public schools of Weymouth, taught for two years, and subsequently engaged in business in...

Author Leander Keyser devoted himself to years of intensive case studies of several American species of birds and compiled his work into this stellar volume. Keyser introduces the reader to in-depth insights into bird behavior in these pages and gives us the hows and whys of just what makes...

The dawn chorus: a single voice cutting through the darkness heralds a breaking wave of sound at the very beginning of the day. It is an iconic natural phenomenon with many familiar performers, yet it is a mysterious event for which there is no complete explanation. A mass of starlings gathers...

Though not generally perceived as graceful, crows are remarkably so—a single curve undulates from the tip of the bird’s beak to the end of its tail. They take flight almost without effort, flapping their wings easily and ascending into the air like spirits. Crow by Boria Sax is a celebration of...

The ornithologist and award-winning author of The Grail Bird shares his love of falconry in this “boundary-stretching memoir” (Kirkus Reviews). “To me, falconry at its highest level is an art form in which the canvas is the entire sky.”   What is it about falconry that inspires such...

The way birds behave is one of the vital keys to accurate identification and this book provides the experienced instruction needed to understand and get the most out of watching birds. The guide covers all the fundamental types of bird behaviour, including movement, feeding, breeding, migration, navigation,...

Breathtakingly beautiful and exotic, the peacock inspires devotion among both artists and bird lovers. Its iridescent plumage, when fully displayed, is a delight to behold.  The bird itself, as Christine E. Jackson notes in Peacock, appears to enjoy its audience, preening and strutting about...

In this book, bursting with more information than any field guide could hold, the well-known author and birder Pete Dunne introduces readers to the "Cape May School of Birding." It's an approach to identification that gives equal or more weight to a bird's structure and shape and the observer's...

Among the world's most popular birds, hawks can be some of the most difficult birds to identify. They're most often seen flying high above and at a distance. In the first edition of Hawks in Flight, Pete Dunne, David Sibley, and Clay Sutton presented a holistic method of hawk identification,...