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BOOKS OUR MEMBERS HAVE READ AND ENJOYED
BIRDING BOOKS
PART I:   NOT FIELD GUIDES




101 GOLDEN RULES OF BIRDING, Wiles, Wit and Wisdom From a Life-Long Birder, by Marcus Schneck, 2009

A HUMMINGBIRD IN MY HOUSE, The Story of Squeak, by Arnette Heidcamp, 1990

BIRD BRAINS, The Intelligence of Crows, Ravens, Magpies & Jays, by Candace Savage, 1995

BIRDING BABYLON, A Soldier’s Journal From Iraq, by Jonathon Trouern-Trend, 2006

BIRDING ON BORROWED TIME, by Phoebe Snetsinger, 2003

FIFTY PLACES TO GO BIRDING BEFORE YOU DIE, Birding Experts Share the World's Greatest Destinations by Chris Santella, New York: Stewart, Tabori  Chang, 2007.

GATHERINGS OF ANGELS, Migrating Birds and Their Ecology, by Kenneth Able, 1999

HE SAW A HUMMINGBIRD, by Browing and Ogg, 1978

HOPE IS THE THING WITH FEATHERS, A Personal Chronicle of Vanished Birds, by Christoper Cokimos, 2000

LETTERS FROM EDEN,  A Year at Home, in the Woods by Julie Zickefoose, New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2006

LIFE LIST, A Woman’s Quest for the World’s Most Amazing Birds, by Olivia Gentile, 2009

LIFE HISTORIES OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS  This is a series of 21 volumes published between 1919 and 1968 by Arthur Cleveland Bent and collaborators.  Bent was an amateur ornithologist who was approached by the Smithsonian Institute to do a series of books containing his own observations, data from published papers and unpublished notes from volunteers.  The series included such groups as Life Histories of North American Birds of Prey: Life Histories of North American Diving Ducks: Life Histories of North American Jays, Crows and Titmice: and Life Histories of North American Wood Warblers.  You can get more information on these books here -> http://birdsbybent.com/    

ON THE WING, To the Edge of the Earth with the Peregrine Falcon, by Alan Tennant, 2004

RED-TAILS IN LOVE, Pale Male’s Story-A True Wildlife Drama in Central Park, by Marie Winn, 1998, 1999,2005

SONGBIRD JOURNEYS, Four Seasons in the Lives of Migratory Birds, by Miyoko Chu, 2006

THE FEATHER QUEST, A North American Birder’s Year, by Pete Dunne, 1992

THE SILENT SKY, The Incredible Extinction of the Passenger Pigeon, by Alan Eckert, 1965, 2000

THE SINGING LIFE OF BIRDS, The Art and Science of Listening to Birdsong, by Donald Kroodsman, 2005


BIRDING BOOKS
PART II:   FIELD GUIDES



Birds of the Blue Ridge Mountains,  A Guide For the Blue Ridge Parkway, Great Smoky Mountains, Shenandoah National Park and Neighboring Areas, Marcus B. Simpson, Jr.

Birds of the Carolinas
  Field Guide by Stan Tekrele (small pocket edition)

Birds of the Carolinas
  by Eloise F. Potter, James F. Parnell and Robert P. Teulings

Birds of North America
  by Ken Kaufman

Hawks From Every Angle
  How to Identify Raptors in Flight by Jerry Lignori

National Audubon Society’s Field Guide to Birds, Eastern Region

National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of Eastern North America
edited by Jon L. Dunn and Jonathan Alderfer with Paul Lehman

Peterson Field Guides:
Birds of Eastern and Central America
Birds’ Nests
by Hal Harrison
Hawks of North America
by William S. Clark and Brian K. Wheeler
Warblers
by Jon L. Dunn and Kimball Garrett

The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Eastern North America
written and illustrated by
 David A. Sibley
The Sibley Guide to Bird Life and Behavior
illustrated by David A. Sibley, Edited by Chris Elphick, John B. Dunning, Jr., and David Allen Sibley

Smithsonian Handbooks: Birds of North America Eastern Region
by Fred J. Alsop III

Stokes Nature Guides: Guide to Bird Behavior, Volumes 1, 2, and 3
by Donald and Lillian Stokes


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