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Check Out These Fresh New Books for Young Birders—and the Young at Heart

22734Goldfinches, by Mary Oliver, illustrated by Melissa Sweet, 40 pages, $19. Available here from Penguin Random House (ages 4-8).Few writers have captured birds—and what it feels...

The Book of Birds by Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris

Written by Robert Macfarlane with illustrations by Jackie Morris, The Book of Birds is the spiritual successor to their project The Lost Words.

Light as a Feather: A KidLit Bird Book Review

Light as a Feather: A KidLit Bird Book Review Will Hillenbrand’s book Light as a Feather holds love in each bird’s illustration: a hidden heart. The book was originally inspired by...

‘The Book of Birds’ illustrates a world of wonder

With swooping, poetic prose and vivid watercolors, “The Book of Birds” conveys not only wonder but also concern over the plight of many species.

GILL BIRD LIVES UP TO HER NAMEThis…

GILL BIRD LIVES UP TO HER NAMEThis time of year the garden is alive with activity and this beautiful wildlife book is created with the delicate watercolour touch that Gill is renow...

Books photo: The Book of Birds: A field guide by Robert Macfarlane, illustrated by Jackie Morris

The starling, Sturnus vulgaris, sometimes, en masse, “a sight to drop the jaw and smack the gob, a sight beyond belief; it’s all the fun of the murmuration fair,” Robert Macfarlane...

How to See a Bird: Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris’s Exquisite Illustrated Field Guide to the Wonder of the Winged

“Split the Lark — and You’ll find the Music, ” Emily Dickinson taunted the materialists, “Now, do you doubt that your Bird was true?” In the wake of On the Origin of Species, the p...

An Indie Bookstore for Birders Is a Dream Come True

One morning in April 2024, a tractor trailer holding 5,500 books parked beside a low stucco building in California. Waiting inside among empty shelves and used furniture, Lyzy Lust...

Birding English: A Language Book Review

Birders love language. We’re fascinated by bird names, pepper conversations with terms of our ‘sport’ (twitching, dipping, listing, splitting, and lumping), and gleefully use nickn...

Add These 6 Birdy Books to Your Summer Reading List

Any book can be a beach read with the right attitude. Why not spend your summer diving deep into avian intelligence, taking parenting lessons from other species, or picturing yours...

Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris – The Book of Birds [Review]

A Celebration and a Call to Care A Review of The Book of Birds: A Field Guide to Wonder and […] The post Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris – The Book of Birds [Review] appeared f...

Little Birders, Big Lessons

Brianna Amingwa, is an environmental educator, co-organizer of Black Birders Week and mom of two little bird-loving boys. For Black Birders Week, Brianna shares moments of fun and...

Birding for a Better World

Molly Adams co-founded the Feminist Bird Club to try to make birding safer and more inclusive. Along with co-author Sydney Golden Anderson, Molly wrote a book called Birding for a...

HERONRY

On each spread, four poetic lines of text detail the birds’ breeding season, the use of present tense conveying a you-are-there immediacy. Wright’s accurate, freely sketched waterc...

A Bird’s IQ

Louis Lefebvre’s book A Bird’s IQ:  Innovation, Intelligence, and Problem Solving in the Avian World is engrossing, not to mention highly entertaining, by virtue of the many exampl...

Look, a hummingbird!

The Birds of Our Lives

I walk my dogs along the Potomac River most evenings. My route has become second nature, the curve of the path, the movement of the river, the parts of the walk I know by heart. Of...

Backyard bird rescue

For this writer, an encounter with nature during nesting season brings home lessons of persistence, loyalty, and wonder.

Collection of Bird Shapes: Western Australia, Autumn

Since I have been seeing such a wonderful response to my drawings that I put in my posts occasionally, I thought I would do a little summary of what has been happening in my sketch...

Little Bluebird

For our optional prompt of “Bird Feeder” today, I made a sketch of bluebird enjoying a little lunch break. The Eastern Bluebird is actually the state bird of Missouri where … Conti...

National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of the United States and Canada: A Field Guide Review

Before writing this review, I arranged my National Geographic birding books on my favorite bookshelf–field guides, pocket guides, encyclopedic guides, birding essentials, birding b...

Outdoors: Classic birding book updated with latest species accounts

If you’re in the market for an in-depth book on birding that takes a deep dive into our Toledo area feathered friends, then look no further than Matt Anderson’s Birds of the Toledo...

14 Charming Photos That Showcase the Beautiful Bonds Between Birds and Native Plants

A Wood Duck chomping on acorns. A migrating warbler resting among sagebrush. A wren building its nest within the spiky fortress of a cactus. These are just a few of the ways native...

Bird of the Day

A fleeting chink of a metallic call...