Recommended Reading List

Compiled by Paul Woodcock

2021

1.  The Genius of Birds by Jennifer Ackerman, Penguin Books

2. The Bird Way: A new look at how birds talk, work, play, parent and think by Jennifer Ackerman, Penguin Books

3. Nature’s Best Hope: A new approach to conservation that starts at home by Douglas Bellamy, Timber Press

4. Pacific Flyway: Waterbird migration from the Arctic to Tierra del Fuego by Audrey DeLella Benedict, GeoffreyA. Hammerson and Robert Butler, Sasquatch Books

5. Gulls Simplified, A comparative approach to identification by Pete Dunne and Kevin Karlson, Princeton

6. White Feathers: The nesting lives of Tree Swallows by Bernd Heinrich, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

7. Peterson Reference Guide to Bird Behavior by John Kircher, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

8. Birdsong: your guide to listening, by Don Kroodsma, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

9. Where Song Began by Tim Low, Yale University Press

10. In Search of Meadowlarks: Birds, farms and food in harmony the land by John Marzluff, Yale University Press

11. What It’s Like to Be a Bird by David Allen Sibley, Alfred A. Knopf

12. Bird Love: The family life of birds by Wenfei Tong, Princeton

13. Photography: Birds, field techniques and the art of image by Gerrit Vyn, Mountaineers Press