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The Birdwatching Books

Alex & Me: How a Scientist and a Parrot Discovered a Hidden World of Animal I...
by Irene M. Pepperberg
Amazon Price: $14.37
Customer Reviews:
» I think it is a very moving and thought provoking memoir and it should be required reading in high schools especially for people interested in science. Sheds new light on animal intelligence and the ...

» This book is well written. It can be a bit dry in places but overall it is enjoyable to read.


» I have ordered more than a dozen copies of this book; they will be gifts this year. Irene Pepperberg is science to the core. For thirty years she maintained a caring and respectful relationship with A...

» Alex and Me, an avian memoir was such a joy to listen to. The reader was terrific. The story was poignant and funny at the same time.

About the book - POSSIBLE SPOILERS

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» A few years ago when I was in grad school I knew slightly a woman who was the hearing child of deaf parents. While at Stanford she was one of the students who worked with Koko, the famous signing gor...

Wesley the Owl: The Remarkable Love Story of an Owl and His Girl
by Stacey O'Brien
Amazon Price: $13.80
Customer Reviews:
» This was a great book. The insights into the Owls mind and daily life was so cool.
How he bonded with her, loved her and thought Stacy was his life mate was so neat and touching.
I loved ...

» The story of Wesley the Owl is a fantastic read for any animal lover, and especially avian lovers. The human/animal connection Stacey shares with Wesley, and the stories she tells of that connection a...

» I absolutely loved this book. Read it straight through in one night and can't get it out of my head. It's a beautiful story, beautifully written. And Stacey O'Brien is such an extraordinary person. It...

» Wesley the Owl is an awesome book that is full of adventure, humor, love, and detail between Stacy Obrien and her owl Wesley. I never knew that an owls life was so complex! Stacy throws so much deta...

» I know I'm going to get blasted for writing a negative review, but I just couldn't like this book. As an animal lover, as are most of the people who will read this book, I expected to like it, I want...

Bird Songs: 250 North American Birds in Song
by Les Beletsky
Amazon Price: $31.50
Customer Reviews:
» this book was even better than i expected. they should do the same thing with frog sounds.

» The good: A lot of birds covered and very easy to use.

The bad: Sound quality is not great. Looks a bit cheap.

» I bought this item as a gift for my disabled mother who spends here days looking out the windows at birds in her backyard. She's always looking them up and naming them. Now she can sit in the backyard...

» I bought this for my gran daughter. It has wonderful pictures and you can also push the button and hear the birds call. It is interesting to see the birds that can now be identified so easily. She ...

» For birders with aging eyes needing to sharpen voice identification, this book is a big help, particularly if you have a place to sit because the book is much too heavy and awkward to carry in the fie...

Birdscapes: A Pop-Up Celebration of Bird Songs in Stereo Sound
by Miyoko Chu, Cornell Lab of Omithology
Amazon Price: $48.00
Customer Reviews:
» This book actually made me cry when I first opened it, it is such an amazing, beautiful collection of sights and sounds!

Everybody I showed it to reacted with awe, which is pretty rare wi...

» You've probably seen Chronicle Books' Bird Songs from Around the World book. It's the one that lets you type in a number of a bird to hear the bird's song or call. Their latest book, Birdscapes: A Pop...

» Chronicle Books and the Cornell Lab of Ornithology produced the excellent Birdsongs books that display a particular bird and then play their songs with the push of a button. Birdscapes is the newest b...

» As soon as this book came out of the box my kids were all over it--they loved the complex pop-up landscapes, as well as the bird calls. The folks at work were also sucked in. This is more of a bird ...

» Oprah's mag calls it "a chirping, twittering, cawing, trilling love of a pop-up book" in their December issue, and I couldn't tweet louder in agreement. Can't wait to wrap this up and transform my fam...

Audubon Engagement Calendar 2009
by National Audubon Society
Amazon Price: $10.39
Customer Reviews:
» This is the 10th year I've used this calendar, not because I'm a Society member, but because of the quality of the book. Its size (approx. 10x6)makes it portable, but each page has one week. I use the...

» This engagement calendar is both useful and beautiful, combining gorgeous photographs with adequate space for notes.

» These photos have more universal appeal and are more 'grand' than the 2008 Audubon Engagement Calendar. My clients have had the pleasant difficulty of limiting their choices to only the number we nee...

The Backyard Birdsong Guide: Eastern and Central North America (Backyard Bird...
by Donald Kroodsma
Amazon Price: $24.95
Customer Reviews:
» Any home library strong in field guides probably has more than one bird book; but this is something different, offering an interactive format in audio word as well as written language and visual image...

» What a great book. It makes it easy to learn the songs of so many birds! My grandkids love it! Just what I hoped it would be, and great service by seller.

» North American Backyard Birdsong Guide is a Wonderful book for older children and also adults. It becomes a wonderful lesson to hear and see the birds.

» What a novel idea, a picture book of birds which not only informs the reader about each one BUT also has the sounds made by each bird with some giving both the male and female tune. This is not the r...

» Fantastic guide! We use it with our grandchildren and let them use the binoculars to see if they can find any of the birds they saw in the book. Hearing the bird calls and reading about their habitats...

National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America, Fifth Edition
by Jon L. Dunn, Jonathan Alderfer
Amazon Price: $16.32
Customer Reviews:
» Guide Book of Birds! We needed to be able to identify all the birds we feed all winter long. This book so far has been OK! R Straw Md.

» One of my college professors recommended this book. It is fantastic. Good descriptions great pictures. Very good buy.

» I am very pleased with this book. It is well written and the illustrations are fantastic. I've learned more about birds since this purchase, it's terrific. I've been eager to understand more about ...

» This book is first-rate. I tend to favor wildlife books that depict their subjects in paintings and drawings, rather than photos, and this book is rich in mini-masterpieces. I haven't yet gotten int...

» This is a well organized field guide with an excellent index. The illustrations are also very well done.

Are You My Mother?
by P.D. Eastman
Amazon Price: $8.99
Customer Reviews:
» While i can understand the usefulness of this book for parents of adopted children, when i was little i thought it was just AWFUL!

I always hated that book, and it made me terrified of g...

» This is the one of my 19 month's old favorite book. He will point to it and say "Mama Book" and will sit still listening to me reading this book from the beginning to the end. He loves the pictures an...

» Are You My Mother?

This is a great book for young children. I loved it as a child and my grandsons love it.



» We adopted a little girl from abroad. She is still a toddler and too young to discuss adoption. We got her this book to see how she would react. It has become her favorite that she MUST have read t...

» The years haven't been kind to this book. The illustrations are somewhat dated and, judging by the other reviews here on Amazon, there's an angry contingent of parents with abandonment issues who woul...

Peterson Field Guide to Birds of North America (Peterson Field Guides(R))
by Roger Tory Peterson
Amazon Price: $15.22
Customer Reviews:
» This is the best field i.d. book i have seen. It has many different views for each species of bird and all the info needed about each. Couldn't ask for a better field guide.

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Exceptional guide. Link to pod cast is easy to access. Maps easy to follow.

» Over many years I have prefered the Peterson field guides to birds over all the other authors. What I like best are the arrows that simplify identification. The arrows are especially useful for begi...

» There is no disputing the fact that Roger Tory Peterson did more than any other person in bringing Birdwatching to the attention,passion and popularity of so many people during his lifetime.
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» The book was just what I was looking for. The beautifully detailed pictures help me pick out the birds I'm looking at.

Audubon 365 Songbirds and Other Backyard Birds Picture-A-Day Calendar 2009 (P...
by National Audubon Society
Amazon Price: $10.39
Customer Reviews:
» Searching for the 365-day Audubon Bird calendar as a gift. I thought this was it. Sure, I read the "wall-calendar" bit, but never having seen one and familiar only with the desired "page-a-day" calend...

» I should have read the description:wall calendar. I was looking for the tablet calendar with a page (and new bird) each day. That item doesn't appear to be available this year.

» I had this calendar for 2008 and loved seeing all of the beautiful pictures of the birds on every day of the month. I will definitely order it for 2009.