Top 10 Best "Ornithology" Books

Cambridge Encyclopedia of Ornithology (A Cambridge Reference Book)

Michael Brooke
Tim Birkhead

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Birds

Jonathan Elphick
Dr. Robert Prys-Jones

Ornithology

Birds

This breathtaking collection of important and beautiful ornithological art from London's Natural History Museum traces its development from the Renaissance through the scientific approach favored in the Age of Exploration. Included are brilliantly reproduced artworks by the world's great naturalists and scientists such as Audubon and Humboldt, along with the legion of Victorian explorers who catalogued the world's avifauna before photography finally prevailed as the primary means of recording the natural world. The lively and informative text tells how ornithological art grew out of the naturalistic tradition of European painting to become a genre of its own where the artist's focus on aesthetics was married to the scientist's need for precision and detail. Weaving together science, art history, biography, and travel, it paints a wondrous picture of a bygone world of artist-scientists, exotic birds, and faraway lands, making it truly the perfect gift for anyone who loves vintage prints and drawings or has an interest in nature or birding.

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Essays on early ornithology and kindred subjects

James Roxburgh McClymont

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Cornell Lab of Ornithology Handbook of Bird Biology

Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology

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By Frank B. Gill

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Essential Ornithology

Graham Scott

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Frank B. Gill

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National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America, Fifth Edition

Jon L. Dunn
Jonathan Alderfer

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Bird Feathers

S. David Scott
Casey McFarland

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Ornithology in Laboratory and Field, Fifth Edition

Olin Sewall Pettingill Jr.

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The Wisdom of Birds

What the birds have taught us: a gorgeously rendered and comprehensive history of ornithology, from folklore to facts—the perfect gift for bird enthusiasts everywhere.

Leading ornithologist Tim Birkhead takes readers on a journey through the wonderful world of birds: conception and egg, territory and song, breeding and migration. In the process, he reveals how birders have overcome centuries-old superstitions and untested truths to achieve a firmer understanding of birds. He also details when and how this knowledge was first acquired, detailing the various myths and misconceptions that were believed to be true throughout the ages and when they were finally corrected.

Conceived for a general audience, and illustrated throughout with more than one hundred exquisitely beautiful illustrations, many of them rarely if ever seen before, The Wisdom of Birds is a book full of stories, knowledge, and unexpected revelations. Engaging and accessible, it is an illustrated history of birds—and all they have taught us.

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The Wisdom of Birds

Tim Birkhead

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Manual of Ornithology

Noble S. Proctor
Mr. Patrick J. Lynch

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