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What It's Like to Be a Bird: From Flying to Nesting, Eating to Singing--What Birds Are Doing, and Why (Sibley Guides) behavior and field companions
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items A focused collection of books that deepen and broaden the experience offered by What It's Like to Be a Bird: From Flying to Nesting, Eating to Singing--What Birds Are Doing, and Why (Sibley Guides). These picks emphasize behavior, identification, and...
Ideal for adults and older teens who are curious about the everyday lives of familiar birds. David Allen Sibley blends accessible science with large, detailed illustrations to explain how birds fly, feed, sing, and raise young. It pairs perfectly wit...
What It's Like to Be a Bird: Flying to Singing
Created for middle-grade readers and families who loved Sibley's adult volume but want something more approachable. The adapted text and layout simplify concepts while keeping the vivid art and core explanations about bird behavior. It's a great way ...
What It's Like to Be a Bird: Flying, Nesting, Eating
Best for readers who want a deeper, quasi-encyclopedic extension of the themes in Sibley's bird-behavior work. Organized by bird families, it explains anatomy, courtship, nesting, migration, and more, all supported by Sibley's illustrations. It compl...
The Sibley Guide to Bird Life & Behavior
A strong fit for newer birders who enjoyed Sibley's narrative style and want to build core identification skills. The book explains how to use shape, plumage, posture, and behavior to recognize birds more quickly and accurately. It bridges the gap be...
Sibley's Birding Basics: How to Identify Birds
Great for readers ready to move from casual observation into a more structured understanding of behavior. John Kricher walks through flight, molt, social interactions, breeding, and migration, explaining the evolutionary and ecological logic behind e...
Peterson Reference Guide To Bird Behavior ...
Designed for backyard enthusiasts who want a visually rich, all-in-one companion. It covers feeder visitors, song recognition, nesting, and garden design to attract and support local birds, along with creative bird-inspired projects. Readers who love...
Backyard Birdwatcher's Bible: Birds & Crafts
Targeted at readers who enjoy the "what it's like" perspective and want more on perception and cognition. Tim Birkhead explores how birds see, hear, smell, and navigate, drawing on decades of behavioral research. It complements Sibley's observational...
Bird Sense: What It's Like to Be a Bird
Well suited to backyard birders who want species-by-species explanations of behavior. Focusing on common North American birds, it offers narrative accounts of feeding, territoriality, courtship, and nesting that you can directly compare to what you s...
Stokes Guide to Bird Behavior, Vol 1
Ideal for readers who want a single, comprehensive reference to pair with Sibley's behavior-focused volume. It combines detailed species accounts, range maps, and photographs with notes on habitat, vocalizations, and key behaviors. This makes it a ro...
National Geographic Complete Birds of N. America
A good choice for those drawn to the aesthetic and cultural side of bird appreciation. Graeme Gibson gathers art, folklore, literature, and natural-history vignettes into a lavishly illustrated volume. It complements the scientific perspective in Sib...
The Bedside Book of Birds: Avian Miscellany