At our first-ever Unconvention in November, we included an open-mic session in which attendees could recommend their favorite bird books. Here are their recommendations - just in time for holiday giving!
Sense of Wonder by Rachel Carson
Field Notes from an Unintentional Birder by Julia Zarankin
Sibley Birding Basics by David Allen Sibley
The Laws Guide to Drawing Birds by John Muir Laws
The Birdman of Koshkonong: The Life of the Naturalist Thure Kumlien by Martha Bergland
A Supremely Bad Idea: Three Mad Birders and Their Quest to See It All by Luke Dempsey
Kingbird Highway: The Biggest Year in the Life of an Extreme Birder by Kenn Kaufman
Birding Babylon: A Soldier’s Journey from Iraq, by Jonathan Trouern-Trend
The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century, by Kirk Wallace Johnson
Extreme Birder: One Woman’s Big Year by Lynn E. Barber
Ravens in Winter by Bernd Heinrich
American Ornithology by Alexander Wilson
Woman, Watching: Louise de Kiriline Lawrence and the Songbirds of Pimisi Bay by Merilyn Simonds
