GlobalBird.Net: Bird Resources

General Subjects

More Than a Meal: The Turkey in History, Myth, Ritual and Reality/Karen Davis, Ph.D. (Lantern Books), 2001. Also, see The Holocaust and the Henmaid's Tale by the same author (Lantern Books), 2005, on the poultry and egg industry.

The pig who sang to the moon: the emotional world of farm animals/Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson (Ballantine Books, New York, NY USA), 2003. Includes chickens, turkeys, ducks and geese.

Eye of the albatross: visions of hope and survival/Carl Safina (Henry Holt & Co., New York, NY USA), 2002.

The birds of heaven: travels with cranes/Peter Matthiessen (North Point Press, New York, NY 10003 USA), 2001.

The bird almanac: the ultimate guide to essential facts and figures of the world's birds/David M. Bird (Firefly Books, Buffalo, NY 14205 USA), 1999.

The American robin/Roland H. Wauer (University of Texas Press, Austin, TX 78713 USA), 1999. [Also, The Prairie Falcon/ Stanley H. Anderson and John R. Squires, 1997; The cardinal/June Osborne, 1992 and other publications in the Corrie Herring Hooks Series].

Eyewitness Handbooks: Birds of the world/Colin Harrison and Alan Greensmith (DK Publishing, Inc., New York , NY 10016 USA), 1993.

Finding birds around the world/Peter Alden and John Gooders (Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston, MA, USA), 1981.

Art, Literature

Painting birds step by step/Bart Rulon (North Light Books, Cincinnati OH 45207 USA), 1996 [also, Artist's photo reference: birds, 1999].

The art of bird illustration/Maureen Lambourne (Knickerbocker Press, New York, NY 10001 USA), 1997.

The Peregrine sketchbook/C. F. Tunnicliffe (Excellent Press, London), 1996.

A fowl alphabet/Alan James Robinson and Suzanne Moore (Chronicle Books, San Francisco CA 94103 USA), 1988 [wood engravings and watercolor portraits with text from Animate Creation by Rev. J. G. Wood, 1885].

Birds: an anthology of poems and prose/Winston Elstob, ed. (Turtle's Quill Scriptorium, distributed by Scrimshaw Press, San Francisco, CA 94103), 1971.

Companionship

Messages from an owl/Max R. Terman (Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ 08540 USA), 1996 [hand-rearing and return to the wild of a great horned owl; video available from author].

Friends from the forest/Joy Adamson (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, New York, NY), 1981 [chapter on Verreaux's eagle owls].

The year of the greylag goose/Konrad Lorenz (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, New York and London), 1979 [observation and photographic record of a hand-reared flock]. Also, King Solomon's Ring (Thomas Y. Crowell Co., New York, NY 10003 USA), 1952 [chapters on jackdaws].

Gifts of an eagle/Kent Durden (Simon and Schuster, New York, NY 10020 USA), 1972. Also, Flight to freedom, 1974 [golden eagle: rearing in captivity and return to the wild].

North American falconry and hunting hawks/Frank L. Beebe and Harold M. Webster (North American Falconry and Hunting Hawks, Denver, CO 80201 USA), 1964 [material on bird care, human-bird companionship, lureflying].

Backyard Birds

Natural gardening for birds: Simple ways to create a bird haven/Julie Zickefoose and the Editors and Writers of Bird Watcher's Digest (Rodale, Emmaus, PA 18908 USA), 2001.

Hand-feeding chickadees/Hugh Wiberg (Storey Books, Pownal, VT 05261 USA), 1999 [other inexpensive backyard nature titles available].

Birdhouses and feeders you can make: complete plans and instructions for bird-friendly nesting and feeding sites/Paul Gerhards (Stackpole Books, Mechanicsburg, PA 17055 USA), 1999.

Attracting birds to your backyard: 536 ways to turn your yard and garden into a haven for your favorite birds/Sally Roth (Rodale, Emmaus, PA 18098 USA), 1998.

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