Birding is a great year round activity — and that includes the winter! You can choose to just look out your kitchen window, or strap on a pair of snowshoes and bird while you trample the snow! Before you begin, check out these resources on birding, bird behavior, and all things bird related.
What it is Like to Be a Bird by David Allen Sibley
The Sibley Guide to Birds: North America’s Definitive Guide to Birding by David Allen Sibley
The Bird Way: A New Look at How Birds Talk, Work, Play, Parent and Think by Jennifer Ackerman
The Genius of Birds by Jennifer Ackerman
The Thing With Feathers: The Surprising Life of Birds and What They Reveal about Being Human by Noah Stryker
Birding Without Borders: An Obsession, A Quest, And the Biggest Year in the World by Noah Stryker (and ebook)
Gifts of the Crow: How Perception, Emotion, and Thought Allow Smart Birds to Behave Like Humans by John Marzluff and Tony Angell
Owls of the Eastern Ice: A Quest to Find and Save the World’s Largest Owl by Jonathan C. Slaught
Birds of the West: An Artist’s Guide by Molly Hashimoto
Birdology by Sy Montgomery
Vesper Flights: New and Collected Essays by Helen MacDonald (ebook & eaudio)
Mozart’s Starling by Lyanda Lynn Haupt (ebook & eaudio)
For Something Different- Check out these titles!
Field Guide to Dumb Birds of North America by Matt Kracht
Hollow Kingdom by Kira Jane Buxton (ebook & eaudio)