Recs if you like The Return of the Oystercatcher: Saving Birds to Save the Planet...

🦅🦜🦢🐧🦉🦩🐦‍⬛ Books about ✨BIRDS!!!✨ beautiful, strange, silly, magical creatures.

Nonfiction books exploring the natural world and our “place in the family of things” (Mary Oliver, Wild Geese). 🐦‍⬛🦋🌱🪸🦊🪷🪼🍄

books with birds as main characters, books about the habits of birds and books on birding

fiction and non fiction

Nonfiction books exploring water and the life it sustains. Oceans, lakes, fish, and more.

All the books on the Conservation and Nature Writing longlists for the 2026 Wainwright Prize. (non-fiction)

Non-Fiction books about birds, their brains, their feathers, their behavior, how they survive and much more. This list ranges from adult books to childrens/middlegrade and from the tiniest backyard birds to parrots and birds of prey.

I made this list as i noticed many existing bird lists contain fiction or non-bird books. I tried to curate this list in a way that each book is non-fiction and atleast 90% about birds. *I have not read all of these if a book is misplaced let me know, suggestions a