Below are links to the most helpful identification guides, reference books, stimulating novels, and helpful birding apps I use while birding and researching for my articles.

Several of these books, especially novels, are available in physical paper form, electronically for Kindle, and in audio format through Audible. So, make sure you select your preferred method of bird knowledge before purchasing!

– Field Identification Guides –

Amazon.com: The Sibley Guide to Birds, 2nd Edition (Sibley Guides)

Amazon.com: The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Eastern North America: Second Edition (Sibley Guides)

Amazon.com: Sibley Birds West: Field Guide to Birds of Western North America

Amazon.com: National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America, 7th Edition

Amazon.com: National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Birds: Eastern Region, Revised Edition

Amazon.com: Kaufman Field Guide to Birds of North America

Amazon.com: Peterson Field Guide To Birds Of Eastern & Central North America, Seventh Ed. (Peterson Field Guides)

Amazon.com: Birds of Central America: Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama (Princeton Field Guides, 136)

Amazon.com: Birds of the West Indies Second Edition (Princeton Field Guides, 143)

Amazon.com: Belize Bird Guide (Laminated Foldout Pocket Field Guide) (English and Spanish Edition)

Amazon.com: Backyard Birds (Peterson Field Guides: Young Naturalists)

– Reference Books –

Amazon.com: What It’s Like to Be a Bird: From Flying to Nesting, Eating to Singing – What Birds Are Doing, and Why (Sibley Guides)

Amazon.com: Handbook of Bird Biology (Cornell Lab of Ornithology) 3rd Edition

Amazon.com: The Backyard Birdwatcher’s Bible: Birds, Behaviors, Habitats, Identification, Art & Other Home Crafts

Amazon.com: Peterson Field Guide To Bird Sounds Of Eastern North America (Peterson Field Guides)

Amazon.com: Bird Songs: 250 North American Birds in Song

Amazon.com: A Birder’s Guide to Florida

Amazon.com: The Bird Name Book: A History of English Bird Names

Amazon.com: Sibley’s Birding Basics: How to Identify Birds, Using the Clues in Feathers, Habitats, Behaviors, and Sounds (Sibley Guides)

– Novels –

Amazon.com: To See Every Bird on Earth: A Father, a Son, and a Lifelong Obsession

Amazon.com: One Wild Bird At A Time: Portraits of Individual Lives

Amazon.com: The Big Year: A Tale of Man, Nature, and Fowl Obsession

Amazon.com: A Most Remarkable Creature: The Hidden Life and Epic Journey of the World’s Smartest Birds of Prey

Amazon.com: The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century

Amazon.com: In the Company of Crows and Ravens

Amazon.com: The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time

Amazon.com: Birding Without Borders: An Obsession, a Quest, and the Biggest Year in the World

Amazon.com: Vesper Flights

Amazon.com: The Genius of Birds

Amazon.com: The Bird Way: A New Look at How Birds Talk, Work, Play, Parent, and Think

Amazon.com: Birds by the Shore: Observing the Natural Life of the Atlantic Coast

Amazon.com: The Thing with Feathers: The Surprising Lives of Birds and What They Reveal About Being Human

Amazon.com: The Bedside Book of Birds: An Avian Miscellany

Amazon.com: The Hawk’s Way: Encounters with Fierce Beauty

Amazon.com: The Bald Eagle: The Improbable Journey of America’s Bird

Amazon.com: The Galápagos: A Natural History

Amazon.com: A World on the Wing: The Global Odyssey of Migratory Birds

Amazon.com: Beaks, Bones & Bird Songs: How the Struggle for Survival Has Shaped Birds and Their Behavior

Amazon.com: The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinction

Amazon.com: Mind of the Raven: Investigations and Adventures with Wolf-Birds

Amazon.com: Around the World in 80 Birds

Amazon.com: The Glitter in the Green: In Search of Hummingbirds

Amazon.com: Owls of the Eastern Ice: A Quest to Find and Save the World’s Largest Owl

Amazon.com: The Hummingbirds’ Gift: Wonder, Beauty, and Renewal on Wings

Amazon.com: How to Know the Birds: The Art and Adventure of Birding

Amazon.com: H Is for Hawk

– Historic Importance –

Amazon.com: The Annotated Malay Archipelago

Amazon.com: The Origin of Species

Amazon.com: The Voyage of the Beagle: (Classics Illustrated and Annotated)

Amazon.com: Birds – Part III – The Zoology of the Voyage of H.M.S Beagle ; Under the Command of Captain Fitzroy – During the Years 1832 to 1836 (3)

Amazon.com: Darwin’s Finches (Cambridge Science Classics)

Amazon.com: John James Audubon’s The Birds of America

Amazon.com: Peregrine 50th Anniversary Edition

– Apps –

Google Play Store: eBird by Cornell Lab

Apple App Store: eBird by Cornell Lab

Google Play Store: Merlin Bird ID by Cornell Lab

Apple App Store: Merlin Bird ID by Cornell Lab

Google Play Store: Sibley Birds 2nd Edition

Apple App Store: Sibley Birds 2nd Edition

Apple App Store: Audubon Bird Guide

Google Play Store: Audubon Bird Guide

Apple App Store: iNaturalist

Google Play Store: iNaturalist

Apple App Store: BirdNET

Google Play Store: BirdNET

Apple App Store: FeederWatch by Cornell Lab

Google Play Store: FeederWatch by Cornell Lab