📚 Bird Watching

30 works · ordered by editions in print

Identification in the field: the binocular, the life list, and the patience that pays off in sightings.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject bird watching in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Title	Author	First published	Editions
Bird neighbors	Neltje Blanchan	1898	26
The big year	Mark Obmascik	2004	16
A field guide to western birds	Roger Tory Peterson	1941	12
Birds through an opera-glass	Florence Augusta Merriam Bailey	1889	9
The life of birds	David Attenborough	1998	9
Superdove	Courtney Humphries	2008	9
Field book of birds of the southwestern United States	Luther E. Wyman	1916	8
Bird-watching and bird behaviour	Julian Huxley	1930	8
Lost woods	Rachel Carson	1998	7
Bird watching	Edmund Selous	1901	6
Bird spotting	John Holland	1963	6
Kingbird highway	Kenn Kaufman	1997	6
Birders	Mark Cocker	2001	6
A guide to bird watching	Joseph J. Hickey	1943	5
How to Attract, House and Feed Birds	Walter E. Schutz	1970	5
The Western Bird Watcher	Kevin J. Zimmer	1985	5
Birder's guide to Texas	Edward A. Kutac	1989	5
Behind the Binoculars	Mark Avery	2015	5
The bird book / A. J. R. Roberts	Arthur James Rooker Roberts	1903	4
Island going	Robert Atkinson	1949	4
In search of birds	Jim Flegg	1983	4
The Birdwatcher's Book of Lists	Lester L. Short	1987	4
Biographies for birdwatchers	Barbara Mearns	1988	4
Watching Birds	Ann M. Taylor	1999	4
Sylvia Warblers	Hadoram Shirihai	2001	4
Sibley's birding basics	David Sibley	2002	4
Biggest Twitch	Alan Davies	2010	4
Birdwatcher's Dictionary	Peter Weaver	2010	4
Joy of Birdwatching	Alan Davies	2015	4
Birding Without Borders	Noah Strycker	2017	4

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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