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What book would you recommend to a bird lover?

>> No.15004890

Tell us how you make love to a bird.

>> No.15004893

idk, what's your favorite bird? i like conures

>> No.15004916

>>15004878
The Genius of Birds by Jennifer Ackerman

>> No.15004924
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15004924

Pic rel, OP.

>> No.15004933

>>15004924
Legendary book on birds
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Birds_of_America

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>>15004890

The Romans of old knew how. Alas, it has become a lost art.

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This book is eminently readable.

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15004956

>Two birdwatchers survive a nuclear holocaust.

>> No.15004976

>>15004893

I'm a high-flying vulture man myself.

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>>15004949
This looks interesting.
I'm still trying to figure out what exactly birds are.

>> No.15005082

I think Franzen's "Freedom" has a lot of symbolic use of bird imagery, if that's what you're angling for.

>> No.15005111

The King of the Birds by Flannery O'Connor

>> No.15005114

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Birds_(play)
Also, I love flamingos

>> No.15005146

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Conference_of_the_Birds

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15005148

I don't know how J.A. Baker's The Peregrine wasn't the first to be recommended.

Reading it now and it's lovely. Almost the entire book is comprised of scenes that exclusively follow various birds and the ruthless hunting many of them undergo to survive. Fantastic scenes of peregrines stalking, killing, and systematically devouring other birds. Even though humans are hardly present, it's one of the most violent and brutal books I have read in a long time.

>> No.15005178

>>15005148
not OP but his looks kino, thanks for the rec.

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>>15004893
waxwings

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15005223

if you want to be sad

>> No.15005233

>>15005178
Seriously one of the most underrated prose stylists of all time.
"There is always a sense of loss, a feeling forgotten. There is nothing else here; no castles, no ancient monuments, no hills like green clouds. It is just a curve of earth, a rawness of winter fields. Dim, flat, desolate lands that cauterise all sorrow.”

>> No.15005235

>>15004878
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMKUlsJpov8

>> No.15005245
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>>15004893
bearded vulture

>> No.15006017

>>15004878
King Solomon's Ring (great first chapter on daws)

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>>15004878
Not all of it but the part where he and his girlfriend try to train an eagle to catch iguanas in Mexico is pretty bird kino.

>> No.15006049

Kes by Barry Hines
Sad end to the bird story but bongs are a chavvy bunch.
Great school soccer game chapter

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pic

>> No.15006073

>>15004924
kino

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15006155

Love the racist goshawk

>> No.15006273

>>15004878
Bird by Bird by Ann Lamott.

>> No.15006434

>>15004878
To Kill a Mockingbird.

>> No.15006443

>>15004878
Horus rising

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>>15006155
Speaking of T. H. White and goshawks

(Even White would tell you if he were still alive, this is not the correct way to train a goshawk.)

>> No.15006498

>>15006049
Kes is the movie.
A Kestrel for a Knave is the book.

>> No.15006900

The Obscene Bird of Night.

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15006959

Aubrey-Maturin series has quite a bit about birds in. Dr. Maturin is a naturalist and very fond of bustards. Cormorants and albatrosses also make appearances.
However he is also fond of sloths, don’t know how you feel about non avian fauna, anon.

>> No.15007179

>>15004878
Does it actually fly that high?
Why?

>> No.15007189

>>15006959
is this the guy the Master and Commander movie was based off of?

>> No.15007199

>>15007189
Yes

>> No.15007208

>>15007179
Pigeons can fly up to 6000 feet in altitude
Over 4 times as high as the Empire State Building.
They have to fully that high sometimes to find windows that haven’t been shit on.