/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.9277474]

Any good books on birds?

I like them a lot.

[Anonymous No.9277483]

I don't like them, but am interested in evolutionary biology. If that is your thing look up Tim Low "Where song began".

[Anonymous No.9277492]

To Kill a Mockingbird

[Anonymous No.9277494]

Birds are based

[blueeyeswhiteprivilege !8aWlqIh8lo No.9277496]

>>9277474
pal i like you a lot

check out the peregrine by ja baker

[Anonymous No.9277532]

my diary tbqh

[Anonymous No.9277560]

>>9277496
That looks really great, thanks!

[Anonymous No.9277564]

>>9277483
Why don't you like them?

[Anonymous No.9277570]

>>9277564
My brother died of bird flu

[Anonymous No.9277588]

>>9277570
That's caused by factory farming mostly though, it only happens when people bully birds.

Not the bird's fault.

[Anonymous No.9277593]

>>9277564
I was not >>9277570, it is just that I can't stand birders. Stupid reason I know, but it happens regardless.

[Anonymous No.9277596]

>>9277474
The Peregrine by J.A. Baker

[Anonymous No.9277602]

By the way, goodreads recommended me "The genius of birds", maybe something for you?

[Anonymous No.9277625]

>>9277596
yeah, this is exactly what youre looking for op

[Anonymous No.9277627]

>>9277596
This x 100. Everything Baker wrote.

[Anonymous No.9277677]

>>9277474
Birds are not that important.

[Anonymous No.9277681]

>>9277596
>>9277625
>>9277627

The wind-shred banner of the autumn light spanned the green headland between the two estuaries. The east wind drove drenching grey and silver showers through the frozen cider sky. Birds rose from ploughland as a merlin flew above them, small and brown and swift, lifting dark against the sky, dipping and swerving down along the furrows. All brown or stubbled fields shivered and glittered with larks: all green were pied with plover. Quiet lanes brindled with drifting leaves.
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To be recognised and accepted by a peregrine you must wear the same clothes, travel by the same way, perform actions in the same order. Like all birds, it fears the unpredictable. Enter and leave the same fields at the same time each day, soothe the hawk from its wildness by a ritual of behaviour as invariable as its own. Hood the glare of the eyes, hide the white tremor of the hands, shade the stark reflecting face, assume the stillness of a tree. A peregrine fears nothing he can see clearly and far off. Approach him across open ground with a steady unfaltering movement. Let your shape grow in size but do not alter its outline. Never hide yourself unless concealment is complete. Be alone. Shun the furtive oddity of man, cringe from the hostile eyes of farms. Learn to fear. To share fear is the greatest bond of all. The hunter must become the thing he hunts. What is, is now, must have the quivering intensity of an arrow thudding into a tree. Yesterday is dim and monochrome. A week ago you were not born. Persist, endure, follow, watch.

[Anonymous No.9277682]

>>9277496
>>9277596
>>9277625
>>9277627
>Robert Macfarlane deemed it to be "a masterpiece of twentieth-century non-fiction" in his introduction to the New York Review Books edition of the book.[1] On the back jacket cover of the same edition, James Dickey states that the book "transcends any 'nature writing' of our time," while Barry Lopez declares the book to be "one of the most beautifully written, carefully observed and evocative wildlife accounts I have ever read." Werner Herzog called it the "one book I would ask you to read if you want to make films,"[2] and said elsewhere "... it has prose of the caliber that we have not seen since Joseph Conrad."[3]

This is some serious bird lit it seems.

[Anonymous No.9277705]

>>9277602
Looks interesting, thank you. I like the New Caledonian crow, they are very good at tool making.

>>9277677
I disagree desu

[Anonymous No.9277710]

shut up bird niggas

[Anonymous No.9277711]

A Kestrel For A Knave

But get ready to feel feels

[Anonymous No.9277762]

>Oy, keep your voice down, mate, I think I heard a bird over there making a racket. Psshh. There he is, in the bushes, it's The Peregrine by J.A. Baker.

Wheew. Nerves of steel this guy.

[Anonymous No.9277782]

SKYLARK

[Anonymous No.9277980]

>>9277474

Try pic related.

Also:

>The Peregrine

A work of sublime poetic prose

[Anonymous No.9277990]

A Personal Matter by Kenzaburo Oe

[Anonymous No.9278018]

birds are the most beautiful creatures. they give me hope.

[Anonymous No.9278051]

>>9277474
non-fiction:
gill's ornithology
the sibley guide to bird life
both of these are highly readable
cornell's textbook is more technical

fiction:
>>9277596


>>9277602 reads like a blog post

[Anonymous No.9278328]

>>9277496
>trip can be interpreted as a play on bluewaterwhitedeath
>interest in ornithology
>usage of "pal"

Hey, didn't know Jonathan Meiburg browsed this place! Love your lyricism, Mangum pales in comparison.

[Anonymous No.9278420]

Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung

[Anonymous No.9278758]

Fuglane

[Anonymous No.9278770]

Did you go to bird school which is for birds?

[Anonymous No.9278783]

>>9278420
rude

[Anonymous No.9278810]

>>9278051
Meh. He condensed several years into one year and might have misidentified a bird behaving in an un Peregrine like way. It's still beautifully written and well over 90% accurate

[Anonymous No.9278891]

Kill all cats.

[Anonymous No.9278996]

>>9277474
birds are assholes

[Anonymous No.9279010]

The original James Bond was an expert on birds. His Birds of The West Indies is the definitive guide to the region.

[Anonymous No.9279054]

>>9277596
This.

Crow country by Mike cocker
H is for hawk
Kestrel for a knave

[Anonymous No.9279256]

i, too, like birds