Bird Feeding Month

🐦 February is National Bird Feeding Month, and also features the annual Great Backyard Bird Count! 🐦‍⬛

Updated December 18, 2025
Westchester Library System Mount Pleasant Public Library
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What it's like to be a bird : from flying to nesting, eating to singing -- what birds are doing, and why
Sibley, David 1961-
Paper Book
The bird book for birders and nonbirders alike that will excite and inspire by providing a new and deeper understanding of what common, mostly backyard, birds are doing-and why- "Can birds smell?"; "Is this the same cardinal that was at my feeder last year?"; "Do robins 'hear' worms?"
Slow birding : the art and science of enjoying the birds in your own backyard
Strassmann, Joan
Ebook
A one-of-a-kind guide to birding locally that encourages readers to slow down and notice the spectacular birds all around them. Many birders travel far and wide to popular birding destinations to catch sight of rare or "exotic" birds. In Slow Birding, evolutionary...
The backyard bird chronicles
Tan, Amy
Paper Book
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * From the author of The Joy Luck Club comes a gorgeous and witty exploration of birding and nature. This inspiring work cultivates hope and connection, revealing the rhythms of our world and uncovering its beauty hidden in plain sight. * With a foreword...
Vesper flights : new and collected essays
Macdonald, Helen 1970-
Paper Book
From the New York Times bestselling author of H is for Hawk and winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize for nonfiction, comes a transcendent collection of essays about the human relationship to the natural world. Animals don't exist in order to teach us things, but that is what they have always...
The hawk's way : encounters with fierce beauty
Montgomery, Sy
Audiobook
One Wild Bird at a Time : Portraits of Individual Lives
Heinrich, Bernd.
Paper Book
The acclaimed scientist's encounters with individual wild birds, yielding "marvelous, mind-altering" (Los Angeles Times) insights and discoveries In his modern classics One Man's Owl and Mind of the Raven, Bernd Heinrich has written...
How to attract birds to your garden
Rouse, Dan
Ebook
Bird sense : what it's like to be a bird
Birkhead, Tim.
Ebook
What is it like to be a swift, flying at over one hundred kilometres an hour? Or a kiwi, plodding flightlessly among the humid undergrowth in the pitch dark of a New Zealand night? And what is going on inside the head of a nightingale as it sings, and how does its brain improvise? ...

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