📚 Birds & Ornithology

Feathers, flight and song — how birds are classified and identified, and why they are the living dinosaurs closest to home.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject birds 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.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	The Birds of America	John James Audubon	1827	83
	The Burgess bird book for children	Thornton W. Burgess	1919	44
	Handbuch Der Oologie	Max Schoenwetter	1960	40
	Wake-Robin	John Burroughs	1871	36
	Bird neighbors	Neltje Blanchan	1898	26
	Birds of the West Indies	James Bond	1936	25
	A history of British birds	Thomas Bewick	1797	24
	Bird (Eyewitness Guide)	David Burnie	1988	19
	The outermost house	Henry Beston	1928	16
	The big year	Mark Obmascik	2004	16
	The genius of birds	Jennifer Ackerman	2016	16
	Birds	Herbert S. Zim	1949	15
	Bird guide	Lars Svensson	1998	15
	Birds in London	W. H. Hudson	1898	13
	A field guide to western birds	Roger Tory Peterson	1941	12
	A field guide to the birds of Britain and Europe	Roger Tory Peterson	1954	12
	An egg is quiet	Dianna Hutts Aston	2006	12
	Birds of North America	Chandler S. Robbins	1966	11
	Handbook of the birds of India and Pakistan	Sálim Ali	1968	11
	Birds of the World (Smithsonian Handbooks)	Colin James Oliver Harrison	1993	9
	The birds of Canada	W. Earl Godfrey	1966	8
	The book of Indian birds	Sálim Ali	1946	7
	Ornithology	Austin Loomer Rand	1967	7
	Birds	Angela Royston	1992	7
	The beak of the finch	Jonathan Weiner	1994	6
	The Eagle and the Wren (A Michael Neugebauer Book)	Jane Goodall	2000	6
	Birds for Dummies	Gina Spadafori	1999	5
	The Sibley guide to bird life & behavior	David Sibley	2001	5
	A photographic guide to the birds of Indonesia	Morten Strange	2001	5
	Bird sense	T. R. Birkhead	2012	5

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 06 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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