Bird ID refs:

• Beolens, Bo & Michael Watkins, Whose Bird?, Yale Univeristy Press 2003.
• Garrigues, Richard and Robert Dean The Birds of Costa Rica, Cornell University Press , Ithaca, New York, 2007.
• Hawaii Audubon Society, Hawaii's Birds, 6th Edit., Hawaii Audubon Society, 2005.
• Jobling, James A., A Dictionary of Scientific Names, Oxford University Press, Oxfore, 1991.
• Kenefick, Martyn, Robin Restall and Floyd Hayes, Field Guide to the Bords of Trinidad & Tobago, Yale University Press, 2007.
• Kennedy, Adam Scott, Birds of the Masai Mara, Princeton University Press, 2012.
• Kennedy, Adam Scott, Birds of Kenya's Rift Valley, Princeton University Press, 2014.
• Lederer, Roger & Carol Burr Latin for Bird Lovers, Timber Press, Portland, 2014.
• Myers, Susan, Birds of Borneo, Princeton University Press, 2009.
• Ridgely, Robert S and Paul J. Greenfield, The Birds of Ecuador, Cornell University Press 2001
• Ridgely Robert S., John A. Gwynne, Guy Tudor, and Martha Argel, Birds of Brazil, Cornell University Press, 2016.
• Robinns, CS et al., Birds of North America, Golden Press, 1966 and St. Martins's Press, 2001 NY
• Robson, Craig, Birds of Thailand, Princeton Univeristy Press, 2002.
• Schulenberg, TS, DF Stoltz, DF Lane, JP O'neill & TA Parker III, Birds of Peru, Princeton University Press 2007.
• Sibley, DA, The Sibley Guide to Birds, 2nd Edit., Alfred A. Knopf, NY 2014.
• Slater, P, P Slater & R Slater, Australian Birds, 2nd Edit., Reed New Holland 2009.
• Svenson, L, K Mullarney & D Zetterstrom, Birds of Europe, 2nd Edit., Princeton University Press, 2009.
• van Perlo, Ber, Birds of Brazil, Oxford University Press, 2009.
• Zimmerman, DA, DA Turner & DJ Pearson, Birds of Kenya, Princeton University Press, 1999.

Also numerous websites including:

• Audobon - http://www.audubon.org/
• Cornell Lab of Ornithology - http://www.birds.cornell.edu
• iBird Pro - http://www.ibirdexplorer.com
• Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
• xeno-canto - http://www.xeno-canto.org

Some suggested readings:

• Adler, Jr, Bill, The Quotable Birder, The Lyons Press, 2001. A fountain of bird quotes.)
• Birkhead, Tim, Jo Wimpenny, Bob Montgomerie, The Thousand Birds, Princeton University Press, Princeton, 2014. (Scholarly account of the history of ornithology.)
• Bevis, John, aaaaw to zzzzzd, MIT Press, 2010. (Shows you how to talk to birds...has wonderful introductory chapters.)
• Blue, Debbie, Consider the Birds, Abingdon Press, 2013. (Enjoyable, interesting and witty take on birds in the bible...great reading with wonderful quotes.)
• Brinkley, Douglas, The Wilderness Warrier - Theodore Roosevelt, Harper, New York, 2009. (Another side of the president who saved over 230 million acres of American wilderness.)
• Brunner, Bernd, Birdmania, Greystone Books, 2017. (Fascinating stories, well-written, highley recommended, makes a great gift.)
• Bryson, Bill, In a Sunburned Country, Broadway Books, New York 2000. (Informative and great fun to read even if your not planning on a VENT tour to Australia with Dion Hobcroft.)
• Bryson, Bill, A Walk in the Woods, Anchor Books, New York 1998. (Before hiking the Appalachian Trail, read this book.)
• Burrows, Steve A Siege of Bitterns, Point Blank, Canada 2014. Well done, great fun for birders and/or those who enjoy murder mysteries. Five other books in this series are also recommended.
• Carlson, Douglas, Roger Tory Peterson, Univ of Texas, Austin 2007. (RTP is a hero to every birder and every environmentalist.)
• Clare, Horatio, A Single Swallow, Vintage Books 2010. (About a rather quirky but very interesting trek...with a surprise ending.)
• Emanuel, Victor, One More Warbler, University of Texas Press, 2017. (A full life by a true pioneer in modern-day birding and guided bird tours, i.e., VENT.)
• Halle, Louis J. Spring in Washington, Johns Hopkins Univ Press 1947, 1956. (Shows you how to appreciate and enjoy spring.)
• Hanson, Thor, Feathers, Basic Books, Philadelphia 2011. (Fascinating...feathers are remarkable.)
• Gallagher, Tim, Imperial Dreams, Atria Books New York 2013. (A page-turner showing how some birds become extinct and about the murderous narcotraficantes in Mexico.)
• Jobling, James A, A Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names, Oxford University Press,1991. (Very complete translation list of bird scientific names.)
• Kaufman, Kenn, Kingbird Highway, Houghton Miflin, Boston New York 2006. (A legendary book about extreme, big-year, birding.)
• Lederer, Roger and Carol Burr, Latin for Bird Lovers, Timber Press, 2014. (Curious about scientific bird names? Here are the answers.)
• Macdonald, Helen, H is for Hawk, Grove Press 2014 (Time Magazine top-rating for non-fiction in 2015; a New York Times bestseller. Will make you wonder about goshawks).
• McKibben, Bill, Eearth, Times Books, New York 2001.(Read this book...before it's too late.)
• Obmascik, Mark, The Big Year, Free Press 2004. (An easy read...made into a wonderful movie you should see with Steve Martin, Jack Black and Owen Wilson.)
• Prum, Richard O. The Evolution of Beauty, Doubleday, 2017. (Scholarly and a bit dense but nonetheless thought-provoking.)
• Reilly, John, The Ascent of Birds, Pelagic Publishing, Exeter, UK 2018. (If you wonder where birds came from, you must read this book.)
• Stryker, Noah, The Thing with Feathers, Riverhead Books, New York 2014. (Fascinating vignettes, i.s., chapters on the the Body, Mind and Spirit of birds.)
• Weidensaul, Scott, Living on the Wind, North Point Press, 1999. (A must read for birders.)
• Weidensaul, Scott, Of a Feather, Harcourt, U.S. 2007. (This book has my highest recommendation by a great writer.)
• White, Lisa, Ed., Good Birders Don't Wear White, Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston, 2007. (50 birding tips from whimsical to serious but all helpful from many top birders. A fun read.