The most popular birds books of 2023

Books about birds are for anyone who has stopped to watch one. Memoirs of training a hawk or following a migration sit beside novels in which birds bring comfort or omen. They are patient, observant books that send you outside with your eyes turned upward. This list shows the ones first published in 2023.

Cover of Message in a Bottle Ocean Dispatches from a Seabird Biologist

Message in a Bottle Ocean Dispatches from a Seabird Biologist

Holly Hogan

Published 2023

304 pages

Cover of Grandpa and the Kingfisher

Grandpa and the Kingfisher

Anna Wilson

Published 2023

32 pages

Cover of Birding Under the Influence Cycling Across America in Search of Birds and Recovery

Birding Under the Influence Cycling Across America in Search of Birds and Recovery

Dorian Anderson

Published 2023

272 pages

Cover of 103 Ways to Find Birds

103 Ways to Find Birds

Heather Wolf

Published 2023

240 pages

Cover of An Absolute Beginner's Guide to Raising Backyard Ducks Breeds, Feeding, Housing and Care, Eggs and Meat

An Absolute Beginner's Guide to Raising Backyard Ducks Breeds, Feeding, Housing and Care, Eggs and Meat

Gail Damerow

Published 2023

160 pages

Cover of You and the Bowerbird

You and the Bowerbird

Maria Gianferrari

Published 2023

48 pages

Cover of Some Do, Some Don't

Some Do, Some Don't

Dipacho

Published 2023

48 pages

Cover of Love Is in the Bear

Love Is in the Bear

Judith Henderson, Nahid Kazemi

Published 2023

32 pages

Cover of Let's All Keep Chickens!

Let's All Keep Chickens!

Dalia Monterroso

Published 2023

336 pages

Cover of Zander Stays

Zander Stays

Maureen Fergus

Published 2023

36 pages

Cover of How to Bird

How to Bird

Rasha Hamid

Published 2023

40 pages

Cover of Granny Rex

Granny Rex

Kurtis Scaletta

Published 2023

32 pages

Cover of A Snow Day for Plum!

A Snow Day for Plum!

Matt Phelan

Published 2023

128 pages

Cover of Wild Isles

Wild Isles

Alastair Fothergill

Published 2023

320 pages

Cover of Taking Flight The Evolutionary Story of Life on the Wing

Taking Flight The Evolutionary Story of Life on the Wing

Lev Parikian

Published 2023

282 pages

Cover of The Starling’s Song

The Starling’s Song

Octavie Wolters

Published 2023

32 pages

Cover of The Meaning of Geese A Thousand Miles in Search of Home

The Meaning of Geese A Thousand Miles in Search of Home

Nick Acheson

Published 2023

240 pages

Cover of A Pigeon in Paris Petite Takes Flight

A Pigeon in Paris Petite Takes Flight

Paige Howard

Published 2023

32 pages

Cover of Poems About Birds

Poems About Birds

H. J. Massingham

Published 2023

224 pages

Cover of Skyscraper Babies

Skyscraper Babies

April Pulley Sayre, Jeff Sayre

Published 2023

32 pages

Cover of Peace in New York

Peace in New York

June Kang

Published 2023

37 pages

Cover of Dave Pigeon Bookshop Mayhem! World Book Day 2023

Dave Pigeon Bookshop Mayhem! World Book Day 2023

Swapna Haddow

Published 2023

64 pages

Cover of Spread Your Wings

Spread Your Wings

Emma Dodd

Published 2023

24 pages

Cover of Chicken Boy My Life with Hens

Chicken Boy My Life with Hens

Arthur Parkinson

2023 · 2024 edition

240 pages

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