The Ornithologist's Text-book
Neville Wood, Marcia Brady Former Owner Dsi Tucker, Jonathan 1858-1929 Dwight
Published 1836
266 pages
Free birds books
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 you can read in full for free.
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Fancy pigeons
James C. Lyell
Published 1881
412 pages
The Homing Or Carrier Pigeon ...
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Published 1871
136 pages
Results of Ornithological Explorations in the Commander Islands and in Kamtschatka
Leonhard Stejneger
Published 1885
440 pages
By-ways and Bird Notes
Maurice Thompson
Published 1885
192 pages
Martin's Natural History
F. Martin
Published 1870
498 pages
Our Own Birds
William Lloyd Baily
Published 1889
284 pages
Notes on the Birds of Damara Land and the Adjacent Countries of South-west Africa
Charles John Andersson, John Henry Gurney
Published 1872
462 pages
Birds of the Northwest
Elliott Coues
Published 1874
814 pages
Handbook of Field and General Ornithology
Elliott Coues
Published 1890
358 pages
On the Classification of Water Birds
Elliott Coues
Published 1870
28 pages
The Birds of New England and Adjacent States
Edward Augustus Samuels
Published 1883
666 pages
The Ornithology of Illinois
Robert Ridgway, Stephen Alfred Forbes
Published 1895
402 pages
The International Convention for the Protection of Birds Concluded in 1902
Ottó Herman
Published 1907
268 pages
Remarks on the Ornithology of Northern Norway
Robert Collett
Published 1872
134 pages
Reptiles and Birds
Louis Figuier
Published 1892
642 pages
The Autocrat of the Nursery
L. T. Meade, T. Pym
Published 1884
208 pages
Birds of the Colorado Valley
Elliott Coues
Published 1878
836 pages
The Folk Lore and Provincial Names of British Birds
Charles Swainson
Published 1886
266 pages
Aristophanes' Birds, Frogs, and Clouds
Aristophanes
Published 1899
286 pages
The Game Birds and Wild Fowl of Sweden and Norway
Llewelyn Lloyd
Published 1867
742 pages
Report of a Geological Survey of Wisconsin, Iowa, and Minnesota
David Dale Owen
Published 1852
796 pages
The Birds of America, from Drawings Made in the United States and Their Territories
John James Audubon
1856 · 1870 edition
568 pages
Tiny houses and their builders [by E.A. Hart].
Elizabeth Anna Hart
Published 1876
212 pages