A little late but if you’ve found the topic of birds interesting, do read on!
Online resources
General:
Articles and papers:
- Ethno-Ornithology: Birds and Indigenous Peoples, Culture, and Society – an epic but amazing document with over 350 pages of fascinating reading
- Birds in Legend, Fable and Folklore
- Bird Gods (pdf)
- Why are poets so fascinated with birds?
- A day for birds, birds for a lifetime
- Birds of a feather
- The language of birds, British Library
- The impact of climate change on birds, James Common
- The gift of birdsong, James Common
Offline resources
- Flights of Fancy by Peter Tate
- Discovering the Folklore of Birds and Beasts by Venetia Newall
- Birds: Myth, Lore and Legend by Marianne Taylor and Rachel Warren Chadd
- The Trumpet of the Swan by E B White
- The Genius of Birds by Jennifer Ackerman
- Bewick’s British Birds by Thomas Bewick
- The Oxford Book of Nature Writing, edited by Richard Mabey
- The New Nature Writing, Granta
- A Message from Martha: The Extinction of the Passenger Pigeon and Its Relevance Today by Mark Avery
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