Bird Books on The Point
Today was the monthly WCAI book show with Mindy Todd on The Point. We hope you got to hear Dennis Minsky and Jill Erickson talk about bird books. We had such big piles of bird books, we think we’ll be doing another bird book show in the fall! Sorry we were pre-recorded today, so you couldn’t call in with your favorites, but if you have a favorite bird book, please add a comment to our list! Miss the show? You can listen here!
Dennis’s Picks
“Ode to a Nightingale” by John Keats
“The Kookaburas” and “White Owl Flies Into and Out of the Field” from House of Light by Mary Oliver
Mind of the Raven by Bernd Heinrich
The Genius of Birds by Jennifer Ackerman
Birdscapes: birds in our imagination and experience by Jeremy Mynott
Wesley the Owl: the remarkable love story of an owl and his girl by Stacey O’Brien
The Peregrine by J. A. Baker
The Running Sky by Tim Dee
Jill’s Picks
The Eponym Dictionary of Birds by Bo Beolens, Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson
Bright Wings: an illustrated anthology of poems about birds edited by Billy Collins with paintings by David Allen Sibley (Includes Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird by Wallace Stevens
The Birdman’s Wife by Melissa Ashley. Nominated for the Australian Book Industry Award for Fiction.
John Gould’s Birds, with a biographical introduction by Maureen Lambourne
A Convergence of Birds, edited & introduced by Joanthan Safran Foer
Mr. Cornell’s Dream Boxes by Jeanette Winter
Birds Art Life: a year of observation by Kyo Maclear
A Year of Falmouth Birds by Craig Gibson, photographer