Birding

We love to travel to find new birds and participate in a lot of bird counts. We also created a Guide to Birding Field Guides and host a collection of over 300 birding links from all over the globe.

Conservation

While our main focus continues to be birds, we promote other areas of conservation as well. Conserving land not only benefits wildlife, but is hugely beneficial to people as well.

Outdoors

We love all sorts of outdoor activities, especially hiking and spend a lot of time outside with dogs and horses. We are working to produce more articles on all sorts of outdoor fun!

Photography

Every week we bring you Bird Photography Weekly. We periodically talk about our adventures in digiscoping. Feel free to browse our photo lifelist.

Books

We’ve reviewed MANY books on Birdfreak.com but here are some of our favorites! Please check out the whole list of reviews.

    Must Haves!!

  1. Birder’s Conservation Handbook: 100 North American Birds at Risk [Read Our Review]
  2. Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children From Nature-Deficit Disorder
    [Read our review]

    3. Young Birders

  3. The Young Birder’s Guide to Birds of Eastern North America (Peterson Field Guides)
    [Read our review]
  4. Snowy Owls: Who Are They?
    [Read our review]

    5. Field Guides

  5. Kaufman Field Guide to Birds of North America
    [Read our review]
  6. Smithsonian Field Guide to the Birds of North America
    [Read our review]
  7. Peterson Field Guide to Birds of North America (Peterson Field Guide Series)
    [Read our review]
  8. Birds of East Asia: China, Taiwan, Korea, Japan, and Russia (Princeton Field Guides)
    [Read our review]
  9. Birds of Eastern Africa: Updated Edition (Princeton Illustrated Checklists)
    [Read our review]
  10. Birds of Southern Africa (Princeton Illustrated Checklists)
    [Read our review]
  11. Hummingbirds of North America: Attracting, Feeding, and Photographing
    [Read our review]

    12. State/Regional Books

  12. The Arizona Breeding Bird Atlas
    [Read our review]
  13. Birding Illinois
    [Read our review]
  14. Atlas Of The Breeding Birds Of Nevada
    [Read our review]
  15. Watchable Birds of the Black Hills, Badlands And Northern Great Plains (Watchable Birds)
    [Read our review]
  16. Where the Birds are in Northeast Spain
    [Read our review]

    17. Science and Reference

  17. How and Why Species Multiply: The Radiation of Darwin’s Finches (Princeton Series in Evolutionary Biology)
    [Read our review]
  18. The Princeton Encyclopedia of Birds
    [Read our review]
  19. Rare Birds Yearbook 2009
    [Read our review]
  20. Peterson Reference Guides: Gulls of the Americas (The Peterson Reference Guide Series)
    [Read our review]
  21. A Photographic Guide to North American Raptors
    [Read our review]

    22. Art, Photography, Essays

  22. Lars Jonsson’s Birds: Paintings from a Near Horizon
    [Read our review]
  23. Kingbird Highway: The Biggest Year in the Life of an Extreme Birder
    [Read our review]
  24. Pete Dunne on Bird Watching : The How-to, Where-to, and When-to of Birding
    [Read our review]
  25. Golden Wings, and Other Stories About Birders and Birding
  26. The Wind Masters: The Lives of North American Birds of Prey
  27. Pete Dunne’s Essential Field Guide Companion: A Comprehensive Resource for Identifying North American Birds
  28. Good Birders Don’t Wear White: 50 Tips From North America’s Top Birders
    [Read our review]
  29. Tales of a Low-Rent Birder
  30. More Tales of a Low-Rent Birder
  31. Small-headed Flycatcher. Seen Yesterday. He Didn’t Leave His Name.: and other stories
  32. The Feather Quest: A North American Birder’s Year
  33. Letters From Eden: A Year at Home, in the Woods
  34. Birdwatcher: The Life of Roger Tory Peterson
    [Read our review]
  35. Roger Tory Peterson: A Biography (Mildred Wyatt-Wold Series in Ornithology)
    [Read our review]
  36. Corvus: A Life with Birds
    [Read our review]
  37. Birds in Flight: The Art and Science of How Birds Fly
    [Read our review]
  38. Shorebirds: Beautiful Beachcombers
    [Read our review]