Last Updated: July 31, 2025
Alix Morris spends a year with these magnetic creatures and brings them to life on the page, season by season, as she learns about their intelligence, their relationships with each other, their ecosystems, and the changing climate.
Turning to Birds: The Power and Beauty of Noticing
by Lili Taylor
Through a series of beautifully crafted essays, Taylor shares her intimate encounters with the birds that have captured her heart and imagination. This book is part-memoir, part-love letter to the beauty and resilience of the natural world–a reminder of the profound connections that exist between all living things.
The Weird and Wonderful World of Bats provides a fresh introduction to these curious flying mammals, explaining how they experience the world through unique senses, where and how they fly, the origins of their complex relationships with humans, and how we can learn from them–not only to coexist, but potentially grow healthier and wiser together.
In The Owl Handbook, lifelong birding enthusiast John Shewey leads us through an exploration of owls’ cultural impact as seen in folklore and mythology, provides in-depth investigations of 19 owls of North America and a survey of 200 owls across the globe, and gives advice on how to respectfully observe and protect these enigmatic birds, brought to life by hundreds of full-color photographs.
Slither: How Nature’s Most Maligned Creatures Illuminate Our World
by Stephen S. Hall
In SLITHER, science writer Stephen S. Hall presents a naturalistic, cultural, ecological, and scientific meditation on these loathed yet magnetic creatures. In each chapter, he explores a biological aspect of The Snake, such as their cold blooded metabolism and venomous nature, alongside their mythology, artistic depictions, and cultural veneration.