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Looking for a gift for someone who loves wild birds?
This lens gives you gift ideas for all kinds of birders -- beginning, intermediate and advanced -- even The Birder Who Has Everything.
Books, feeders, gadgets and more!
Gifts are organized by skill level or price range.
The Curious Wren - Your Birding Guide
Let the Curious Wren be your guide to birding.She has a whole series of lenses about birding, bird feeders, field guides, bird books, gifts and equipment.
Some lenses are "How To" lenses.
One part of her series is Birding USA -- state-by-state guides to birding -- Florida, California and more!
Go to the Curious Wren hub for links to all her lenses.
Coolest New Thing!
iflyer-Birdsong Scanning Wand
About $100. Simply press a button, scan a barcode, and iFlyer plays a high-quality digital recording of a Bird's song. The scancode labels can be added to any of your favorite field guides and bird books. iFlyer puts 216 bird and frog songs at your fingertips and is portable and perfect for bird walks.
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Amazon Price: $99.99 (as of 10/06/2008)
iFlyer Scan Labels
$7.95. Extra set of bar code sticker labels for use with the Scanning Wand (above). 206 bird songs.
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Cool New Stuff
Bird Songs: 250 North American Birds in Song
$27. Book has built-in audio player - hear the song as you study the bird! 250 species in this book, along with their songs.
Lavish full-color illustrations accompany each account, while a sleek, built-in digital audio player holds songs and calls.
Amazon Price: $29.70 (as of 10/06/2008)
Identiflyer Songcard Western Yardbirds
$9.95. For birds west of the Rocky Mtns.
Amazon Price: $9.49 (as of 10/06/2008)
Identiflyer Additional SongCard-Birds of the SeaShore
$9.95. Shorebirds only.
Amazon Price: $9.49 (as of 10/06/2008)
Looking for Gifts for KIDS?
- Go to my lens on Kids and Birding
- Click above to go to my lens called "Introduce Your Kids to Birding" for great gifts for KIDS.
For Beginning Birders
Birds (Fandex Family Field Guides)
50 die-cut cards to get started on bird identification.
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Amazon Price: $9.95 (as of 10/06/2008)
Peterson Field Guide to Feeder Birds of Eastern North America
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Amazon Price: $9.95 (as of 10/06/2008)
Stokes Beginner's Guide to Birds : Western Region
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Amazon Price: $9.99 (as of 10/06/2008)
Audubon 365 Birds Page-A-Day Calendar 2007
Learn one new bird per day!
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For Advanced Birders
- Bird Songs for the iPod - $69
- It's called BirdJam (formerly BirdPod). Take bird songs on your iPod into the field -- where you really need them!
You can buy a pre-loaded iPod here, or just buy the software to convert CDs to iTunes format. That's the catch -- you must first purchase the Stokes brand CDs (available on Amazon - see link in section above).
Conversion software costs $69 for either Eastern or Western birds. $118 for all.
For the High-Tech Birder (who has everything)
Go paperless into the field with this PDA loaded with tons of information -- pictures, songs and data.From National Geographic. You can purchase it already loaded on a Palm PDA ($449), or you can buy just the software ($199).
Go to this website for information and demo.
Books for Adults
Identify Yourself: The 50 Most Common Birding Identification Challenges
Amazon Price: $14.96 (as of 10/06/2008)
List Price: $19.95
Pete Dunne's Essential Field Guide Companion: A Comprehensive Resource for Identifying North American Birds
Amazon Price: $19.77 (as of 10/06/2008)
List Price: $29.95
Pete Dunne on Bird Watching: The How-to, Where-to, and When-to of Birding
Amazon Price: $9.60 (as of 10/06/2008)
List Price: $12.00
The Bedside Book of Birds: An Avian Miscellany
Amazon Price: $19.77 (as of 10/06/2008)
List Price: $29.95
All Things Reconsidered: My Birding Adventures
Amazon Price: $10.17 (as of 10/06/2008)
List Price: $14.95
Videos / DVDs
The Life of Birds
The acclaimed 10-part PBS series. Attenborough takes us around the world to see amazing bird behavior.
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Amazon Price: $38.99 (as of 10/06/2008)
Winged Migration
A documentary with spectacular footage of birds in flight -- close up! More musical background than narration. Gorgeous.
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Amazon Price: $11.49 (as of 10/06/2008)
March of the Penguins (Widescreen Edition)
Emperor penguins in Antarctica trek miles and miles to their breeding ground, and endure the harshest conditions. See how chicks are hatched and reared.
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Amazon Price: $14.99 (as of 10/06/2008)
Neat Stuff under $25
Swiss Gear Schloss Double Bottle Hydration Fanny Pack
Great for birdwatching -- carry books, water, food. Comes w/bottles.
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Audubon 100 Harness Strap
$19.99 from Amazon.
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Amazon Price: $20.35 (as of 10/06/2008)
Pet Media Birchwood-and-Metal Original Audubon Bird Call
$7.49 from Amazon. Call in the wild birds!
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Clamp On Birdbath
$14.99 from Amazon. Attaches to deck.
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Amazon Price: $19.50 (as of 10/06/2008)
Adorama Lenspen - Lens cleaning tool
$9.95. The best tool for cleaning binoculars.
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Droll Yankees, Inc Birdfeeder Brush, 24 Inch
$13.25. Makes cleaning feeders easier. 24 inches long.
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Amazon Price: $22.88 (as of 10/06/2008)
Great New Water Station for Birds
BIRD BATH POLY 100 OZ
$13.49. Holds 100 oz. and has 4 troughs for drinking. Hang from a branch or just set on a surface. A lot easier to keep clean than a bird bath, since it's less likely that birds will poop in here.
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Amazon Price: $16.49 (as of 10/06/2008)
Bird Song CDs
More Birding by Ear Eastern and Central North America: A Guide to Bird-song Identification (Peterson Field Guides (R) Audios)
Eastern Region -- east of Mississippi River.
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Amazon Price: $19.80 (as of 10/06/2008)
Stokes Field Guide to Bird Songs: Western Region (Stokes Field Guide to Bird Songs)
Western Region - west of Mississippi River.
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Amazon Price: $23.09 (as of 10/06/2008)
Music of the Birds: A Celebration of Bird Song
Book and CD combo by Lang Elliott, one of the leading nature photographers and sound recordists.
He examines bird song from 2 perspectives - scientific and aesthetic. Provides scientific information about bird vocalizations, but also discusses the beauty of bird song and its influence on poets.
Fantastic photos in the book. CD has 50 bird songs. Complex songs are explained - and even slowed down so that we can hear the intricacy involved.
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Amazon Price: $16.50 (as of 10/06/2008)
The Singing Life of Birds: The Art and Science of Listening to Birdsong
Comes with a CD.
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Amazon Price: $18.48 (as of 10/06/2008)
Gifts $20 to $50
First Nature Nature's Niche Chickadee Cottage
$29.57. Cute birdhouse, made for a chickadee.
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Winged Aquatics Natures' Spring Bird Bath With Dripper
$43.54. A bird bath with dripper that you place on the ground in your garden.
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Amazon Price: $55.99 (as of 10/06/2008)
Winged Aquatics Dripper & Rock Base
$47.77. Dripping water is very attractive to birds because the ripples created in a bird bath can be seen by birds from a great distance. This dripper is made of copper mounted in a natural rock base.
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Amazon Price: $44.43 (as of 10/06/2008)
Cool Gifts Under $20
Pink Flamingo Machine Embroidered Wildlife Bucket Hat Bird Cap
$19.95. Cotton hat with embroidered flamingos. One size fits all.
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More Great Gifts
Birdwatching Hat Nature Bucket Hat
$17.99. Has bulls-eye on top. Cute (and practical) hat for birdwatching!
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Amazon Price: $17.99 (as of 10/06/2008)
Ivory-billed Woodpecker Hat
$17.99. Nice "logo" of the ivory-billed. Cotton twill hat. Comes in a shirt too, also on Amazon.
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Here Birdy T-Shirt - Large
$17.99. Shows a pair of binocs and "Here Birdy, Birdy, Birdy." A hat with similar logo is also available on Amazon.
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Feed The Birds T-Shirt - X-Large
$17.99. "Feed the Birds" shirt. Shows a feeder surrounded by birds.
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Amazon Price: $17.99 (as of 10/06/2008)
Shorebirds Nature T-Shirt - Medium
$17.99. Whimsical shirt showing a crowd of various shorebirds having fun at the beach.
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Looking for More Shirts & Hats?
- Cool Shirts and Hats for Birders
- Click on the link above to check out my selection of T-shirts and hats for bird lovers.
For the Birder Who Has Everything
- Song Sleuth $299.95
- This is a VERY cool invention! Record and de-code any song you hear in the field with this hi-tech machine.
"Just point Song Sleuth in the direction of a birdsong. In seconds, the software analyzes, identifies and rank-orders the prime suspects and displays the results."
Top-of-the-Line Feeders
Droll Yankees YCPW180 Whipper Bird Feeder, Dark Blue
Squirrel-proof! Perches are right for cardinals. LIfetime guarantee.
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Amazon Price: $83.01 (as of 10/06/2008)
Droll Yankees YF Flipper Bird Feeder
Battery-powered perch flings off squirrels. Rechargeable battery. I own this feeder and the charge lasts for months. Definitely squirrel-proof!
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Amazon Price: $89.99 (as of 10/06/2008)
Duncraft 1744 Champion Squirrel Blocker Platform Feeder
Metal platform feeder. Has plastic screen over seeds that prevents squirrels from getting to food. I own this feeder and I can attest that it's squirrel-proof. Hanging or pole-mountable.
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Amazon Price: $59.95 (as of 10/06/2008)
Books about Birding - written by Fanatic Birders!
Kingbird Highway: The Story of a Natural Obsession That Got a Little Out of Hand
Ornithologist Kenn Kaufman's humorous account of the year he spent birding (and hitch-hiking) across America at age 19.
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Tales of a Low-Rent Birder
Dunne's collection of 19 essays and sketches about his adventures chasing birds.
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Amazon Price: $14.95 (as of 10/06/2008)
The Big Year: A Tale of Man, Nature, and Fowl Obsession
A journalist follows expert birders as they compete to see the most species in one single year. Very comical stories of mad dashes all over the US just to see a bird.
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Amazon Price: $11.20 (as of 10/06/2008)
To See Every Bird on Earth: A Father, a Son, and a Lifetime Obsession
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Gardening Books for Bird Lovers
Attracting Birds to Your Backyard: 536 Ways To Turn Your Yard and Garden Into a Haven For Your Favorite Birds (A Rodale Organic Gardening Book)
This book gets great reviews. It's arranged as an A-Z guide (with illustrations) about what to plant to bring birds to your yard. Loaded with practical info about feeding birds, gardening, and building bird houses.
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Amazon Price: $29.95 (as of 10/06/2008)
Bird-by-Bird Gardening: The Ultimate Guide to Bringing in Your Favorite Birds-Year after Year
Shows you how to lure their preferred species with bird-friendly features such as water, shrub cover, nesting plants, and feeders includes 19 garden designs for attracting specific bird families. Provides water projects and feeder recipes for bird families.
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Amazon Price: $19.77 (as of 10/06/2008)
Natural Gardening for Birds: Simple Ways to Create a Bird Haven (Rodale Organic Gardening Book)
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Birding Journals Make a Great Gift
The Birder's Journal
Has black and white sketches of over 500 American species. Use colored pencils to record exactly what you saw. Each bird gets half a page.
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Bird Watcher's Journal
$24.99. Refills available too (at Amazon). Spiral-bound pages encased in a durable water-resistant cover that zips closed. Holds pen too. Look like a real ornithologist!
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Amazon Price: $26.99 (as of 10/06/2008)
Audubon Life-List Journal
A keepsake book to be treasured by both amateur and expert, this Journal provides a special place for birders to record their memories. Entries for more than 700 North American species are accounted for in taxonomic order, and each entry allows ample space to note the date, location, and details of a sighting. Intended for use after excursions in the field, the pages invite comments, sketches, scraps.
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National Geographic Birder's Journal, 2d Edition (National Geographic)
A fully illustrated life list, the journal offers generous space for recording dates and locations of bird sightings.
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Amazon Price: $11.53 (as of 10/06/2008)
Other Interesting Books
A Hummingbird in My House: The Story of Squeak
One of Heidcamp's several books about her adoption of a hummer. She hosts the hummer in her house over the winter, and gets to know the bird intimately.
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Amazon Price: $12.21 (as of 10/06/2008)
A Parrot Without a Name: The Search for the Last Unknown Birds on Earth
Scientists go to remote Peru to search for an undiscovered species of parrot. Fascinating.
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Birdsong: A Natural History
Answering the question - Why do birds sing?
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Amazon Price: $24.00 (as of 10/06/2008)
