You can borrow books from the SUNY Adirondack Library. If you're an area resident, you may obtain a community borrower card at the library's Library Services Desk. Just bring a photo ID with your local address.
What It's Like to Be a Bird by 
Sibley's Birding Basics by 
National Geographic birding essentials: all the tools, techniques, and tips you need to begin and become a better birder by 
Bird Feathers by 
The warbler guide by 
Kaufman field guide to advanced birding: understanding what you see and hear by 
John James Audubon by 
The Song of the Dodo by 
The American Bird Conservancy guide to bird conservation by 
Life list : a woman’s quest for the world’s most amazing birds by 
The nesting Season: Cuckoos, Cuckolds, and the Invention of Monogamy by 
Egg & nest by 
The private lives of birds: a scientist reveals the intricacies of avian social life by 
Soaring with Fidel by Students, faculty and staff of SUNY Adirondack can access the 2016 e-book edition of this important textbook, linked below.
The print version of the 2004 edition is available to borrow:
Handbook of Bird Biology by 
Vulture by 
Living Bird by 
The Crossley ID guide. Raptors by 
Owls by 
The Bluebird Book: The Complete Guide to Attracting Bluebirds (Stokes Backyard Nature Books) by 
The bluebird effect: uncommon bonds with common birds by 
An eternity of eagles: the human history of the most fascinating bird in the world by 
Bird sense : what it’s like to be a bird by 
Winter World by 
Mind of the Raven by
By award-winning naturalist.
The bird : a natural history of who birds are, where they came from, and how they live by 
Crow Planet by These are a few of the many books on birds at the SUNY Adirondack Library. If you live in the Warren, Washington or Saratoga County area, you may visit the library to obtain a community borrower card. Circulating books may be borrowed for four weeks. Stop by the library to use the reference books.
Guides to Local Birds:
These field guides could be handy to identify birds in your backyard:
Birds of New York State (by Bob Budlinger)
Circulating QL 684.N7 B82 2005
The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Eastern North America (by David Sibley)
Circulating QL 681 .S564 2003
A Field Guide to the Birds: Eastern and Central North America
Circulating QL674 .P48 1980
These books above are also available at local bookstores. You may also want to consider Eastern Birds: A Guide to Field Identification by James Coe (2001), part of the Golden Guides series from St. Martin's Press, which is not available at the SUNY Adirondack Library.
New York Breeding Birds:
New York State Breeding Bird Atlas
From NYS Department of Environmental Conservation. Offers species lists and distribution maps from the first atlas (1980-1985) and second atlas projects (2000-2005).)
The Second Atlas of Breeding Birds in New York State
Ref. QL 684.N7 A84 2008
The Atlas of Breeding Birds in New York State
Reference QL684.N7 A84 1988
Bull's Birds of New York State
Reference QL 684.N7 B833 1998
More Books:
A Guide to Bird Behavior (Stokes Guide)
Circulating QL 698.3 .S75 1985
Birds: A Visual Guide
Circulating QL 674 .B84 2006
A Guide to the Nests, Eggs, and Nestlings of North American Birds
Circulating QL675 .B16 1997
Adirondack Birding: 60 Great Places to Find Birds by John M. C. Peterson
Circulating Collection QL 684.N7 P47 2008
Ospreys: The revival of a global raptor by 
The End of the End of the Earth by 
Journey with the loon by 
American Birding Association Field Guide to Birds of New York by 
H Is for Hawk by 
The World of Birds by 
The thing with feathers : the surprising lives of birds, and what they reveal about being human by 
Birds and people by 
Facing extinction: the world’s rarest birds and the race to save them by 
The Sibley guide to birds by 
The Crossley ID guide by 
The atlas of birds : diversity, behavior, and conservation by 
Why birds sing: a journey through the mystery of bird song by 
Possums to porcupines : the wild life of an Adirondack rehabilitator by