Birders (those who bird watch) and naturalists often have very esoteric (strange?) and earthy humor but it's uniquely paired with wit, which I love. In this blog post I want to tip my hat to a bird humor group that I joined called the "Facebook Bird Identification Group." This group prides itself in all the completely wrong and improbable identification makes that you could possibly every come up with about birds, in a fun and cheeky way. Recently one of the members posted a request for members to think of all of the bird-based novels they could possibly come up with, and the responses were amazing. I couldn't help but want to share these with the greater world because they are just that funny. So, without further ado here are Book Titles for the Birds, brought to you by the inspired minds of the "Facebook Bird Misidentifiers.
A Connecticut Warbler in King Bird’s Court
A Farewell to Terns
A River Shrike Runs Through It
A Room with a Smew
A Tree Sparrow Grows in Brooklyn
Ana Caracarinina
Ani
Are you there Godwit It’s Me Murlet?
Beauty and the Beaks
Blackbird Beauty
Bleak House Finch
Bonfire of the Chickadees
Breeding Bird Atlas Shrugged
Canary Row
Clockwork Orange Bishop
Dances with Plovers
Dove Story
Drake-u-la
East of Egret
Eider Robot
Even Corbirds Get the Blues
Fairwerenheit 451
Far From the Madding Crow
Fifty Shades of Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Flycatcher in the Rye
Franklin Gull Stein
Gone with the Wigeon
Gone with the Wing
Gravity’s Rainbow Lorikeet
Heart of Dark-eyed Junko
Infinite Nest
Jonathan Livingston Seagull
Lady Chatterly’s Plovers
Last Flamingo in Paris
Little House on the Prairie Chicken
Little Red Riding Hooded Merganser
Lonesome Dovekie
Looking for Mister Goodbar-tailed Godwit
Lord of the Flycatchers
Love in the Time of Cormorants
Mandarin Candidate
Mississippi Kit Runner
Moby Dickcissel
Moby Duck
My Friend Flicker
Nightjar Over Water
Of Titmice and Men
Oystercatcher in the Rye
Penguins Complaint
Pride and Pigeoness
Pudd’nhead Wilson’s Warbler
Silas Murrener
So Long and Thanks for all the Fish Crows
Something Wigeon This Way Comes
Sons and Plovers
Swan Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Taming of the Smew
The Adventures of Tom Turkey
The Autumn of the Partridge
The Brown Pelican Brief
The Call of the Wild Turkey
The Dead Zone-tailed Hawk
The Godmother Goose
The Grebes of Wrath
The Hound of the Basketweavers
The House of Green Grackles
The Hunt for Red Oxbird
The Invisible Manakin
The Kinglet and I
The Kinglet and the Nighthawks of the Round Table
The Last Pigeon Show
The Lion, the Witchity, and the Wardrobe
The Man Who Would Be Kinglet
The Old Man and the Seagull
The Old Man and the Seaside Sparrow
The Old Man and the Seedeater
The Peacock Papers
The Pelican Brief
The Picture of African Gray
The Picture of Dorian Gray Jay
The Pipit Papers
The Raven
The Scarlet Tanager Letter
The Strange Case of Charles Dexter Warbler
The Sunbittern Also Rises
The Treasure of Scrub Jay Island
The Turnstone of the Screw
Their Eyes Were Watching Godwit
Tropicbird of Cancer
Typeewee
War and Peacock
Warblers of the Worlds
Winds of Warbler
Winter Wren of the World
Wuthering Shrikes
I can only take credit for a few of these, the rest are the funny minds of local birders. Can you think of any other good Book Titles for the Birds? Inbox me at Coyoteowlwoman@yahoo.com and I'll add them!
Infinite Spider
My name is Karen and I am currently the Education Program Coordinator at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, working with students K-gray and doing outdoor science education based on Smithsonian research. I have also been a curriculum developer for the Smithsonian Science Education Center and a contract curriculum writer for the Discovery Channel. In my spare time I love to explore nature topics that I want to know more about, which has lead me to blogging here on "The Infinite Spider" (Infinitespider.com). I've designed it to be a science and nature blog for every-day people, naturalists, and outdoor educators. Currently I live in Annapolis, MD. If you have questions you can reach me at greathornedowl76@gmail.com. Let me know if you enjoy the blog or if you would like to see a particular topic covered. Thanks for reading!