One Wild Bird at a Time: Portraits of Individual Lives by Bernd Heinrich is a collection of 17 unrelated chapters, each focusing on a particular bird – not a certain species as much as specific, individual birds. Heinrich describes many cool things about the birds that he encountered around his New England homes, birds such as Barred Owl, Great Crested Flycatcher, and Blue Jay. The most important things you will get out of this book are the reminder that birds are individuals and the realization that there is still much more to discover, even about our most common birds — and that anyone can do so.
