Birds
Evolution, History, and Background
Birkhead, Tim, Jo Wimpenny, and Robert D. Montgomerie. Ten Thousand Birds: Ornithology Since Darwin. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2014.
Culture and Sensing, Subjectivity
Birkhead, Tim. Bird Sense: What It’s Like to Be a Bird. New York: Bloomsbury, 2013.
Cate, Carel ten, and Sue Healy, eds. Avian Cognition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017.
Martin, Graham. The Sensory Ecology of Birds. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017.
Scheiber, Isabella B. R., ed. The Social Life of Greylag Geese: Patterns, Mechanisms and Evolutionary Function in an Avian Model System. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Aplin, Lucy M. “Culture and Cultural Evolution in Birds: A Review of the Evidence.” Animal Behaviour, no. 47 (2019): 179–87. https://doi.org/10/gfsp4p.
Impact of helpful humans on birds, at scale:
Jones, Darryl N. The Birds at My Table: Why We Feed Wild Birds and Why It Matters. Sydney: NewSouth, 2018.
An interesting discussion of human reactions to bird (owls):
Van Dyke, Carolynn. “Touched by an Owl? An Essay in Vernacular Ethology.” Postmedieval: A Journal of Medieval Cultural Studies 7, no. 2 (2016): 304–27. https://doi.org/10/gkgsh8.
An example of PhD about birds and humans:
Clover, Catherine I. “Tell Me Something: Unlearning Common Noisy Wild Urban Birds Through Listening, Voice and Language.” PhD Thesis, RMIT, 2015.
Crows
Marzluff, John M., and Tony Angell. Gifts of the Crow: How Perception, Emotion, and Thought Allow Smart Birds to Behave Like Humans. Free Press, 2014.