HI:
So far I have received over 200 titles suggestions for my list of top 100
bird books. Below is a list of the books with the highest vote counts:

8 votes:
Handbook to the Birds of the World
Birds of Europe (Collins guide)

7 votes:
Sibley North American Birds guide

6 votes:
Wild America Peterson
living on the Wind Weidensaul

5 votes:
Birds of America John James Audubon

4 votes:
Shorebirds of the Pacific Northwest Paulson
Field Guide to the Birds Peterson
Little Black bird book Oddie
Life Histories of North American Birds Bent

3 votes:
Beak of the Finch Weiner
Seabirds Harrison
Portraits of a Wilderness Mountfort
MacMillian field guide Harris
Birds of the Pacific States Hoffmann
Identification guide to North American Birds Pyle

2 votes:
Herring Gull's World Tinbergen
Lives of North American Birds Kaufman
Audubon Society Encyclopedia North American Birds Terres
Birder's handbook Ehrlich
Seabirds Fisher
Birds britain Europe peterson
Flight ID European Raptors Porter
Handbook British birds Witherby
Handbook Birds Western Palearctic Cramp
Shell Bird Book Fisher
Atlas breeding bird Britain ireland Sharrock
Birds of Europe Jonsson
Shorebirds Hayman et al.
Birds of Siberia Sebohm
English Folk Names Swann
Birds Heligoland diary Gathe
Gulls Grant
The Island Lockley
Kingbird highway Kaufman
Spix Macaw Juniper
Birders: tale of the tribe Cocker
Red-tails in love Winn
Owl babies Waddell
Audubon to Xantus Mearns
Birds Mexico and Northern Central America Howell
Ridgely Birds of Ecuador
Birds of America Pearson
Advanced Birding Kaufman
Birds Kenya Northern Tanzania Zimmerman
Birds of Panama Wetmore
Raptors Western/eastern Wheeler
Birds of Alberta Salt
Ageing European Passerines Jenni
Last of the Curlews Bosworth
Guardian spirit east bank author?
Golden guide (1966)
Dictionary of American Bird names Choate
Glutz Handbook Birds Middle Europe (in German)
Palearctic Africa migration systems Moreau

and the rest had just one vote each. Maybe my list should be the top 50
bird books?
--
Ian Paulsen
Bainbridge Island, WA, USA
A.K.A.: "Birdbooker"
"Rallidae all the way!"