Start with high-confidence animal behavior books, then narrow by subgenre or adjacent topics.
First Steps
Jeremy DeSilva
The Hidden World of the Fox
Adele Brand
What It's Like to Be a Bird
David Allen Sibley
The Intimate Animal
Justin R. Garcia PhD PhD, Matt Godfrey
What an Owl Knows
Jennifer Ackerman
The Bird Way
Almost Human
Lee Berger, John Hawks
The Sound of Feathers
Kathryn Gillespie
Wolves, Coyotes & Foxes
Stan Tekiela
Eavesdropping on Animals
George Bumann, Jon Young
