Formats and Editions
1. Wood Dove - Performed by Nick Cave & Warren Ellis
2. Archangel - Performed by Beck
3. Seeds - Performed by Alaska Reid and A. G. Cook
4. The Morning - Written by W.S. Merwin. Read by Danielle Haim
5. Fly On - Performed by Karen Elson
6. Fly Away (With the Songs) - Performed by Michael Rother & Vittoria Maccabruni
7. On the Wing - Performed by Jim James
8. Honey, in the Wild - Performed by Josh Kaufman feat. Annie Nero
9. Unbroken Wing - Performed by Mike Campbell
10. Migration of Birds - Written by Gary Snyder. Read by Wally Wolodarsky
11. May 18th 1929 Lost - Performed by Alex Somers
1. Bird Calling - Performed by Mark Ronson feat. Damon Albarn & Wale
2. One for Sorrow - Performed by UNKLE
3. Once Let Free - Performed by Emily Cross
4. Kyoto: March - Written by Gary Snyder. Read by Jelani Cobb
5. Sanctuary - Performed by Beach House
6. Welcome Morning - Written by Anne Sexton. Read by Natalie Bergman
7. Mine Is Not Your Beauty - Performed by Uwade
8. Birds for Phil - Performed by Spring Summer
9. Una Melodía - Performed by El Búho feat. Emilie Basez
10. Bone’s Lament - Performed by Darius Christian & Reginald Chapman
11. Nouns of Assemblage - Performed by Blake Mills
12. Elsewhere Bird - Performed by Richard Reed Parry
13. The Garden - Written by Mark Strand. Read by Tennessee Thomas
1. Counting Birds - Written by Jim Harrison. Read by Sean Penn
2. Kachofugetsu - Performed by Kaoru Watanabe
3. St. Francis and the Birds - Performed by Terry Riley
4. Birdsong - Performed by Tawiah
5. Crow Dialectic - Performed by Elliot Bergman
6. A Grandchild's Song for Robins in Year Two of Pandemic - Performed by Ray Young Bear
7. When the Birds Were Banished from the Palace - Written by Saoirse Stice. Read by Jack Kornfield
8. Birds Return - Performed by Hatis Noit
9. Salt Point - Performed by Tyondai Braxton
10. Forty Songs - Performed by Lee Ranaldo. Lyrics by Michael McClure
11. Wounded Bird - Performed by Kurt Vile
1. Cuckoo Song - Performed by Jarvis Cocker
2. Cuckoo Bird - Performed by Haden Triplets
3. Hummingbird - Written by Raymond Carver. Read by Donald Ray Pollock
4. Hum Hum Hum - Performed by Karen O
5. Whistling in the Dark - Performed by Molly Lewis
6. Sparrow - Written by Norman MacCaig. Read by Tilda Swinton
7. Oreals - Performed by Rudresh Mahanthappa
8. Fly Catcher - Performed by James McAlister
9. State Bird - Written by Ada Limón. Read by Mickey Sumner
10. The Calling - Performed by Nick Rhodes & Wendy Bevan
11. Bluebirds (2021 Acoustic Version) - Performed by Adam Green
12. Why Does the Girl Bird Sing - Performed by Suzzy Roche
1. Birdsong for Randy - Performed by Dan Deacon
2. When the Sun Explodes - Performed by Very Nice Person
3. Weird Bird - Written by Shel Silverstein. Read by Bobby Cannavale
4. And Your Bird Can Sing / The Birds Will Be Singing - Performed by Elvis Costello
5. Lucifer Hummingbird - Performed by The Flaming Lips
6. Who (Don't Look Back) - Performed by Andrew Wyatt
7. California Towhee - Written and read by Jonathan Franzen
8. Open Window - Performed by Michael Uzowuru
9. tori no uta - Performed by Aska Matsumiya
10. Two Arms - Performed by Le Ren
11. Sparrow, Sparrow, What Did You Say? - Written by Ada Limón. Read by Molly Rosen
12. Your Birthday at the Huntington - Performed by Mary Lattimore
13. Are We - Written and read by Jorie Graham
1. The Hawk & the Crow - Performed by Olivia Chaney
2. Bell Minor - Performed by Jeff Tweedy
3. Broom - Written by Jim Harrison. Read by Matthew McConaughey
4. Godswits - Performed by Mark Mulcahy
5. Red Tailed Hawk - Performed by Inara George and Van Dyke Parks
6. Great Blue Heron - Performed by Calexico
7. Trying To Get Out - Performed by Siddhartha Khosla
8. Hope Is a Feather - Performed by Ganavya
9. Birdsong - Performed by Ramesh & Jason Chronis
10. Black Cherries - Written by W.S. Merwin. Read by Alice Waters
11. Stations Parallel - Performed by Sam Prekop
12. Kwitaro Backbone - Performed by Shearwater
1. Wild Geese - Written by Mary Oliver. Read by Florence Welch
2. Overview - Performed by CUP (Yuka C. Honda & Nels Cline)
3. The Gospel of Oke - Performed by Ebe Oke
4. One Eye Open - Performed by Douglas Dare feat. EERA
5. Theme for Flight - Performed by Cecile Believe
6. Hyper Happy - Performed by Eleanor Friedberger
7. Good Bones - Written by Maggie Smith. Read by Natasha Lyonne
8. V Formation - Performed by Buzzy Lee
9. The Last Love Poem I Will Ever Write - Written by Gregory Orr. Read by Ann Beattie
10. TINSELTOWN - Performed by Girlpool
11. If I Were a Kookaburra - Performed by Stephin Merritt
12. Ostrich Walk - Performed by Vince Giordano and the Nighthawks
13. The Hidden Singer - Written by Wendell Berry. Read by Bob Balaban
14. Birds and Piano - Performed by Michael Penn
1. A Dark Thing inside the Day - Written by Linda Gregg. Read by Robert Pattinson
2. Tomorrow - Performed by Hania Rani
3. In the Gale - Performed by Yo-Yo Ma. Composed by Anna Clyne
4. Winter’s Blessing - Written by John Kelly. Read by Brady Corbet
5. The Maddening Hour, or Ode to Owl - Performed by Isabella Summers
6. Evening Chorus (Live in the Bluebell Woods) - Performed by Cosmo Sheldrake
7. LSD - Written by Alex Dimitrov. Read by Jeff Goldblum
8. Strong but Fail - Performed by Roddy Bottum
9. Love High Noon - Performed by Claude Fontaine
10. Good To See - Performed by Seu Jorge & Flor
11. Wefoch (Birds) - Performed by Dexter Story
12. The Sparrow - Written by William Carlos Williams. Read by Tim Blake Nelson
1. Turiya (For the Birds remix) - Performed by Alice Coltrane
2. The Bird - Written and read by David Cale
3. Of Mere Being - Performed by Thomas Bartlett
4. Hanover Birds - Performed by Poppy Ackroyd
5. The Day Is Done - Written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Read by Chelsie Diane
6. Hymn for Four Birds - Performed by Paul Cantelon
7. Dawn Chorus - Performed by SQÜRL
8. Sonic Woodland: Dawn Chorus (excerpt) - Performed by Hidden Orchestra feat. Tim Southorn
9. Wild Swans - Written by Edna St. Vincent Millay. Read by Lorrie Moore
10. Birdies for RP - Performed by Emile Haynie
11. To the New Year - Written by W.S. Merwin. Read by Regina King
1. The Conditional - Written by Ada Limón. Read by Wendell Pierce
2. Strictly for the Birds - Performed by Hawley & LOZAC'H
3. The Little Bird - Performed by Natalie Bergman
4. Pinions of a Dove - Performed by Rayna Gellert
5. Little Birdie - Performed by Loudon Wainwright III
6. Black Cherries - Written by W.S. Merwin. Read by Greta Gerwig
7. my dove, to sleep - Performed by Vanbur
8. Carolina Turtledove - Performed by Joachim Cooder
9. The Sandhill Cranes of Nebraska - Written by Billy Collins. Read by Conor Oberst
10. Thornbird - Performed by Daniel Lanois
11. Ka - Performed by Devendra Banhart
12. Highway Psithurism - Performed by Meg Baird
13. Far Rockaway - Performed by Stuart Bogie
14. Looking for Mushrooms at Sunrise - Written by W.S. Merwin. Read by Antonio Campos
1. Seven in the Woods - Written by Jim Harrison. Read by Jason Schwartzman
2. 136 Syllables at Rocky Mountain Dharma Center - Written by Allen Ginsberg. Read by Larry Ratso Sloman
3. Perth to Melbourne - Performed by Stella Donnelly
4. Flight to the Sun - Performed by Koa Kalish
5. Skylark - Performed by Wyldest
6. They Ask Me - Written and read by Jorie Graham
7. For Octavia Butler - Performed by Atlas Sound & L’Rain
8. Pasadena Parrots - Performed by Adrock
9. Morning Maggie - Performed by Carla dal Forno
10. Noah's Raven - Written by W.S. Merwin. Read by John Burnham Schwartz
11. Diamond Dove - Performed by Gyða Valtýsdóttir
12. Kookaburra Boogie - Performed by Thurston Moore & Wobbly
13. Nightbird - Performed by Marcelo Zarvos
14. In May - Written by Adam Zagajewski. Read by Sandor Katz
15. For the Birds - Performed by Makaya McCraven
1. Before the World - Performed by Laurie Anderson
2. Mr. Sparrow - Performed by John Cale
3. Dawn Revisited - Written and read by Rita Dove
4. Altamira Oriole - Performed by Woodkid
5. Baepholus - Performed by Ben Lukas Boysen
6. How Many Nights - Written by Galway Kinnell. Read by Michelle Williams
7. Goldfinch Yodel - Performed by Arthur Jeffes
8. Birds - Performed by Koreless
9. Feather - Performed by Masayoshi Fujita
10. Loon Song - Performed by Eluvium
11. Secret Life - Written by Li-Young Lee. Read by Nana Mensah
12. Arada - Performed by Meara O'Reilly
1. Not-Yet - Written by Jane Hirshfield. Read by Victoria Legrand
2. Monteverde September 08 - Performed by The Album Leaf
3. Birdsong Call - Performed by Nick Zinner
4. Rare Birds - Performed by Andrew Bird
5. Bobcats, Beetles, Owls - Written by Jane Hirshfield. Read by Jane Alexander
6. Diary - Performed by Juliette Commagere
7. Cuckoo - Performed by Sam Amidon
8. Sorrow Is Not My Name - Written by Ross Gay. Read by Suzan-Lori Parks
9. County Route 41 - Performed by Cassandra Jenkins
10. Birdsong - Performed by Steve Gunn
1. Bye Bye Birdy - Performed by Mark Mothersbaugh
2. The Sparrows of Butyrka - Written by Irena Ratushinskaya. Read by George Saunders
3. Alula - Performed by GEORGIA
4. Mourning Dove in Buoyancy - Performed by Haley Fohr feat. Rob Frye
5. The Ayaymama Bird - Performed by Elvis Perkins
6. Boy With a Headset - Written and read by Edward Hirsch
7. Wild Birds in an Imagined Canoga Park With Lakes and Trees in Place of Streets and Buildings - Performed by Carlos Niño
8. Intone - Performed by Midori Hirano
9. In Wiry Winter - Written by James Schuyler. Read by Graydon Carter
10. Avi Sinistra - Performed by ROB
11. Central Park - Performed by Doug Wieselman
12. Birdy - Performed by Daniel Blumberg & Billy Steiger
13. BIRDSLAND - Performed by Arturo O'Farrill
14. To This May - Written by W.S. Merwin. Read by Cazzie David
1. Aure, Deh, Per Piertà - Performed by Anthony Roth Costanzo
2. Hope Is a Thing With Feathers - Performed by Angela McCluskey & The Cantelon Ensemble
3. Coming - Written by Philip Larkin. Read by Sam Mendes
4. Many Worlds - Performed by Robert Ames
5. I Put on My Fur Coat - Written by Jane Wong. Read by Sofia Subercaseaux
6. Planeaciones - Performed by Angélica Negrón
7. Wingspan - Performed by Briana Marela
8. Poems - Written by Ruth Stone. Read by Edwina von Gal
9. Jacob Riis - Stuart Bogie and Domenica Fossati. Performed by Domenica Fossati
10. Used Beak - Performed by Craig Wedren
11. ‘sweet spring is your - Written by E. E. Cummings. Read by John Lithgow
12. Pettirosso - Daniele Luppi. Performed by Giacomo Bianchi
1. Voice & Birds - Performed by Anton Pearson (Squid)
2. Lies About Sea Creatures - Written by Ada Limón. Read by Olivia Wilde
3. The Owl of Cranston - Performed by Julian Lage & Bill Frisell
4. Tanager Time - Performed by Mac McCaughan
5. Montezuma Oropendola - Performed by Chris Watson
6. In the World - Written by Brigid Lowry. Read by Toni Collette
7. Tweetstorm - Performed by Chilly Gonzales
8. Abide - Written by Jake Adam York. Read by Jarvis Cocker
9. Keep Me Warm (Crèche) - Performed by Julia Holter
10. Migration - Performed by Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith
11. Kría - Performed by Jana Winderen
12. The Wild Geese - Written by Wendell Berry. Read by Michael Pollan
1. For the Robin on My Porch - Written by Andrea Potos. Read by Bette Midler
2. May Birds - Performed by Nico Muhly
3. Etude No. 2 (Thomas Bartlett remix) - Composed by Philip Glass. Performed by Maki Namekawa
4. Beginning - Written by W.S. Merwin. Read by Stephen Park
5. Passerine - Performed by Balmorhea
6. Here - Written by Kim Addonizio. Read by Odessa Young
7. Mourning Dove - Performed by Holland Andrews
8. One Heart - Written by Li-Young Lee. Read by Christiane Amanpour
9. Perched - Performed by Anna Clyne feat. Nathalie Joachim
10. Syrinx - Performed by Daniel Thorne
11. Toy Boat - Written and read by Ocean Vuong
1. I was popular in certain circles… - Written and read by Gabrielle Calvocoressi
2. Strange Signals From Jerry the Wood Pigeon - Performed by Peter Broderick
3. Birdbrain - Performed by David Van Tieghem
4. Ode to the Hummingbird - Written by Pablo Neruda. Read by Daryl Hannah
5. Bells and Birds - Performed by Alexandre Desplat
6. Skylarks & Magpies - Performed by Bibio
7. End-of-Summer Haibun - Written by Aimee Nezhukumatathil. Read by Winslow Bright
8. Screech for Scratch - Performed by Annie Gosfield
9. Rørsanger - Performed by David Rothenberg and Benedicte Maurseth
10. Sandpiper - Written by Elizabeth Bishop. Read by Michael Keaton
11. Silver Horns - Performed by Sarah Davachi
1. An Exercise in Love - Written by Diane Di Prima. Read by Riley Keough
2. Brown Thrasher - Performed by Animal Collective
3. Chant for the Swinging Swallows - Performed by My Cat Is An Alien
4. Coast - Written by Alice Jones. Read by Grace Gummer
5. In Her Secret Garden - Performed by Julianna Barwick
6. emu808 - Performed by Sam Gendel
7. Now Is the Time - Performed by Money Mark
8. Cocoa Morning - Written by Bob Kaufman. Read by Adrien Brody
9. Calthra - Performed by Tommy Guerrero
10. Morning Rituals - Performed by Shabaka Hutchings feat. Esperanza Spalding
11. Redbird Love - Written and read by Joy Harjo
12. The Ruined Spring - Performed by Zander Schloss
1. I Love You Earth (Thomas Bartlett remix) - Performed by ANOHNI & YOKO ONO
2. Murmuration - Performed by Robert M Thomas x Daisy Chute
3. St Kevin and the Blackbird - Written by Seamus Heaney. Read by Liam Neeson
4. Thirow Dio - Performed by Mamadou Kelly
5. Grus Grus - Performed by Evan Parker & John Coxon
6. Star and Crescent - Written by Kenneth Rexroth. Read by Elliot Bergman
7. Mockingbird Song - Performed by Saunder Jurriaans & Danny Bensi
8. Morning Calls - Performed by Carter Burwell
9. [“Always in the distance”] - Written by Wendell Berry. Read by Randall Poster
10. [“The cherries turn ripe, ripe,”] - Written by Wendell Berry. Read by Lili Taylor
11. Serenade at 2 - Performed by Anne Müller
12. paired: unpaired - Music by Oliver Coates. Performed by Rosa Arnold and Jeanita Vriens of the Ragazze Quartet
13. Re: Happiness, in Pursuit Thereof - Written by C. D. Wright. Read by Hailey Benton Gates