Sy Montgomery

Author · 40 books

Part Indiana Jones, part Emily Dickinson, as the Boston Globe describes her, Sy Montgomery is an author, naturalist, documentary scriptwriter, and radio commentator who has traveled to some of the worlds most remote wildernesses for her work. She has worked in a pit crawling with 18,000 snakes in Manitoba, been hunted by a tiger in India, swum with pink dolphins in the Amazon, and been undressed by an orangutan in Borneo. She is the author of 13 award-winning books, including her national best-selling memoir, The Good Good Pig. Montgomery lives in Hancock, New Hampshire.

Series

The Hummingbirds' Gift

Series · 3 books

Books

Oceanic Manta Adventure

Saving the Angels of the Sea

2026

Il tempo delle tartarughe

Come l’animale più longevo ci insegna a prenderci cura di noi e del mondo

2025

What the Chicken Knows

A New Appreciation of the World's Most Familiar Bird

2024

Brave Baby Hummingbird

2024

Secrets of the Octopus

2024

Of Time and Turtles

Mending the World, Shell by Shattered Shell

2023

The Book of Turtles

2023

The Hawk's Way

Encounters with Fierce Beauty

2022

The Seagull and the Sea Captain

2022

The Hummingbirds' Gift

Wonder, Beauty, and Renewal on Wings

2021

Becoming a Good Creature

2020

Condor Comeback

2020

The Best American Science And Nature Writing 2019

2019

The Magnificent Migration

On Safari with Africa's Last Great Herds

2019

How to Be a Good Creature

A Memoir in Thirteen Animals

2018

Inky's Amazing Escape

How a Very Smart Octopus Found His Way Home

2018

The Hyena Scientist

2018

Amazon Adventure

How Tiny Fish Are Saving the World's Largest Rainforest

2017

Tamed and Untamed

Close Encounters of the Animal Kind

2017

The Great White Shark Scientist

2016

The Soul of an Octopus

A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness

2015

The Octopus Scientists

Exploring the Mind of a Mollusk

2015

Chasing Cheetahs

The Race to Save Africa's Fastest Cat

2014

The Tapir Scientist

Saving South America's Largest Mammal

2013

Temple Grandin

How the Girl Who Loved Cows Embraced Autism and Changed the World

2012

Kakapo Rescue

Saving the World's Strangest Parrot

2010

Birdology

Adventures with a Pack of Hens, a Peck of Pigeons, Cantankerous Crows, Fierce Falcons, Hip Hop Parrots, Baby Hummingbirds, and One Murderously Big Living Dinosaur

2010