This has been known by outdoors people for literally centuries, probably millenia, because disturbing birds can ruin your hunt. I was just browsing this[1] book on my bookshelf where it is talked about extensively, and it is far beyond just a statement of fact.
If you like to spend time outdoors, definitely yes. It's mostly prose, but it is broken up into easily digestible chunks, so it's great to browse if you have a few minutes on transit here and there, or for a toilet book. A lot of the clues and signs are based around situations in the UK (prevailing winds, northern hemisphere, moss/tree types, etc), but with a little bit of work you can convert similar concepts to your locale. Which might be a good thing, because there is really more information than is possible to absorb from just straight up reading it - you need to get out in the field and practice it.
Besides for just gleaning more information about the environment, I've actually used knowledge learned from this book explicitly twice in the ~2 years I've had it - once to save my bacon, and once to randomly impress my girlfriend. I was hiking near my house in the Rockies with my girlfriend, and using the exact clues this article is talking about(and talked about in the book), I offhandedly remarked that I thought there might be another hiker coming towards us over a hill. She didn't think it was likely since we never encounter people on that trail, but 5 minutes later we crested the hill and there was someone just coming up the other side. The other time it came in handy was when I basically did something stupid(separated from a more experienced group in unknown terrain near sundown to help somebody else), and I was able to navigate us back at night using 4 or 5 different clues I recalled from the book.
Note though I haven't done any kind of comparative analysis of other similar books. I do like this one though.
[1] https://www.amazon.co.uk/Walkers-Guide-Outdoor-Clues-Signs-e...