Delight in the Sierra Nevada's diverse avifauna with this long-awaited field guide Identify and learn about over two hundred and fifty birds of the Sierra Nevada.
From tiniest hummingbirds to condors with nine-foot wingspans; from lower-elevation wrens to the rasping nutcrackers of the High Sierra; from urban House Sparrows to wild water-loving American Dippers, Hansen's Field Guide to the Birds of the Sierra Nevada showcases artist-naturalist Keith Hansen 's sixteen-year project to illustrate the birds of the Sierra Nevada.
Paired with stunningly detailed portraits is text informed by decades of birding experience--prose that while firmly grounded in expertise will nonetheless delight readers with its whimsy, allusion, and affection.
Take the Bufflehead: A diminutive and endearing diving duck, which moves with spirited abandon.
Or the scrappy and antagonistic Merlin, holding dominion over winter skies, tormenting eagles, hawks, and vultures alike.
The White-tailed Kite is angelic in poise, a streamlined bird of unblemished tailoring; the Blue-gray Gnatcatcher sports a black eye-to-eye brow, imparting a Frida Kahlo-like stare.
This book is the field guide companion to the Birds of the Sierra Nevada: Their Natural History, Status, and Distribution , also coauthored by Edward C.
Beedy and illustrated by Keith Hansen (University of California Press, 2013).
| Bufflehead | A diminutive and endearing diving duck which moves with spirited abandon |
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