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).
Table of Content
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Birding Tips
WATERBIRDS
SWIMMING
FLYING
WALKING
LANDBIRDS
UPLAND GAMEBIRDS
RAPTORS
MISCELLANEOUS LARGER LANDBIRDS
AERIAL LANDBIRDS
SONGBIRDS
Appendix A: Rare Birds
Appendix B: Full Checklist of Birds in this Book
References
Index
About the Authors
About the author
Keith Hansen illustrated and coauthored Hansen’s Field Guide to the Birds of the Sierra Nevada (Heyday, 2021), a field guide companion to Birds of the Sierra Nevada: Their Natural History, Status, and Distribution. He is a professional bird illustrator whose images have been featured in Discovering Sierra Birds; Birds of Yosemite and the East Slope; and Natural History of the Point Reyes Peninsula, among other books.
Edward C. Beedy, who has a Ph D in zoology, has authored numerous technical publications and articles about Sierra birds. He is the co-author of Birds of the Sierra Nevada and Discovering Sierra Birds.
Adam Donkin designs apps for major tech companies in Silicon Valley. He is co-founder of Flock LLC., where he creates mobile app experiences that encourage people to fall in love with nature through birding.
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