Hansen's Field Guide to the Birds of the Sierra NevadaAuthor :
Paperback
Published : Thursday 15 July 2021
Description
Delight in the Sierra Nevadaâ?Ts 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 waterâ?"loving American Dippers,A Hansenâ?Ts Field Guide to the Birds of the Sierra NevadaA showcases artist-naturalist Keith Hansenâ?Ts sixteen-year project to illustrate the birds of the Sierra Nevada. Paired with stunningly detailed portraits is text informed by decades of birding experienceâ?"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 Kahloâ?"like stare." This book is the field guide companion to theA 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).
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