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Sierra Birds: A Hiker's Guide (Paperback)

By John Muir Laws
$9.95
ISBN-13: 9781890771782
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Heyday Books, 1/2004
Cultural Writing. Nature. From the distinctive Mountain Quail and Great Gray Owl to the seemingly indistinguishable small brown birds, the Sierra Nevada is alive with bird life. Here is a brilliantly illustrated, thoroughly annotated, and uniquely arranged guide that anyone-with or without formal training-can use to identify birds in the Sierra Nevada, from the Feather River in the north through Sequoia National Park in the south. And it will fit in your back pocket. John Muir Laws is a Research and Education Associate of the California Academy of Sciences, as well as a wildlife biologist, environmental educator, and artist.

The Stokes Field Guide to the Birds of North America (Paperback)

By Donald Stokes, Lillian Stokes
$24.99
ISBN-13: 9780316010504
Availability: Special Order - Subject to Availability
Published: Little, Brown and Company, 10/2010
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The culmination of many years of research, observation, and study, the new STOKES FIELD GUIDE includes more species, more photographs, and more useful identification information than any other photographic field guide. The guide features 853 North American bird species and more than 3,400 stunning color photographs. And yet it's portable enough to fit in your pocket! The photographs cover all significant plumages, including male, female, summer, winter, immature, morphs, important subspecies, and birds in flight. Also included * the newest scientific and common names and phylogenetic order; * special help for identifying birds in flight through important clues of behavior, plumage, and shape; * detailed descriptions of songs and calls; * important behavioral information; * key habitat preferences of each species; and * the newest range maps, detailing species' winter, summer, year-round ranges, and migration routes. * a special downloadable CD with more than 600 bird sounds (from Lang Elliott and Kevin Colver) and 150 photographs: the calls and songs of 150 common North American species.


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