Field Guide to Birds of the Northern California CoastThe Northern California coast--from Monterey County to the Oregon border--is home to some of the richest avian habitats on the North American continent. Field Guide to Birds of the Northern California Coast provides a comprehensive ecological overview of this extensive and diverse region. It features detailed discussions of the area's most common waterbirds, raptors, and landbirds and highlights the most productive birding sites in each Northern California coastal county. Accessibly written and user-friendly, this guide contains nearly 250 species accounts that focus on seasonal rhythms and behavioral characteristics of each species. More than 130 color photographs and hand-drawn sketches depict the birds in context, and maps and occurrence charts indicate when readers might spot each species. |
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Field Guide to Birds of the Northern California Coast Rich Stallcup,Jules Evens Limited preview - 2014 |
Field Guide to Birds of the Northern California Coast Rich Stallcup,Jules G. Evens No preview available - 2014 |
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abundant adult America Online American April beach bill Bird Species birds Birds of North Black Bodega Bodega Harbor breeding plumage Brown Pelicans Calidris chicks coastal color Common Loon Cormorant diving ducks egrets Elegant Terns estuaries Farallon Farallon Islands feathers female fish flight flocks foraging forests freshwater Golden Gate Goose Grebe Gull habitat Harbor Hawk head headlands Heermann's Gulls Humboldt Bay islands J.E. Plate Lagoon Lake LENGTH male Marbled Murrelet Marin County marsh Mendocino migration Murre Murrelet nearshore nonbreeding North America Online ocean offshore Pacific Pacific Loon Park pelagic plumage Point Reyes ponds population predators prey R.S. Plate raptors rare region River Rock roost San Francisco Bay Sanderlings sandpipers Scaup scoters seabirds seen shorebirds shoreline Snowy Plover Sparrow SPECIAL STATUS Storm-Petrel subspecies Surf Scoter Swallow tail Tern tide Tomales Bay Turnstones vegetation Warbler waterbirds Western wetlands Wildlife WING SPAN winter Wren year-round