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California is a great place for wild birds and the people who enjoy watching them. Over 600 bird species--about two-thirds of the birds found in North America--inhabit, migrate, or visit here, especially the varied habitats protected within California's parks, forests, preserves, parks, and wildlife areas. This lavishly-photographed volume features usual and unusual birds in their wildland homes, throughout California seashores, deserts, mountains, wetlands, foothills, valleys, and chaparral country. The ever-present California Gull and the magnificent (and rare) California Condor are included plus 107 other species of wild birds. Extensive captions accompany more than 150 color photographs by some of Californias' premier bird photographers. Wild Birds of California is a tribute to the Golden State's tremendous wealth of wild birds and to the wild natural areas that sustain this abundance. These sanctuaries--nine National Parks, thirty-seven National Wildlife Refuges, eighteen National Forests and many other preserves, parks, and wildlife areas--protect exuberant concentrations of bird life and habitats critical to their life cycles.
About the Author
The text by Northern California writer-naturalist David Lukas examines the environmental history of birding in the Golden State. He has written extensively on California's birds and the natural history of the state, with numerous articles appearing in Audubon, Birding, California Wild, Orion, Sunset, and Wild Bird. Lukas serves as naturalist-in-residence at the Squaw Valley Community of Writers, teaches bird classes for the Yosemite Association, Mono Lake Committee, Sierra Nevada Field Campus, and the Sierra Club's Clair Tappaan Lodge. He is the author of Watchable Birds of the Great Basin.
Wild Birds of California,David Lukas,Companion Press (Santa Barbara, CA),0944197620,Birds & Birdwatching - General,Environmental Conservation & Protection - General,Nature,Nature/Ecology,Reference
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