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.
Introduction
* Vantage Point Reyes
* A Quick Look Around
* The Clock and the Calendar—Timing’s Everything!
* Going from Point A to Point B, but Ending Up at Sea
* Before You Go—Respect
* Power Tools
* Be Prepared, Helpful, and Trustworthy
* Locating Birds
* Getting a Look
* Identifying a Bird
Species
* Northern Harrier
* Sparrows of Point Reyes
* Turkey Vulture
* Black and Say’s Phoebes
* Surf Scoter
* Common Raven
* Ring-billed Gull
* Point Reyes Spring Seabird Migration
* Black Oystercatcher
* Pigeon Guillemot
* Snowy Plover
* Double-crested, Brandt’s, and Pelagic Cormorants
* Peregrine Falcon
* Common Murre
* Barn Swallow
* White-crowned Sparrow
* The Boyds of Summer
* Western Gull
* Townsend’s Warbler
* Northern Parula
* Tricolored Blackbird
* Red-tailed Hawk
* Western Bluebird and Yellow-rumped Warbler
* American Kestrel
* Shorebirds of Point Reyes
* Great Horned Owl
* Rock Wren
Bird Group Species List
Acknowledgments
About the Author
