Birds of Berkeley (eBook)

Oliver James (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2018
384 Seiten
Heyday (Verlag)
978-1-59714-452-0 (ISBN)

Infos

This charming, full-color field guide to 25 birds easily found in Berkeley proves that even the city's avian residents are a little quirky.Meticulously detailed illustrations capture each bird's distinctive physicality and temperament. A Burrowing Owl faces you in a full-on head shot, perhaps having just raised its raspy, chattering alarm call as you trespass on its last remaining Bay Area foothold at the Marina. The Anna's Hummingbird gives you a coy backward glance to assess if you've properly admired its flashy throat feathers, maybe having just performed its signature J-shaped courtship dive. Even in composition, each bird is strikingly individual, whether depicted in mid-dive or creeping into frame. While descriptions of identification and vocalizations are straightforward, author-illustrator Oliver James takes a delightfully creative approach to his write-ups of each species. He invites you to imagine that a Cooper's Hawk, for example, is Steve McQueen in a '68 Mustang, and you, a pigeon in a rental car with a poor turning radius, are fleeing through traffic: It's all over in a matter of seconds. A joy to read and pore over, Birds of Berkeley will enchant readers far beyond the city limits with its findings gleaned from painstaking and patient wildlife observation.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.2.2018
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik
• Schlagworte: bay area birds • Bird art • bird illustration • bird portraits • california wildlife • local birds • local nature
• ISBN-10: 1-59714-452-5 / 1597144525
• ISBN-13: 978-1-59714-452-0 / 9781597144520