{"title":"Keith Hansen","description":"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.Edward C. Beedy, who has a PhD in zoology, has authored numerous technical publications and articles about Sierra birds. He is the co-author of Birds of the Sierra Nevada and Discovering Sierra Birds.Adam Donkin designs apps for major tech companies in Silicon Valley. He is co-founder of Flock LLC., where he creates mobile app experiences that encourage people to fall in love with nature through birding.","products":[{"product_id":"hansens-field-guide-to-the-birds-of-the-sierra-nevada-paperback","title":"Hansen's Field Guide to the Birds of the Sierra Nevada - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDelight in the Sierra Nevada's diverse avifauna with this long-awaited field guide.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIdentify and learn about over two hundred and fifty birds of the Sierra Nevada. From tiniest hummingbirds to condors with nine-foot wingspans; from lower-elevation wrens to the rasping nutcrackers of the High Sierra; from urban House Sparrows to wild water-loving American Dippers, \u003ci\u003eHansen's Field Guide to the Birds of the Sierra Nevada\u003c\/i\u003e showcases artist-naturalist Keith Hansen's sixteen-year project to illustrate the birds of the Sierra Nevada. Paired with stunningly detailed portraits is text informed by decades of birding experience--prose that while firmly grounded in expertise will nonetheless delight readers with its whimsy, allusion, and affection. Take the Bufflehead: \"A diminutive and endearing diving duck,\" which moves \"with spirited abandon.\" Or the \"scrappy and antagonistic\" Merlin, \"holding dominion over winter skies, tormenting eagles, hawks, and vultures alike.\" The White-tailed Kite is \"angelic in poise, a streamlined bird of unblemished tailoring\"; the Blue-gray Gnatcatcher sports a black eye-to-eye brow, imparting a \"Frida Kahlo-like stare.\" This book is the field guide companion to the \u003ci\u003eBirds of the Sierra Nevada: Their Natural History, Status, and Distribution\u003c\/i\u003e, also coauthored by Edward C. Beedy and illustrated by Keith Hansen (University of California Press, 2013).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51376902144223,"sku":"9781597145336","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/MLdip7dCPV9781597145336.webp?v=1789228910"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/keith-hansen.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}