Birds of the Los Angeles Region (Regional Bird Books) - Softcover

Kimball L. Garrett; Jon L. Dunn; Bob Morse

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0964081059 ISBN 13: 9780964081055

Publisher: R. W. Morse, 2006

Synopsis

This pocket-sized photographic guide features stunning full-page color photographs of the over 300 birds that live in the Los Angeles area (within 50 miles of downtown Los Angeles including Los Angeles, Orange, San Bernardino, Riverside and Ventura counties), along with their descriptions, the basics of bird watching, and a regional checklist. It is the perfect guide for beginning bird watchers.

About this title

About the Author:

Kimball Garrett, a lifelong resident of Los Angeles, is the Ornithology Collections Manager at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, past President of Western Field Ornithologists, member of California Bird Records Committee, and co-editor of the Southern California regional reports for North American Birds. With Jon Dunn co-authored Birds of Southern California, Status and Dsitribution and Peterson Field Guide to Warblers. Jon Dunn grew up in the Los Angeles area and is a bird tour leader for WINGS, chief consultant to the National Geographics Field Guide to the Birds of North America, host/writer for the Advanced Birding Video Series. Serves as a member of the California Bird Records Committee, the American Birding Association Checklist Committee, and the American Ornithologists Union Committee on Classification and Nomenclature. Bob Morse has seen over 830 species of birds in the United States, written/published 10 books, and regularly lectures on the joys of bird watching. He lives in south Puget Sound (Olympia) and has birded for over 40 years in the greater Puget Sound area.

About this edition

• Publisher: R. W. Morse
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0964081059
• ISBN 13: 9780964081055
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 496
• Illustrator: Drawings By Eric Kraig Map By Shawn Morse