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Updated for the first time in twenty years with completely redrawn birds and more, the classic and remarkably easy-to-use guide for identifying birds in the Sierra Nevada. John Muir Laws began his lifelong project of connecting people to the natural world when he noticed that novice birders often distinguish birds by color and size rather than by family, genus, and species. Inspired by his observation, he created a guide to Sierra birds that assumes no prior birding knowledge on the part of the reader. The guide became the most popular of its kind, used frequently by local birders and visitors alike. Now updated for the first time in twenty years, The Laws Field Guide to Sierra Birds--originally published as Sierra Birds: A Hiker's Guide--features fully redrawn color illustrations throughout. Color-coded keys eliminate the time-consuming frustration of thumbing randomly through a guide, and a cross-index is also included for more advanced birders. All this in a format that is simply organized, lightweight, and small enough to tuck inside a pocket. Featuring more than 200 species, The Laws Field Guide to Sierra Birds is a friendly, invaluable resource for anyone seeking to identify birds in the Sierra Nevada mountain range.
List of contents
Sections
- Waterbirds
- Hawks & Owls
- Red Birds
- Orange Birds
- Yellow Birds
- Green Birds
- Blue Birds
- Gray, Black, and White Birds
- Brown Birds
About the author
John Muir Laws is an award-winning naturalist, educator, and artist with degrees in conservation and resource studies, wildlife biology, and scientific illustration. His books include
The Laws Field Guide to the Sierra Nevada, The Laws Guide to Drawing Birds, The Laws Guide to Nature Drawing and Journaling, and (with Emilie Lygren)
How to Teach Nature Journaling, all published by Heyday. A principal innovator in the global nature journaling movement, he is cofounder of the Wild Wonder Foundation (wildwonder.org), a nonprofit encouraging nature connection through art and science. Visit his website at johnmuirlaws.com.
Summary
Updated for the first time in twenty years, the classic and remarkably easy-to-use guide for identifying birds in the Sierra Nevada.
John Muir Laws began his lifelong project of connecting people to the natural world when he noticed that novice birders often distinguish birds by color and size rather than by family, genus, and species. Inspired by his observation, he created a guide to Sierra birds that assumes no prior birding knowledge on the part of the reader. The guide became the most popular of its kind, used frequently by local birders and visitors alike. Now updated for the first time in twenty years, The Laws Field Guide to Sierra Birds—originally published as Sierra Birds: A Hiker’s Guide—features fully redrawn color illustrations throughout.
Color-coded keys eliminate the time-consuming frustration of thumbing randomly through a guide, and a cross-index is also included for more advanced birders. All this in a format that is simply organized, lightweight, and small enough to tuck inside a pocket. Featuring more than 200 species, The Laws Field Guide to Sierra Birds is a friendly, invaluable resource for anyone seeking to identify birds in the Sierra Nevada mountain range.
Foreword
- Co-op available.
- Promotion through author's social media (25.4K followers on Instagram) and Wild Wonder Foundation (10K followers on Instagram).
- Pre-order promotion through the annual Wild Wonder Conference, widely attended international nature journaling conference in September 2024.
- John Muir Laws will appear in two events leading up to this publication with Amy Tan to promote her new book, The Backyard Bird Chronicles. Amy Tan learned to draw birds from taking John Muir Laws' classes.
- National media outreach with a focus on nature publications and podcasts, California-facing public media outlets, various Audubon chapter newsletters, and the ubiquitous field of West Coast nature and birding influencers.
- Book tour pairing John Muir Laws with other prominent nature authors like Obi Kaufmann.
- Targeted digital advertising across Instagram, FB, Amazon sponsored product ads, and the Google ad network.
- Ad in Ingram digital supplement.
