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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, &ldquo;a pigeon in a rental car with a poor turning radius,&rdquo; are fleeing through traffic: &ldquo;It's all over in a matter of seconds.&rdquo; A joy to read and pore over, <i>Birds of Berkeley</i> will enchant readers far beyond the city limits with its findings gleaned from painstaking and patient wildlife observation.

Примечание: Общая зоология Полный вариант заголовка: «General zoology, or systematic natural history : Vol. VII. Part II. Birds : with plates from the 1 authorities and most select specimens / by George Shaw, M.D.F.R. & c. ; engraved principally by Mrs. Griffith».

Примечание: Общая зоология Полный вариант заголовка: «General zoology, or Systematic natural history. Vol. 7, pt. 1., pt. 1. Birds».

Примечание: Общая зоология Полный вариант заголовка: «General zoology, or, systematic natural history. Vol. 8. Part 1. Birds / by George Shaw ; with plates from the first authorities and most select specimens engraved pricipally by Mrs. Griffith».

Примечание: Общая зоология Полный вариант заголовка: «General zoology, or systematic natural history : Vol. 8. Part 2. Birds : with plates from the first authorities and most select specimens / by George Shaw, M.D.F.R.S. & c. ; engraved principally by Mrs. Griffith».

Примечание: Общая зоология Полный вариант заголовка: «General zoology : Vol. 14. Part 1. Birds / by James Francis Stephens : or systematic natural history / commenced by the late George Shaw ; with plates from the first authorities and most select specimens engraved principally by Mrs. Griffith».