This 450 page book is a culmination of 5 years of organized survey by amateur and professional birders, a biological survey effort unique in the history of wild

"[R]eports the results of fieldwork in Santa Clara County from 1987 to 1993 ... undertaken to determine the current status of all species of birds known to be b

Most owls are almost perfectly adapted to life in the dark. Their vaguely humanoid faces reflect the spectacular evolution of their hearing and vision, which ha