Birds of Point Reyes

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. Introduction Vantage Point Reyes A Quick Look Around The Clock and the CalendarTimings Everything! Going from Point A to Point B, but Ending Up at Sea Before You GoRespect Power Tools Be Prepared, Helpful, and Trustworthy Locating Birds Getting a Look Identifying a Bird Species Northern Harrier Sparrows of Point Reyes Turkey Vulture Black and Says Phoebes Surf Scoter Common Raven Ring-billed Gull Point Reyes Spring Seabird Migration Black Oystercatcher Pigeon Guillemot Snowy Plover Double-crested, Brandts, and Pelagic Cormorants Peregrine Falcon Common Murre Barn Swallow White-crowned Sparrow The Boyds of Summer Western Gull Townsends Warbler Northern Parula Tricolored Blackbird Red-tailed Hawk Western Bluebird and Yellow-rumped Warbler American Kestrel Shorebirds of Point Reyes Great Horned Owl Rock Wren Bird Group Species List Acknowledgments About the Author