A richly illustrated guide celebrates California’s coastal birds and the wonders of witnessing them."A compact treasury of natural history knowledge." —Burr Heneman, former executive director of Point Reyes Bird Observatory"A meditation on beauty and survival." —Amy Tan, author of The Joy Luck ClubA birding paradise, Point Reyes National Seashore boasts a breathtaking coastline that attracts an array of winged beauties and their flightless fanciers yearround. Both a waystation for feathered vagrants and home to a wealth of native species, this coastal sanctuary is teeming with avian life, and in Birds of Point Reyes expert birder and ornithological illustrator Keith Hansen celebrates this airborne abundance. From the sparrows and cormorants to the hawks and ravens to the wild wanderers who sweep through in vast seasonal migrations, Hansen introduces readers to the wildlife that soar and swirl overhead through over 25 awefilled portraits of Point Reyes&