Published by the Pasadena Audubon Society, the new second edition of the “Birding Guide to the Greater Pasadena Area” provides a spiral bound, single volume presentation of thirty noteworthy sites in or easily reachable from Pasadena.
Down the road from our home is a grove of Douglas Fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii) trees. Native to the area, “Doug Firs” are easily found in most any field guide to trees that encompasses a geographic range in which northwest Oregon is included. However at the edge of this little grove is another tree – deciduous and smaller – that long perplexed me. Nothing in guide after guide to which I turned for guidance seemed to have anything quite like it depicted.
There are two basic patterns of thought when it comes to field guides of bird species. The first is to obtain one that covers a large number of species, including any possible rarities, so that any bird seen while afield is within the scope of potential reference. The other is to select one that is […]
As abalone has long been such a popular source of both food and decoration to humans, given the number of the latter so rapidly increasing over recent years, it’s not surprising that the populations of many of abalone species are already, or are now beginning to be, of conservation concern.