Updated for the first time in twenty years with completely redrawn birds and more, the classic and remarkably easytouse guide for identifying birds in the Sierra Nevada.John Muir Laws began his lifelong project of connecting people to the natural world when he noticed that novice birders often distinguish birds by color and size rather than by family, genus, and species. Inspired by his observation, he created a guide to Sierra birds that assumes no prior birding knowledge on the part of the reader. The guide became the most popular of its kind, used frequently by local birders and visitors alike. Now updated for the first time in twenty years, The Laws Field Guide to Sierra Birds—originally published as Sierra Birds: A Hiker’s Guide—features fully redrawn color illustrations throughout.Colorcoded keys eliminate the timeconsuming frustration of thumbing randomly through a guide, and a crossindex is also included for more advanced birders. All this in a format that is