The Laws Field Guide to Sierra Birds

Updated for the first time in twenty years, the classic and remarkably easy-to-use 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. Color-coded keys eliminate the time-consuming frustration of thumbing randomly through a guide, and a cross-index is also included for more advanced birders.

All this in a format that is simply organized, lightweight, and small enough to tuck inside a pocket.

Featuring more than 200 species, The Laws Field Guide to Sierra Birds is a friendly, invaluable resource for anyone seeking to identify birds in the Sierra Nevada mountain range.