The Marin County breeding bird atlas: a distributional and natural history of coastal California birds (California avifauna series)

The first breeding bird atlas in western North America this book provides species accounts with distribution maps for 163 species of breeding birds most of which occur throughout the West. It explains the climate ocean cycles and vegetation communities that influence breeding birds in coastal California and details the habitat needs nesting sites food requirements and foraging strategies for all species. In addition it traces historical trends of all species with reference to California as a whole plus suggests how to use atlas data for conservation