FIELD GUIDE TO OWLS OF CALIFORNIA AND THE WEST JOHN HENRY DEARLE soft graphite pencil and iconic

soft graphite pencil and iconic square Blackwing ferrule with a black eraser

Horace Pippin

This pretty-in-pink depiction of Pierre Joseph Redouté’s Bibliotheca Botanica Rosarum (1817–1824) is one of the prints featured in The Huntington’s Rose Garden Tea Room

Their love seems impossible at first

FIELD GUIDE TO OWLS OF CALIFORNIA AND THE WEST JOHN HENRY DEARLE soft graphite pencil and iconicMost owls are almost perfectly adapted to life in the dark. Their vaguely humanoid faces reflect the spectacular evolution of their hearing and vision, which has made flight, romance, and predation possible in the near absence of light. This accessible guide, full of intriguing anecdotes, covers all 19 species of owls occurring in North America. More than an identification guide, Field Guide to Owls of California and the West describes the biology and