River-Walking Songbirds & Singing Coyotes: An Uncommon Field Guide to Northwest Mountains

by Patricia K. Lichen, Linda Feltner (Illustrator)

Marmots sharing sentinel duty. Songbirds walking underwater. So much is happening, minute by minute, in the mountains of the Pacific Northwest. In this Uncommon Field Guide, author Patricia Lichen combines standard field guide information about habitat, appearance, and range with delightful and engaging descriptions of the little-known facts, surprising details, and amusing-even bizarre-tidbits rarely found in ordinary field guides.

Genres: Nonfiction, Nature

208 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 2001

Reviews

[Daniel Mitchell · Rating 5 out of 5]

cute, informative, my only complaint is that it needs more pictures

[Mitchell Friedman · Rating 4 out of 5]

A bit uneven. The entries almost feel random. The black and white art is really good, but there could use to be more of it - at least a picture for every entry. The writing is mostly fun, sometimes a bit too fun. The entries talk more about animal and plant breeding then they do identification. But unlike a reference book you can read it all the way through. 3.5 of 5.

[Skookum · Rating 4 out of 5]

A fine light read. The writing is a little too cute in places. It gets a fourth star because I love the subject matter. I'll read the next two books in the series for sure.

[Dani · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book, though with only a few pages per chapter lays out a good amount of information on each creature or plant. Also, you might find out that you're Canadian by the way you pronounce Pika.
Happy Canada Day!

[Lafcadio · Rating 5 out of 5]

Not so much for identification, more for natural history. Amazing narratives about the northwest's familiar flora, fauna, and fungi.

[Ellie · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fascinating and a very fun read!!!