The private lives of public birds: learning to listen to the birds where we live

Speakers. The brown bird: California Towhee ; The garden's keeper: California scrub-jay ; I can hear when they call: American crow ; Waxwing revelations: Cedar waxwing

Singers. Dawn's watcher: American robin ; The blessed halo: House finch ; This goldfinch is not lesser: Lesser goldfinch ; Devotion's fruit: Mourning dove ; The dusky demon: Northern mockingbird ; Autumn kings: White-crowned and Golden-crowned sparrows ; In the darkness she will listen: Great horned owl

Visions. Light of the oasis: Hooded oriole ; The beautiful purifier: Turkey vulture ; The view from above: Red-tailed hawk ; A little miracle: Anna's hummingbird

Tools for learning the birds.