It’s a little, staple-bound 64-page booklet called “Pacific Coast Bird Finder: Identifying Common Birds Along The Pacific Coast” ($7.95 from Nature Study Guild Publishers). With black-and ...

With names like “knobby rams-horn,” “masked duskysnail” and “Hoko vertigo,” Pacific Northwest mollusks may have an amusing ... prey for a wide variety of animals, from mammals to birds to snakes to ...

Migration and winter: most birds breeding in the Southwest winter in Mexico, and most breeding in the Pacific Northwest move south into California in winter. Vagrant: casual across southern Canada ...