Bestselling author and acclaimed nature illustrator Clare Walker Leslie invites beginning birdwatchers to hone their observational skills with this this easy-to-use visual guide. Using her signature nature journal illustrations, Leslie shows readers the key clues to look for, from the shape of the beak or talons to distinctive feather colorings, flight patterns, and behavioral traits. She offers simple prompts that encourage readers to embrace curiosity and take a closer look: Where are you? What season is it? How is that bird moving or eating? With an emphasis on the birds that are most likely to be seen at a feeder, in a city park, or at a nature preserve, How to Look at a Bird makes bird watching, identification, and appreciation accessible to everyone, no matter where they live. AUTHOR: Clare Walker Leslie is a nationally known wildlife artist, author, and educator. For more than 30 years, she has been connecting people of all ages to nature using drawing, writing, and observation of the outdoors. Her books include the bestsellers Keeping a Nature Journal and The Nature Connection, as well as The Curious Nature Guide, Nature Journal, and Drawn to Nature. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Granville, Vermont. SELLING POINTS: . Unique visual guide accessible for beginning bird watchers, focused on the simple joy of close observation. Renowned nature illustrator Clare Walker Leslie introduces readers to the key features to look for in observing and identifying the most common birds, with delightful illustrations of types of beaks, feathers, basic behaviors, and more. . From a bestselling author and "godmother" of the nature journaling movement. Since the publication of Keeping a Nature Journal, originally published in 1998 (150,000 copies in print), Clare Walker Leslie has inspired thousands of people of all ages to become keen observers of the natural world and create illustrated journals that capture the wonder and small pleasures of nature right around them.