Illustrated Guide to Common Animals of the East Bay Hills
Identify the birds at your backyard feeder, the bees and butterflies in your garden and that snake crawling across the driveway with this laminated field guide just published by the Garden and available in The Garden Shop for only $8.95.

New! Due to popular demand the Garden is taking mail and phone orders for our faunal guide, The Illustrated Guide to Common Animals of the East Bay Hills by mail or phone. Guides are $12 each including mailing and sales tax. Click here to download a form for mail orders. Phone 510-644-9807 to place your order with a credit card.

Faunal Guide Press

Botanical Garden Offers Illustrated Guide to East Bay Hills Animal Life By Cathy Cockrell, NewsCenter | May 17, 2011 "Now, two Botanical Garden principals, both zoologists by training, have created a simple, easy-to-use field guide to animals in the Garden and the rest of the East Bay hills — from the much celebrated newts found in and around the pond in the Garden’s - Asian section to Cooper’s hawks, black-headed grosbeaks and tiny Pacific chorus frogs that populate the trees." Read more... Honey Bee -
Apis mellifera (introduced)

It's a Hit
by Tom Stienstra, San Francisco Chronicle | May 8, 2011 "I'm wearing my Cal T-shirt in honor of a great new pocket-size, plasticized, folding guide "Illustrated Guide to Common Animals of the East Bay Hills," which is produced by UC Berkeley. It features dozens of detailed, full-color drawings of animals, birds and reptiles, and is available at the Botanical Garden off Centennial Drive above Memorial Stadium for $8.95.

A Guide to the Garden's Rich Animal Life

by Paul Licht, Director

As trained zoologists, Chris Carmichael, Associate Director of Collections & Horticulture, and I were immediately captivated by an idea brought to us last year by docent Michael Chinn to create a guide to the animals of the Garden. Our rich fauna has always been a source of interest for visitors (besides the ever popular birds and bees, few children can resist the abundance of newts in winter and lizards in summer); but the only resources were the commercial guides, typically focused on a single group of animals, like bird, reptiles or butterflies.

Black-headed Grosbeak
Pheucticus melanocephalus

As the project evolved, our goal was to provide a single general reference to all the common animals of the Garden, which basically encompass the fauna of the surrounding East Bay Hills. The result was a laminated field guide with beautiful original illustrations of 10 reptiles, 5 amphibians, 18 mammals, 61 birds and 21 insects plus the banana slug. Illustrations were provided by local artist Dana Gardner, already widely experienced in producing such field guides. This is a first of its kind for us and we hope will further heighten the appreciation for all that is wonderful about our environment. These efforts were supported by gifts from the Leo O. Dorji fund and Tom and Karen Mulvaney.

Gopher Snake Pituophis catenifer