Birds of Ontario [electronic resource] : habitat requirements, limiting factors, and status. Volume 1, Nonpasserines. Waterfowl through cranes / Al Sandilands ; with illustrations by Ross James.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sandilands, Allan P.

Series:

Birds of Ontario : habitat requirements, limiting factors, and status

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Birds--Habitat--Ontario.

Birds.

Birds--Effect of habitat modification on--Ontario.

Bird populations--Ontario.

Bird populations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (394 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Vancouver : UBC Press, c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This work provides a comprehensive summary of the life history requirements of bird species in the Ontario, including information on habitat, limiting factors, and status.

Contents:

""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""Scope and Sources of Information""; ""Format of the Species Accounts""; ""Breeding Season""; ""Migration""; ""Winter""; ""Mapping""; ""Future Research""; ""SPECIES ACCOUNTS""; ""Snow Goose""; ""Ross�s Goose""; ""Brant""; ""Canada Goose""; ""Mute Swan""; ""Trumpeter Swan""; ""Tundra Swan""; ""Wood Duck""; ""Gadwall""; ""American Wigeon""; ""American Black Duck""; ""Mallard""; ""Blue-winged Teal""; ""Cinnamon Teal""; ""Northern Shoveler""; ""Northern Pintail""; ""Green-winged Teal""; ""Canvasback""; ""Redhead""; ""Ring-necked Duck""

""Greater Scaup""""Lesser Scaup""; ""King Eider""; ""Common Eider""; ""Surf Scoter""; ""White-winged Scoter""; ""Black Scoter""; ""Long-tailed Duck""; ""Bufflehead""; ""Common Goldeneye""; ""Hooded Merganser""; ""Common Merganser""; ""Red-breasted Merganser""; ""Ruddy Duck""; ""Gray Partridge""; ""Ring-necked Pheasant""; ""Ruffed Grouse""; ""Spruce Grouse""; ""Willow Ptarmigan""; ""Sharp-tailed Grouse""; ""Greater Prairie-Chicken""; ""Wild Turkey""; ""Northern Bobwhite""; ""Red-throated Loon""; ""Pacific Loon""; ""Common Loon""; ""Pied-billed Grebe""; ""Horned Grebe""; ""Red-necked Grebe""

""Eared Grebe""""American White Pelican""; ""Double-crested Cormorant""; ""American Bittern""; ""Least Bittern""; ""Great Blue Heron""; ""Great Egret""; ""Snowy Egret""; ""Cattle Egret""; ""Green Heron""; ""Black-crowned Night-Heron""; ""Turkey Vulture""; ""Osprey""; ""Bald Eagle""; ""Northern Harrier""; ""Sharp-shinned Hawk""; ""Cooper�s Hawk""; ""Northern Goshawk""; ""Red-shouldered Hawk""; ""Broad-winged Hawk""; ""Swainson�s Hawk""; ""Red-tailed Hawk""; ""Rough-legged Hawk""; ""Golden Eagle""; ""American Kestrel""; ""Merlin""; ""Gyrfalcon""; ""Peregrine Falcon""; ""Yellow Rail""

""King Rail""""Virginia Rail""; ""Sora""; ""Common Moorhen""; ""American Coot""; ""Sandhill Crane""; ""APPENDICES""; ""Abbreviations Used in the Text""; ""Plants and Animals Mentioned in the Text""; ""Literature Cited""; ""Index to Common and Scientific Bird Names""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-282-74070-9

9786612740701

0-7748-5159-7

OCLC:

923444600