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

Biography/History:

Al Sandilands is Senior Ecologist and principal of Gray Owl Environmental Inc. His formal learning focused on fisheries and aquatic entomology but, through his long-time interest in birds, he evolved into a wildlife biologist. For most of his career, he has been an environmental consultant. Ross James, an ornithologist by profession, has pursued bird illustration for more than 40 years. He has published illustrations in two volumes of the Breeding Birds of Ontario, in the Atlas of the Breeding Birds of Ontario, on covers of Ontario Birds, and in the Birds of North America species accounts. He grew up in and currently resides in rural Ontario where daily contact with the natural world continues to inspire his interest in art and illustration.

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