Birds of the Cottage Country is a virtual storybook account of the author’s personalized observations throughout Ontario’s cottage playground. It clearly illustrates the downright fun, vast beauty, and consuming involvement of bird watching – even for the most skeptical of laymen.
Bill Mansell’s daily experiences at birding, spread over a period of sixty-five years, result in such a familiarity with his subject that the reader is drawn as a participant into a delicately beautiful intimacy with avian nature.
Birds of the Cottage Country will be read by some solely for its humour and humanistic style; yet serious birdwatchers will also find it a refreshingly new guide and reference tool.
Authors
- Control Number Identifier
- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 598.29713
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 19
- General Note
- Originally published: Kitchener, Ont. : McBain Publications, 1985 Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- Geographic Area Code
- n-cn-on
- ISBN
- 0920469027 9781554880997
- LCCN
- QL685.5.O5
- LCCN Item number
- M35 1985eb
- Modifying agency
- CaBNVSL
- Original cataloging agency
- CaBNVSL
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (208 p.)
- Published in
- Canada
- Publisher or Distributor Number
- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)thg00602970 (OCoLC)605744894 (CaOOCEL)410401
- System Details Note
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Transcribing agency
- CaBNVSL
Table of Contents
- Contents 6
- Introduction 8
- 1. The Loons, Grebes, Cormorants, and Petrels 14
- 2. The Herons and Storks 20
- 3. The Swans, Geese, and Ducks 25
- 4. The Hawks, Falcons, and Vultures 33
- 5. The Grouse, Quails, and Pheasants 40
- 6. The Cranes and Rails 47
- 7. The Shorebirds 49
- 8. The Gulls, Terns, Jaegers, and Murres 56
- 9. The Pigeons, Cuckoos, and Owls 62
- 10. The Nightjars, Swifts, Hummingbirds, and Kingfishers 68
- 11. The Woodpeckers 74
- 12. The Tyrant Flycatchers 80
- 13. The Swallows 86
- 14. The Jays, Magpies, Crows, and Ravens 91
- 15. The Chickadees, Nuthatches, and Creepers 97
- 16. The Wrens, Kinglets, and Gnatcatchers 101
- 17. The Thrushes 106
- 18. The Mimids, Larks, Pipits, Waxwings, Shrikes, and Starlings 123
- 19. The Vireos 131
- 20. The Wood Warblers 136
- I: The Nesting Dendroicas 138
- II: The Transient Dendroicas 144
- III: Other Tree Warblers 148
- IV: The Ground Warblers 153
- 21. The Tanagers and Cardinal Grosbeaks 159
- 22. The Buntings 166
- I: The Towhees, Juncos, Vesper Sparrows, and Winter Buntings 167
- II: Chipping, Fox, and Crown Sparrows 173
- III: Song, Lincoln’s, and Grass Sparrows 181
- 23. The Troupials 187
- 24. The Finches 198
- List of Birds with Migration Dates 208
