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Birds of Western Canada

Editor: David M. Bird

2013

"Ideal for Canadian birdwatchers and bird lovers of every age! Each of these regional field guides are filled with page after page of magnificent close-up photographs and helpful full-page profiles of hundreds of commonly seen species. With an East / West division made at the 100th meridian (approximately Winnipeg) these handy books offer scientifically accurate and readable accounts of notable characteristics and information everything from behavior and habitat to nest construction and conservation status. Each profile also features diagrams of flight patterns and statistics of size, wingspan and lifespan. These invaluable reference guides are both detailed and accessible, with a user-friendly format that will make it easy for birders to enjoy either studying one species account at a time or browsing to make cross comparisons."

Birds of Eastern Canada

Editor: David M. Bird

2013

"Ideal for Canadian birdwatchers and bird lovers of every age! Each of these regional field guides are filled with page after page of magnificent close-up photographs and helpful full-page profiles of hundreds of commonly seen species. With an East / West division made at the 100th meridian (approximately Winnipeg) these handy books offer scientifically accurate and readable accounts of notable characteristics and information everything from behavior and habitat to nest construction and conservation status. Each profile also features diagrams of flight patterns and statistics of size, wingspan and lifespan. These invaluable reference guides are both detailed and accessible, with a user-friendly format that will make it easy for birders to enjoy either studying one species account at a time or browsing to make cross comparisons."

Quick Reference To Saskatchewan and Manitoba Birds

2013

"This easy to use, 12-panel nature guide features the most common and interesting species in Canada's natural regions. The species are grouped and colour coded for quick identification in the field. Attractive and useful, Saskatchean and Manitoba Birds features beautiful and accurate full-colour illustrations, sizes, common and scientific names and maps. The guide is laminated for endurance in rough terrain and weather."

Manitoba Birds: An Introduction to Familiar Species

James Kavanagh and Raymond Leung

2012

"A laminated, fold-out, portable reference that highlights the most common of Manitoba's bird species - from the yellow-headed blackbird and the great gray owl to the American avocet and the ruddy duck - this book is the perfect pocket-sized resource for the bird lover and nature enthusiast. This beautifully illustrated guide also includes a map that features prominent birding hot spots around the province."

Boreal Birds of North America: A Hemispheric View of Their Conservation Links and Significance

Editors: Jeffrey V. Wells

Cooper Ornithological Society

2011

"Reaching from interior Alaska across Canada to Labrador and Newfoundland, North America's boreal forest is the largest wilderness area left on the planet. It is critical habitat for billions of birds; more than 300 species regularly breed there. After the breeding season, many boreal birds migrate to seasonal habitats across the United States, Mexico, the Caribbean, and Central and South America. This volume brings together new research on boreal bird biology and conservation. It highlights the importance of the region to the global avifauna and to the connectivity between the boreal forest and ecoregions throughout the Americas. The contributions showcase a unique set of perspectives on the migration, wintering ecology, and conservation of bird communities that are tied to the boreal forest in ways that may not have been previously considered."

Checklist Of The Birds Of Manitoba

2009

"Manitoba's wide range of habitats support a great diversity of bird species. Of the 391 confirmed species included in this checklist, at least 306 occur regularly and 287 have bred in the province. Manitoba is an excellent place to find some of the most wanted species in North America, such as Spruce and Sharp-tailed Grouse, Yellow Rail, Ross's Gull (at Churchill), Northern Hawk Owl, Great Gray Owl, Three-toed Woodpecker, Sprague's Pipit, Connecticut Warbler and Baird's and Le Conte's Sparrows. Because of Manitoba's central location on the North American continent, vagrants can and do arrive from all points of the compass."

Finding Birds in Southern Manitoba

2006

"Complemented by maps and colour photographs, Finding Birds In Southern Manitoba is the only up-to-date birding guide for southern Manitoba. It combines, updates, and expands bird-finding information from the previous Birder's Guide to Southwestern Manitoba and Birder's Guide to Southeastern Manitoba. Coverage is extended north to The Pas and Thompson and now includes the Dauphin area, Duck Mountain, Porcupine Hills, and sites in the Interlake region. This book draws on the collective knowledge of dozens of birders, as well as data used to publish The Birds of Manitoba, to describe approximately 75 sites and routes and the birds that one can expect to find there. It also contains a list of Manitoba bird specialties and where to find them, bar charts of month-by-month abundance for all species, and the basic logistical information needed for a safe and enjoyable birding experience in Manitoba."

Compact Guide To Saskatchewan and Manitoba Birds

Alan Smith, Ken De Smet and Krista Kagume

2005

"A great introductory field guide to the birds of Saskatchewan and Manitoba. This book features over 80 species found across the two prairie provinces. Each account has two pages of colour illustrations and detailed information including each bird's common and scientific name, its size and voice, a range map, a photograph of the bird's egg, along with information on nesting, size of the egg and incubation period. Illustrations of similar species also are featured."

Saskatchewan and Manitoba Nature Guide

Krista Kagume

2005

"The Saskatchewan and Manitoba Nature Guide lets you discover the wondrous diversity of nature that lies right outside your front door. Whether you live in the city or the country, hundreds of species of plants and animals share your living space. Why not get to know the neighbors? Covering every inch of Saskatchewan and Manitoba's incredibly varied landscapes, this book teaches you to identify 385 species of mammals, birds, amphibians, reptiles, fish, invertebrates, trees, shrubs, herbs, grasses and ferns."

The Birds Of Manitoba

Manitoba Avian Research Committee

2003

"A comprehensive, illustrated book on the birds of Manitoba, describing all 382 species known to occur in the province as of 2003, including information on their distribution, migration, nesting, and other aspects of their natural history. Illustrated with colour paintings and sketches by Rudolf Koes, as well as individual range maps for each species, plus numerous photographs."

Manitoba Birds

Andy Bezener and Ken De Smet

2000

Pelicans to Polar Bears: Watching Wildlife in Manitoba

Catherine Senecal

1999

"Manitoba is not only the best place in the world to view polar bears and beluga whales, it is also one of the hemisphere's prime birding sites. Come to Manitoba to see wild wood bison, vast herds of caribou, elk, moose, bears of every color phase, and much more. This is the first and only complete wildlife viewing guide to Manitoba. The dozens of full-color maps, hundreds of photographs, and detailed background information will appeal not ony to dedicated birders, but also to those who value Canada's wild places."

The Snow Geese of La Perouse Bay: Natural Selection in the Wild

Fred Cooke, Robert F. Rockwell, David B. Lank

1995

"This unique title evaluates the results from one of the most significant long-term studies of birds in the late twentieth century. The authors evaluate the working of natural selection on Snow Goose plumage colour, seasonal timing of breeding, clutch size, egg size and body size. With information gathered over 26 years on 40,000 individually marked adult geese, 45,000 nests and more than 110,000 goslings at one colony in northern Manitoba, this work is a landmark in avian biology and population genetics."

The contents of the book are: introduction; the Lesser Snow Geese of La Perouse Bay; population structure and gene flow; fitness components model of Snow Goose life cycle; pairing, mating, and parental care; annual variation in fitness components; age effects; heritability of quantitative traits; plumage colour; clutch size; the timing of reproduction; egg size; body size; synthesis and conclusions; references.

A Birder's Guide to Churchill

Bonnie Chartier

American Birding Association

1994

A guide to birding sites around Churchill, Manitoba.

Birder's Guide to Southwestern Manitoba

Calvin W. Cuthbert, Jean I. Horton, Mamie W. McCowan

1990

A Birding guide that includes information about birding sites, speciality species and a checklist of 294 species.

Birds of Alberta, Saskatchewan And Manitoba

David A. Hancock and James Woodford

1989

"This title presents general facts and descriptions about the birds that inhabit the provinces of Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba, Canada. It includes information about birds, their classification, nest, flight patterns and migration."

Birder's Guide to Southeastern Manitoba

Norman Cleveland, Scott Edie, Gordon Grieef, George Holland, Rudolf Koes, Julia Maynard, Wayne Neily, Peter Taylor, Russell Tkachuk

2nd edition

1988

A guide to birding sites.

Wings Along the Winnipeg: The Birds of the Pinawa - Lac Du Bonnet Region, Manitoba

Peter Taylor

1985

Birds of the Gainsborough-Lyleton Area, Saskatchewan-Manitoba

Richard W. Knapton

Saskatchewan Natural History Society

1979

The Birds Of The Lake St. Martin Region, Manitoba

T.M. Shortt and Sam Weller

Royal Ontario Museum of Zoology

1937

From the introductory chapters:

"In 1930, the junior author was transferred by the Indian Department from Moose Factory, Ontario to the Lake St. Martin Indian Reserve, Manitoba. Continuing an interest developed at Moose Factory he commenced a study collection of birds, the skins being sent to the Royal Ontario Museum of Zoology. After four years, a fairly complete col- lection had been brought together and it was thought opportune for the Museum to make this collection as complete as possible and to publish an account of the birds of little-known Lake St. Martin. Consequently, in June 1934, the senior author was sent to the reserve to familiarize himself with the breeding birds of the region and to secure evidence of the presence of such obscure forms which might have been overlooked. Accompanied by his brother Mr. A. H. Shortt of the Manitoba Museum, Winnipeg, he spent the period from June 14 to June 27 at Lake St. Martin, made a collection of about 50 skins, took a number of sets of eggs and secured other evidence of the breeding of a number of additional species. Since then the collection has continued to grow through additions by the junior author and by the assistance of an Indian, John Marsden. The collection in the Royal Ontario Museum of Zoology now numbers 503 bird-skins representing 200 species. Definite breeding evidence has been secured for 86 species. In addition, stomachs of most of the birds collected and many internal and external parasites have been preserved .