Download or read book The Great Cormorants of Eastern Canada written by Anthony J. Erskine and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents an examination of recent data, chiefly from the Maritime Provinces, on the great cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo). Reference is also made to the double-crested cormorant (P. auritus), a species often confused with P. carbo in historical records. The historical records of cormorant numbers and distribution are summarized, and some details are included on the breeding biology and reproductive success of P. carbo in eastern Canada as a baseline against which to measure future changes.
Download or read book Birds of Eastern Canada written by DK and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2023-04-11 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. + Features over 350 full-colour photographs + Each page includes a notes section for recording bird-watching activities + Both titles include rare birds About the Editor - David M. Bird is Emeritus Professor of Wildlife Biology and former Director of the Avian Science and Conservation Centre at McGill University. As a past president of the Society of Canadian Ornithologists, a director with Bird Studies Canada, and a Fellow of the American Ornithologists' Union, he has received several awards for his conservation and education efforts. Dr. Bird is a regular columnist for both Bird Watcher's Digest and Canadian Wildlife and is the author of several books and over 200 scientific publications. He is the consultant editor for DK's Birds of Canada, Birds of Eastern Canada, Birds of Western Canada, and Pocket Birds of Canada. Visit his website at www.askprofessorbird.com.
Download or read book Birds of Eastern Canada written by Percy Algernon Taverner and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Revised Atlas of Eastern Canadian Seabirds Shipboard surveys written by Richard G. B. Brown and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Rise of the Double crested Cormorant on the Great Lakes written by Canada. Environment Canada. Ontario Region and published by Environment Canada, Ontario Region. This book was released on 1995 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Wildlife Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 944 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Revised Atlas of Eastern Canadian Seabirds written by Richard G. B. Brown and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Summary of quantitative information on seabird distribution based on standardized observations made off eastern Canada by shipboard observers between 1969 and 1983. The area covered lies north of 40N and west of 40W and includes the Gulf of St. Lawrence and the waters off the Atlantic provinces, the eastern Canadian Arctic, and west Greenland. General information is given on the oceanography of the area, conservation and management, and vulnerability, with more specific data on particular species, including breeding and pelagic distribution.
Download or read book The Canadian Encyclopedia written by James H. Marsh and published by The Canadian Encyclopedia. This book was released on 1999 with total page 2652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edition of "The Canadian Encyclopedia is the largest, most comprehensive book ever published in Canada for the general reader. It is COMPLETE: every aspect of Canada, from its rock formations to its rock bands, is represented here. It is UNABRIDGED: all of the information in the four red volumes of the famous 1988 edition is contained here in this single volume. It has been EXPANDED: since 1988 teams of researchers have been diligently fleshing out old entries and recording new ones; as a result, the text from 1988 has grown by 50% to over 4,000,000 words. It has been UPDATED: the researchers and contributors worked hard to make the information as current as possible. Other words apply to this extraordinary work of scholarship: AUTHORITATIVE, RELIABLE and READABLE. Every entry is compiled by an expert. Equally important, every entry is written for a Canadian reader, from the Canadian point of view. The finished work - many years in the making, and the equivalent of forty average-sized books - is an extraordinary storehouse of information about our country. This book deserves pride of place on the bookshelf in every Canadian Home. It is no accident that the cover of this book is based on the Canadian flag. For the proud truth is that this volume represents a great national achievement. From its formal inception in 1979, this encyclopedia has always represented a vote of faith in Canada; in Canada as a separate place whose natural worlds and whose peoples and their achievements deserve to be recorded and celebrated. At the start of a new century and a new millennium, in an increasingly borderless corporate world that seems ever more hostile to nationaldistinctions and aspirations, this "Canadian Encyclopedia is offered in a spirit of defiance and of faith in our future. The statistics behind this volume are staggering. The opening sixty pages list the 250 Consultants, the roughly 4,000 Contributors (all experts in the field they describe) and the scores of researchers, editors, typesetters, proofreaders and others who contributed their skills to this massive project. The 2,640 pages incorporate over 10,000 articles and over 4,000,000 words, making it the largest - some might say the greatest - Canadian book ever published. There are, of course, many special features. These include a map of Canada, a special page comparing the key statistics of the 23 major Canadian cities, maps of our cities, a variety of tables and photographs, and finely detailed illustrations of our wildlife, not to mention the colourful, informative endpapers. But above all the book is "encyclopedic" - which the "Canadian Oxford Dictionary describes as "embracing all branches of learning." This means that (with rare exceptions) there is satisfaction for the reader who seeks information on any Canadian subject. From the first entry "A mari usque ad mare - "from sea to sea" (which is Canada's motto, and a good description of this volume's range) to the "Zouaves (who mustered in Quebec to fight for the beleaguered Papacy) there is the required summary of information, clearly and accurately presented. For the browser the constant variety of entries and the lure of regular cross-references will provide hours of fasination. The word "encyclopedia" derives from Greek expressions alluding to a grand "circle of knowledge." Our knowledge has expandedimmeasurably since the time that one mnd could encompass all that was known.Yet now Canada's finest scientists, academics and specialists have distilled their knowledge of our country between the covers of one volume. The result is a book for every Canadian who values learning, and values Canada.
Download or read book The Devil s Cormorant written by Richard J. King and published by University of New Hampshire Press. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Behold the cormorant: silent, still, cruciform, and brooding; flashing, soaring, quick as a snake. Evolution has crafted the only creature on Earth that can migrate the length of a continent, dive and hunt deep underwater, perch comfortably on a branch or a wire, walk on land, climb up cliff faces, feed on thousands of different species, and live beside both fresh and salt water in a vast global range of temperatures and altitudes, often in close proximity to man. Long a symbol of gluttony, greed, bad luck, and evil, the cormorant has led a troubled existence in human history, myth, and literature. The birds have been prized as a source of mineral wealth in Peru, hunted to extinction in the Arctic, trained by the Japanese to catch fish, demonized by Milton in Paradise Lost, and reviled, despised, and exterminated by sport and commercial fishermen from Israel to Indianapolis, Toronto to Tierra del Fuego. In The DevilÕs Cormorant, Richard King takes us back in time and around the world to show us the history, nature, ecology, and economy of the worldÕs most misunderstood waterfowl.
Download or read book Atlas of Colonial Waterbirds Nesting on the Canadian Great Lakes 1989 1991 written by H. Blokpoel and published by Nepean, Ont. : Canadian Wildlife Service. This book was released on 1996 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "During the 1990 breeding season, an inventory was made of Double-crested Cormorants(phalacrocorax auritus), Ring-billed Gull (Larus delawarensis), Herring Gull (L. argentatus),Great Black-backed Gulls (L.. marinus), Common Terns (Sterna hirundo), and Caspian Terns (S. caspia) that nested in the Canadian portions of the lower Great Lakes system ( ie. Detroit River, Lake Erie, Niagara River, Lake Ontario, and the St-Lawrence River downstream to Cornwall, Ontario; Fig. 1)"--Abstract.
Download or read book Lives of North American Birds written by Kenn Kaufman and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1996 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bestselling natural history of birds, lavishly illustrated with 600 colorphotos, is now available for the first time in flexi binding.
Download or read book Wildlife Abstracts written by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Time and a Place written by Edward MacDonald and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2016-06-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With its long and well-documented history, Prince Edward Island makes a compelling case study for thousands of years of human interaction with a specific ecosystem. The pastoral landscapes, red sandstone cliffs, and small fishing villages of Canada’s “garden province” are appealing because they appear timeless, but they are as culturally constructed as they are shaped by the ebb and flow of the tides. Bringing together experts from a multitude of disciplines, the essays in Time and a Place explore the island’s marine and terrestrial environment from its prehistory to its recent past. Beginning with PEI’s history as a blank slate – a land scraped by ice and then surrounded by rising seas – this mosaic of essays documents the arrival of flora, fauna, and humans, and the different ways these inhabitants have lived in this place over time. The collection offers policy insights for the province while also informing broader questions about the value of islands and other geographically bounded spaces for the study of environmental history and the crafting of global sustainability. Putting PEI at the forefront of Canadian environmental history, Time and a Place is a remarkable accomplishment that will be eagerly received and read by historians, geographers, scholars of Canadian and island studies, and environmentalists.
Download or read book The Canadian Field naturalist written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Taverner s Birds of Eastern Canada written by P. A. Taverner and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Limnology and Aquatic Birds written by Alan R. Hanson and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-03-20 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long-term population monitoring is an important tool in our investigations of the role waterbirds play in their environment. This book is international in scope and presents information on species as diverse as the Common Loon, Harlequin Duck, and Semi-Palmated Sandpiper, and habitat in locations ranging from Iceland to Japan. Papers presented in this volume further our understanding of the important role that limnology plays in determining habitat suitability for waterbirds.
