Download or read book The Great Blue Heron written by Robert William Butler and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With its striking plumage, the great blue heron is one of the most widely recognized wading birds in North America. Riding on kelp beds in the Queen Charlotte Islands, wading in coastal streams along the mainland, poised motionless at the water's edge on a misty morning, or nesting in the limbs of old-growth forests, this stately bird is a familiar sight on the coast of British Columbia. The largest colonies are on the Fraser River delta, an area of great ecological significance to the north Pacific. Despite a growing body of knowledge regarding many aspects of the species' breeding biology and courtship behaviour, the foraging and population ecology of this bird remains something of an enigma. In his beautifully illustrated book, Robert Butler follows the great blue heron through a year on the coast of British Columbia. He draws on more than a decade of work to throw light on the adaptability of this magnificent bird to a temperate climate, its diet and breeding habits, habitat use, and conservation. Although the great blue heron has become a symbol of wetland conservation, in recent years it has had to face new challenges as a consequence of rapid urbanization of its environment. In The Great Blue Heron the author also describes the B.C. coast and shares a vision for the conservation of the Strait of Georgia and the Fraser River delta.

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Download or read book The Patient Predator written by Robert William Butler and published by Canadian Museum of Civilization/Musee Canadien Des Civilisations. This book was released on 1995 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report describes a six-year study of the great blue heron (Ardea herodias) on British Columbia's Pacific coast. The study period included five breeding seasons and four winters. The researchers studied a colony of 85-100 pairs on Sidney Island and visited about 40 other colonies around the Strait of Georgia over 1986-91. This report presents the results of the study, with information on the heron's diet, food availability, foraging behavior, use of habitats by age-classes and sex-classes, seasonal shifts in habitat use, spacing of breeding colonies in relation to predators and foraging habitats, effects of nest site selection and time of breeding on breeding success, and local survival of age-classes.

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