Birds of the Cottage CountryBirds 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. |
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Contents
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4 The Hawks Falcons and Vultures | 26 |
5 The Grouse Quails and Pheasants | 33 |
6 The Cranes and Rails | 40 |
7 The Shorebirds | 42 |
14 The Jays Magpies Crows and Ravens | 84 |
15 The Chickadees Nuthatches and Creepers | 90 |
16 The Wrens Kinglets and Gnatcatchers | 94 |
17 The Thrushes | 99 |
18 The Mimids Larks Pipits Waxwings Shrikes and Starlings | 116 |
19 The Vireos | 124 |
20 The Wood Warblers | 129 |
21 The Tanagers and Cardinal Grosbeaks | 152 |
8 The Gulls Terns Jaegers and Murres | 49 |
9 The Pigeons Cuckoos and Owls | 55 |
10 The Nightjars Swifts Hummingbirds and Kingfishers | 61 |
11 The Woodpeckers | 67 |
12 The Tyrant Flycatchers | 73 |
13 The Swallows | 79 |
22 The Buntings | 159 |
23 The Troupials | 180 |
24 The Finches | 191 |
List of Birds with Migration Dates | 201 |
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Common terms and phrases
Algonquin Park American August barn swallow beach bird bird’s birder bluebirds Brook’s Mill buntings cabin chickadee chiefly chipping sparrow close colour Common Cottage Country cowbird crow ducks Egret favourite feeding feet female fields finches flight flock fly flycatcher Georgian Bay grackle grass grosbeak ground grouse Gull habitat Hawk heron house sparrow July larks loon male Mansell’s Lake maple marsh Merganser migration Muskoka nest northern notes numbers Occasional Ontario Pen Lake perch pine grosbeak purple finch Rare raven Rebecca Lake region road robin rusty Sandpiper sapsucker seems seen Sept shore Shrike sings snow sometimes song sparrow southern species spotted sandpiper spring spruce streaks summer Sunset Farm swallow tail tanager Tanglewood Tanglewood Cottage Tern thrush tree tree swallow Uncommon veery vireo warbler waxwing western Wilson’s wings winter wren woodpecker woods yellow young bird
Bibliographic information
| Title | Birds of the Cottage Country |
| Author | William C. Mansell |
| Illustrated by | William Blair Mansell, Sheila Smith |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Dundurn, 1985 |
| ISBN | 1554880998, 9781554880997 |
| Length | 216 pages |
| Subjects | › › Nature / Animals / Birds Nature / Birdwatching Guides Nature / General |
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