Birds of the cottage country
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 s
Humor
1 online resource (208 pages, 1 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations
9781554880997, 9781459718319, 9781281957825, 9786611957827, 1554880998, 1459718313, 1281957828, 6611957820
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Introduction; 1. The Loons, Grebes, Cormorants, and Petrels; 2. The Herons and Storks; 3. The Swans, Geese, and Ducks; 4. The Hawks, Falcons, and Vultures; 5. The Grouse, Quails, and Pheasants; 6. The Cranes and Rails; 7. The Shorebirds; 8. The Gulls, Terns, Jaegers, and Murres; 9. The Pigeons, Cuckoos, and Owls; 10. The Nightjars, Swifts, Hummingbirds, and Kingfishers; 11. The Woodpeckers; 12. The Tyrant Flycatchers; 13. The Swallows; 14. The Jays, Magpies, Crows, and Ravens; 15. The Chickadees, Nuthatches, and Creepers; 16. The Wrens, Kinglets, and Gnatcatchers; 17. The Thrushes
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