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Birds of Ontario: Habitat Requirements, Limiting Factors, and Status
Volume 2–Nonpasserines: Shorebirds Through Woodpeckers
Al Sandilands (Author), Ross James (Illustrated by)
9780774817622
Hardback, published 1 June 2010
392 pages, 80 maps, 84 drawings of birds
25.4 x 21.6 x 2.9 cm, 1.08 kg
The volumes in the Birds of Ontario series summarize life history requirements of bird species that are normally part of the ecology of Ontario. This is the second volume in the series and completes the treatment of the nonpasserine bird species occurring in Ontario on a regular basis. Information on habitat, limiting factors, and status is summarized for 83 species in this volume. These topics are covered for the three primary avian seasons: breeding, migration, and winter. Habitat, nest sites, territoriality, site fidelity, annual reproductive effort, habitat loss and degradation, environmental contaminants, and a variety of other topics are covered in the species accounts. Maps depicting breeding and wintering range are presented for most species along with drawings by Ross James. Birds of Ontario is an essential reference source for wildlife biologists, environmental consultants, and planners preparing or reviewing environmental impact statements and environmental assessments. Serious birders will find the volumes of interest as well. Although the books focus on Ontario birds, the information is highly relevant to adjacent provinces and states.
INTRODUCTION Scope and Sources of Information Format of the Species Accounts Future Research SPECIES ACCOUNTS Black-bellied Plover American Golden-Plover Semipalmated Plover Piping Plover Killdeer Black-necked Stilt American Avocet Spotted Sandpiper Solitary Sandpiper Greater Yellowlegs Willet Lesser Yellowlegs Upland Sandpiper Eskimo Curlew Whimbrel Hudsonian Godwit Marbled Godwit Ruddy Turnstone Red Knot Sanderling Semipalmated Sandpiper Western Sandpiper Least Sandpiper White-rumped Sandpiper Baird's Sandpiper Pectoral Sandpiper Purple Sandpiper Dunlin Stilt Sandpiper Buff-breasted Sandpiper Ruff Short-billed Dowitcher Long-billed Dowitcher Wilson's Snipe American Woodcock Wilson's Phalarope Red-necked Phalarope Bonaparte's Gull Little Gull Franklin's Gull Ring-billed Gull Herring Gull Iceland Gull Lesser Black-backed Gull Glaucous Gull Great Black-backed Gull Caspian Tern Black Tern Common Tern Arctic Tern Forster's Tern Parasitic Jaeger Black Guillemot Rock Pigeon Mourning Dove Yellow-billed Cuckoo Black-billed Cuckoo Barn Owl Eastern Screech-Owl Great Horned Owl Snowy Owl Northern Hawk Owl Barred Owl Great Gray Owl Long-eared Owl Short-eared Owl Boreal Owl Northern Saw-whet Owl Common Nighthawk Chuck-will's-widow Whip-poor-will Chimney Swift Ruby-throated Hummingbird Belted Kingfisher Red-headed Woodpecker Red-bellied Woodpecker Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Downy Woodpecker Hairy Woodpecker American Three-toed Woodpecker Black-backed Woodpecker Northern Flicker Pileated Woodpecker Literature Cited Index to Common and Scientific Bird Names