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  1. Atlas of the Breeding Birds of Ontario
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1987
  2. The Bedside Book of Birds
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2005
  3. The Bird Almanac
    A Guide to Essential Facts and Figures of the World's Birds

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2004
    Wide-ranging comprehensive resource about the world's birds.
  4. Bird Cinema
    Resource Type: Website
    Published: 2007
    A video website for bird enthusiasts to watch and share original bird videos worldwide.
  5. The bird that travels 29,000km a year
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    The Rufa red knot's epic annual migration from Tierra del Fuego to the Canadian Arctic risks being grounded by climate change.
  6. Birder Extraordinaire
    The life and legacy of James L. Baillie

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1992
    A biography of the naturalist Jim Ballie.
  7. Birders
    Tales of a Tribe

    Resource Type: Book
  8. A Bird-Finding Guide to Ontario
    Where the birds are and how to get there

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1982
  9. A Birdfinding Guide to the Toronto Region
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1988
  10. Birds
    A Golden Nature Guide

    Resource Type: Book
  11. Birds
    A Guide to the Most Familiar American Birds

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1956
  12. The Birds of Newfoundland
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1951
  13. Birds of North America
    A Guide to Field Identification

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1966
  14. Birds & People
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2013
    A book on the relationship between birds and humankind, with contributions from more than 600 bird enthusiasts from all over the world.
  15. The Birdwatcher's Book of Lists
    Eastern Region

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1987
  16. Canadian Estimate of Bird Mortality Due to Collisions and Direct Habitat Loss Associated with Wind Turbine Developments
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    Impacts on birds from the development and operation of wind turbines in Canada.
  17. Canadian Museum of Nature
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  18. Chimney swift project asks Manitobans to preserve habitat for sooty bird
    Threatened species has undergone massive population declines over last 60 years, biologist says

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    It used to be the case that chimney swifts nested deep inside the rotten, hollowed-out trunks of dying old growth trees. They build bracket nests using twigs and saliva, which they stick to the sides of vertical surfaces. As forests were cleared for developments, the birds adapted to urban environments by nesting in chimneys but that habitat is disappearing as well.
    Modern furnace guidelines generally suggest building owners cap or line old chimneys to prevent anything from getting inside. Over time, chimneys have also been torn down, replaced or fallen into varying states of disrepair, jeopardizing the future of the chimney swift species.
  19. Chimney Swifts Going to Roost and Inside
    Resource Type: Film/Video
  20. The Common Swift - Anything but Ordinary
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    Most adult swifts spend almost their entire lives in the air. Except for breeding, adult swifts will typically eat, drink, sleep, and mate while flying. During nesting season, swifts are known to fly at least 560 miles per day. Many times, large groups of swifts – up to 2000 birds – will form feeding parties. These feeding parties position themselves over wetlands – lakes, river deltas, flooded areas – where small flying insects are commonly found. One of the ways in which swifts are able to fly for such long distances without landing is that they have the ability to sleep while in flight. In order to be able to sleep while flying, swifts can enter a state called unihemispheric slow-wave sleep.
  21. Creatures of habit and adventurous spirits
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2008
  22. Dancing cockatoo
    Resource Type: Film/Video
  23. A Dune Adrift
    The Strange Origins and Curious History of Sable Island

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2004
    The history fo Sable Island.
  24. A Field Guide To The Birds
    Giving field marks of all species found east of the rockies

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1947
  25. A Field Guide to the Birds of Eastern and Central North America
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1980
  26. First evidence of a 200-day non-stop flight in a bird
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    For several decades ornithologists have claimed that some swifts may stay airborne for almost their whole lifetime. Here we present the first unequivocal evidence that an individual bird of the Alpine swift (Tachymarptis melba) can stay airborne for migration, foraging and roosting over a period of more than 6 months. To date, such long-lasting locomotive activities had been reported only for animals living in the sea.
  27. Flying in the Face of Nature
    A Year in the Minsmere Bird Reserve

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1992
    The author describes conservation efforts around the world, using the Minsmere bird reserve in Britain as a starting point.
  28. Fresh Water Seas
    Saving the Great Lakes

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1990
    Weller takes readers on a tour of the Great Lakes region, tracing its natural history from the time before human habitation. He describes how the region has been affected by uncontrolled development to the point where it now contains one of the planet's most intensive concentrations of industrial and agricultural activity.
  29. Gamebirds
    A guide to North American species and their habits

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1961
  30. Glass buildings kill birds - architects must act!
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    Horrified at the giga-scale death of birds caused by collisions with trendy expanses of plate glass in modern buildings, James Fischer calls on architects to bring an end to the needless slaughter - and "save a billion birds"!
  31. Great Northern?
    Resource Type: Book
  32. A Guide to Bird Guides
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1988
    When you only have mere seconds in which to observe a bird and identify it, and you aren't already an expert ornithologist, the field guide you use, and your familiarity with it, become of prime importance. How it's arranged, the clarity of its illustrations and verbal descriptions, are crucial when you are trying to identify a bird from what has really only been a fleeting glimpse of your subject.
  33. A Guide to Feeding Winter Birds in Ontario
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1991
  34. The House Sparrow
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1988
    Let's take another look at the house sparrow, and consider it for itself.
  35. How Sleeping Swifts Keep To Their Course At 10,000 Ft
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    Swifts routinely fly to 10,000 ft at night-time, around 4,000 ft higher than previously thought. Swifts are also able to navigate through different wind speeds while sleeping, automatically adjusting their flight to stay on a specific course.
  36. The intelligence of ravens and the foolishness of (some) humans
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2021
    The problem with studies that continue to propagate the idea that intelligence is a single quantity, a thing that can be measured and quantified.
  37. Last of the Curlews
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1954
  38. Legacy
    The Natural History of Ontario

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1989
    A comprehensive, extensively illustrated natural history of Ontario, covering bedrock, soils, birds, mammals, insects, wildflowers, forests, prehistoric life, and much more.
  39. The Letters of Rosa Luxemburg
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2011
    Blending a passionate sensibility and a steely intellect with an unshakeable commitment to revolutionary socialism, Rosa Luxemburg is one of the towering figures of the twentieth century. In this comprehensive collection selection of Luxemburg's letters, her political concerns are revealed alongside the story of a vivid inner life.
  40. A Little Wilderness
    A Natural History of Toronto

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1983
  41. Longing for freedom, and grieving loss
    Reflections on watching swifts on a summer evening

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2020
    The chimney swifts lured me outside again this evening. I’d already been out for one walk, but my door was open, and hearing their calls pulled me out in search of them, as it so often does.
  42. Marxism and bird watching
    Resource Type: Article
  43. The Messenger
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    Published: 2015
    Documentary. A powerful reflection and intimate investigation that reaches from the northern point of the Boreal Forest to the base of Turkey's Mount Ararat to the urban streets of New York. As songbirds take flight and fight to survive in our changing world, The MESSENGER delivers a visually thrilling ode to the beauty and importance of these imperiled creatures.
  44. A Naturalist's Guide to Ontario
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1979
  45. New generation: Growing up reading Rachel Carson, scientists unravel risks of new pesticides
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    Like biologist Rachel Carson, whose 1962 book Silent Spring warned about the devastating effects of DDT, a new generation of scientists is trying to figure out if new pesticides -- which are being used in ever-increasing numbers, quantities, and combinations -- are harming living things they’re not intended to kill, including birds.
  46. Power naps and eating on the wing - how common swifts set 10-month flight record en route from Britain to southern Africa
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    The common swift stays constantly airborne for up to ten months at a time, new research reveals. The bird, ubiquitous in the UK and Europe, conserves energy by riding currents of hot air and taking “power naps” as it slowly glides from high altitudes.
  47. Radical Digressions 5
    Resource Type: Website
    Published: 2008
  48. Rosa Luxemburg's Birds
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2020
  49. Royal BC Museum
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  50. The Running Sky
    A Birdwatching Life

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2009
    A series of essays in the 'nature watching' theme, about birdwatching and the author's experiences while engaged in that pursuit.
  51. Ryan Reynolds and a host of other Canadian celebrities have joined forces to protect nature
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    Ryan Reynolds, Jason Priestley, William Shatner and Rachel Blanchard, star in A Force for Nature - a 30 minute television journey through some of our most magnificent but threatened landscapes.
  52. Scientists Finally Have Evidence That Frigatebirds Sleep While Flying
    Resource Type: Article
    According to a new study, the birds can stay aloft for weeks by power napping in ten-second bursts.
  53. Shot and gassed: Thousands of protected birds killed annually
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Reveal has obtained never-before-released data from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service showing more than 300 species of migratory birds -- from red-tailed hawks to American kestrels, turkey vultures to mallard ducks -- have been killed legally across the United States since 2011 to protect a wide range of business activities and public facilities under what’s called the "depredation permit" program.
  54. Siberia's Heavenly Lake and 'small peoples' of the High North at risk from oil drilling
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    A vital nature preserve in western Siberia, and the indigenous peoples that inhabit it, are at risk from oil development. Oil giant Surgutneftegas is already active in the Numto Park, but now they want to extend operations into its fragile wetlands, putting at risk snow cranes, the Heavenly Lake, and the survival of the Nenet and Khanty peoples.
  55. The Singing Life of Birds
    The Art and Science of Listening to Birdsong

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2005
  56. Strange Sounds Up in the Trees
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2020
    I'm being distracted by the sounds coming from up in the trees above my head. Usually I have some idea of what I'm hearing from up above -- swifts, robins, cardinals, sparrows, squirrels, cicadas later in the summer -- but these sounds I can’t place. They're just weird: a combination of whistles, clacking sounds, chuckling, rattling, in no particular sequence that I can make out, and certainly not musical.
  57. Swifts sleep on the wing - fact or myth?
    Resource Type: Article
  58. This Bird Can Stay in Flight for Six Months Straight
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    A study has shwon that swifts came stay aloft for more than 200 straight days straight.
  59. A Walk in the Forest
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1966
  60. Welcoming the Bluebird
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1987
  61. The World Without Us
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2007
    A thought experiment to see what would happen to the planet if human beings simply disappeared.

Experts on Birds in the Sources Directory

  1. American Museum of Natural History
  2. Natural History Museum


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