- Atlas of the Breeding Birds of Ontario
Resource Type: Book Published: 1987
- The Bedside Book of Birds
Resource Type: Book Published: 2005
- 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.
- Bird Cinema
Resource Type: Website Published: 2007 A video website for bird enthusiasts to watch and share original bird videos worldwide.
- 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.
- Birder Extraordinaire
The life and legacy of James L. Baillie Resource Type: Book Published: 1992 A biography of the naturalist Jim Ballie.
- Birders
Tales of a Tribe Resource Type: Book
- A Bird-Finding Guide to Ontario
Where the birds are and how to get there Resource Type: Book Published: 1982
- A Birdfinding Guide to the Toronto Region
Resource Type: Book Published: 1988
- Birds
A Golden Nature Guide Resource Type: Book
- Birds
A Guide to the Most Familiar American Birds Resource Type: Book Published: 1956
- The Birds of Newfoundland
Resource Type: Book Published: 1951
- Birds of North America
A Guide to Field Identification Resource Type: Book Published: 1966
- 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.
- The Birdwatcher's Book of Lists
Eastern Region Resource Type: Book Published: 1987
- 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.
- Canadian Museum of Nature
Media Profile in Sources Resource Type: Organization
- 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.
- Chimney Swifts Going to Roost and Inside
Resource Type: Film/Video
- 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.
- Creatures of habit and adventurous spirits
Resource Type: Article Published: 2008
- Dancing cockatoo
Resource Type: Film/Video
- A Dune Adrift
The Strange Origins and Curious History of Sable Island Resource Type: Book Published: 2004 The history fo Sable Island.
- A Field Guide To The Birds
Giving field marks of all species found east of the rockies Resource Type: Book Published: 1947
- A Field Guide to the Birds of Eastern and Central North America
Resource Type: Book Published: 1980
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Gamebirds
A guide to North American species and their habits Resource Type: Book Published: 1961
- 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"!
- Great Northern?
Resource Type: Book
- 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.
- A Guide to Feeding Winter Birds in Ontario
Resource Type: Book Published: 1991
- The House Sparrow
Resource Type: Article Published: 1988 Let's take another look at the house sparrow, and consider it for itself.
- 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.
- 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.
- Last of the Curlews
Resource Type: Book Published: 1954
- 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.
- 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.
- A Little Wilderness
A Natural History of Toronto Resource Type: Book Published: 1983
- 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. Id 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.
- Marxism and bird watching
Resource Type: Article
- 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.
- A Naturalist's Guide to Ontario
Resource Type: Book Published: 1979
- 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 theyre not intended to kill, including birds.
- 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.
- Radical Digressions 5
Resource Type: Website Published: 2008
- Rosa Luxemburg's Birds
Resource Type: Article Published: 2020
- Royal BC Museum
Media Profile in Sources Resource Type: Organization
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 whats called the "depredation permit" program.
- 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.
- The Singing Life of Birds
The Art and Science of Listening to Birdsong Resource Type: Book Published: 2005
- 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 cant 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.
- Swifts sleep on the wing - fact or myth?
Resource Type: Article
- 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.
- A Walk in the Forest
Resource Type: Book Published: 1966
- Welcoming the Bluebird
Resource Type: Article Published: 1987
- 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.
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