| Description |
1 online resource (208 pages, 1 unnumbered page of plates) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Note |
"Illustrated by William Blair Mansell and Sheila Smith"--Cover. |
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Page 208 blank for "Notes." |
| Contents |
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. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Birds -- Ontario.
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Birds. |
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Ontario. |
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Bird watching -- Ontario -- Humor.
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Bird watching. |
| Genre/Form |
Humor.
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Electronic books.
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Humor.
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| Added Author |
Mansell, William, 1908-
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Smith, Sheila.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Mansell, William, 1908- Birds of the cottage country. Kitchener, Ont. : McBain Publications, ©1985 0920469027 9780920469026 (OCoLC)15177291 |
| ISBN |
9781554880997 (electronic book) |
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1554880998 (electronic book) |
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