Birds of Hamilton and Surrounding Areas: Including All or Parts of Brant, Halton, Haldimand, Niagara, Norfolk, Peel, Waterloo and Wellington (re Ontario, Canada)
by Curry, Robert; Hamilton Naturalists' Club; Fred Bodsworth, Lois Evans, Robert Z. Dobos, Bruce Duncan, Brian Wylie, Bill Read, Don Wills, Kim Barrett, Bev Kingdon, Audrey Gamble, Mike Street, Ralph D. Morris, D. V. Weseloh, William Lamond, ++++
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- Hardcover
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- ISBN 10
- 0973248882
- ISBN 13
- 9780973248883
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Hamilton: Hamilton Naturalists' Club, 2007. ----- # 012993 - The scan you see is the book you get. Glossy pictorial hard cover, headband, maps for end papers, (xx) 651 pages with b & w illustratios & photos plus 32 full page full colour photo plates, faint edge wear. "This large reference book to the status of over 386 species of birds that have occurred in the Hamilton Study Area (HSA) was published by Bob Curry and the Hamilton Naturalists' Club in October 2006, of 1400 copies sold out. The HSA covers a 25-mile/40 km radius circle centred on Dundurn Castle in Hamilton, and so also includes all or parts of Hamilton, Halton, Brant, Haldimand, Norfolk, Peel, Waterloo, Wellington and Niagara counties. As well as detailed bird species accounts written by Bob Curry the book features: 32 pages of colour photographs by such expert bird photographers as Barry Cherriere, Brandon Holden, Robert McCaw, Ken Newcombe and George Peck. Original art by Robert Bateman, David Beadle and Peter Burke. A provocative foreword by Fred Bodsworth. Chapters by leading local field naturalists covering a wide range of birding projects, and the history of birding activity in the area. Detailed colour maps of the regional hot spots and vegetation types. Seasonal bar graphs for each species. Contents include: Foreword by Fred Bodsworth / Preface by Bob Curry / Acknowledgements / Sponsors / Birding in the Hamilton area: A historical overwiew by Lois Evans / Birding hotspots in Hamilton and surronding areas by Robert Z. Dobos / The birding year by Bob Curry / Plates 1-16 / Changes in the birdlife of the Hamilton Study Area by Bob Curry / Introduction ot the species accounts by Bob Curry / Species accounts by Bob Curry / Species accounts by Bob Curry / Species accounts references / Plates 17-32 / Bald Eagle hacking by Bruce Duncan / Wood Duck conservation by Brian Wylie / History of the Eastern Bluebird in the Hamilton Stud Area by Bill Read / Prothonotary Warbler conservation in the Hamilton Study Area by Don Willis and Kim Barrett / The Trumpeter Swan reintroduction program in ther HSA by Bev Kingdon / Falconwatch in Hamilton, 1995-2005 by Audrey Gamble and Mike Street / Raptors ovr Grimsby by Mike Street / Ecological and behavioural research with the colonial nesting waterbirds of Hamilton Harbour by Ralph D. Morris / Studies of contaminants and population levels of waterbirds in Hamilton Harbour, 1970-2005 by D. V. (Chip) Weseloh / Hamilton Fall Bird Count by William (Bill) Lamond / Hamilton Christmans Bird Count by Ian Richards / Peel-Halton Counties Christmas Bird Count (1963-2005) by Mark Chojnacki / Lake Ontario Midwinter Waterfowl Census by George Naylor / Lake Ontario Pelagics: A Review by George Bryant / Egg Collecting in East Hamilton, 1960-1965 by Phil Waggett / Bird-banding in the Hamilton Area by David Brewer and John Miles / Seasonal Bar Graphs by Sheldon McGregor / Contributors / Index of Species. Check out the scan. 2nd Printing. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket as Issued. Illus. by Cover art and inside frontispiece: Robert Bateman. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.
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- Title
- Birds of Hamilton and Surrounding Areas: Including All or Parts of Brant, Halton, Haldimand, Niagara, Norfolk, Peel, Waterloo and Wellington (re Ontario, Canada)
- Author
- Curry, Robert; Hamilton Naturalists' Club; Fred Bodsworth, Lois Evans, Robert Z. Dobos, Bruce Duncan, Brian Wylie, Bill Read, Don Wills, Kim Barrett, Bev Kingdon, Audrey Gamble, Mike Street, Ralph D. Morris, D. V. Weseloh, William Lamond, ++++
- Illustrator
- Cover art and inside frontispiece: Robert Bateman
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket as Issued
- Edition
- 2nd Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0973248882
- ISBN 13
- 9780973248883
- Publisher
- Hamilton Naturalists' Club
- Place of Publication
- Hamilton
- Date Published
- 2007
- Size
- 4to - over 9¾" - 12&
- Keywords
- Curry, Robert; Hamilton Naturalists' Club; Fred Bodsworth, Lois Evans, Robert Z. Dobos, Bruce Duncan, Brian Wylie, Bill Read, Don Wills, Kim Barrett, Bev Kingdon, Audrey Gamble, Mike Street, Ralph D. Morris, D. V. Weseloh, William Lamond, ++++ Birds
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