Birds of Ontario: Habitat Requirements, Limiting Factors, and Status

Volume 2–Nonpasserines: Shorebirds through Woodpeckers

By Al Sandilands
Illustrated by Ross James
Categories: Environmental & Nature Studies, Animal Studies, Regional & Cultural Studies, Canadian Studies, Environmental History, Science, Technology & Society, Science
Publisher: UBC Press
Hardcover : 9780774810661, 368 pages, March 2005
Paperback : 9780774812290, 368 pages, February 2007
Hardcover : 9780774817622, 392 pages, June 2010
Ebook (PDF) : 9780774817646, 392 pages, January 2011
Ebook (EPUB) : 9780774843744, 392 pages, January 2011
Ebook (PDF) : 9780774851596, 368 pages, October 2007

Table of contents

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

The essential reference source for the habitat and life history requirements of birds of Ontario.

Description

The volumes in the Birds of Ontario series summarize life history requirements of bird species that are normally part of the ecology of Ontario. The first volume dealt with waterfowl through cranes; this volume deals with shorebirds through woodpeckers and completes the treatment of the nonpasserines. Information on habitat, limiting factors, and status are dealt with for the three main bird seasons: breeding, migration, and winter. It is an essential reference for biologists, planners, environmental consultants, and other resource professionals involved in environmental issues and management pertaining to birds. It is also a valuable reference for serious birders.