Birds Of Algonquin Park

Excerpt from Birds of Algonquin Provincial Park, Ontario This account of the birds of Algonquin Park has been compiled to bring together the scattered information about the birds of the park to be found in more than two dozen published articles and in the unpublished records of a number of naturalists. Although this account is not primarily. Intended as a popular hand book, an effort has been made in preparing it, to make it as useful as possible to the increasingly large number of persons interested in observing and recording the birds met with during their outings in Algonquin Park. This list includes 169 species. There are records of breeding for 96 kinds of birds. Included in the list are 23 species that are to be found in the park all year round. Nine others live in the park only in winter. The total number of kinds of birds known to be found in the park in winter is, therefore, 32. Two species have been introduced but failed to establish themselves permanently. Twelve other species, not included in the 169 mentioned, have been considered hypothetical for the present. The rest of the birds in the list are transient spring and fall migrants, and of summer occurrence. The opening paragraph about each species gives a generalized state ment of the status of the bird, together with some description of the habitat where it may be found. The status includes such information as abundance and whether the bird is a summer or winter resident or a transient passing through only on migration. Occasional notes on habits and nesting are given. The general statement is based on the writer's personal experience, the scattered literature, manuscript notes that were loaned to me and the information on contiguous areas available in the Royal Ontario Museum of Zoology. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.