Ontbirds subscribers, The August 2008 issue of Ontario Birds (Volume 26, Number 2), the journal of the Ontario Field Ornithologists, was mailed out to members last Friday. Here are the contents of this 64 page issue: COVER:Painting of a female Black Scoter with a brood of five young by Barry Kent MacKay. ARTICLES:Ontario Bird Records Committee Report for 2007By Ian M. Richards. This year's OBRC Report is illustrated with 18 colour photographs and 2 field sketches. First documentation of Black Scoter breeding in Ontario.By Kenneth F. Abraham, Donald M. Filliter and Donald A. Sutherland.The article is illustrated with 7 colour photographs and 1 map detailing the first records confirming this new breeding species for Ontario. Wind turbines and birds - the Erie Shores wind farm experience: nesting birds.By Ross D. James.
A review of the nesting birds found adjacent to a new wind turbine installation in southern Ontario.
In Memoriam. Donald H. Baldwin (1934-2007): A classical naturalist remembered. By Gregor G. Beck.A tribute to a long-time Ontario ornithologist Don Baldwin. Illustrated with two black-and-white photographs.
In Memoriam. Marshall H. Field (1919-2007): Remembering a St. Thomas force of nature.By Winifred Wake.
A tribute to the late Marshall Field, founding member of many Ontario ornithological organizations. Illustrated with 2 colour photographs.
A colour-banded Great Egret from Ontario sighted in the Azores Islands.
By D.V. Chip Weseloh and Dave Moore.
A note on an interesting extralimital banding recovery of an Ontario breeding bird.
NIKON PHOTO QUIZGlenn Coady tests us with a photograph giving a "scope view" of an adult passerine. MEMBERSHIP
OFO Membership is $35 yearly in Canada. Members receive three issues of OFO News and three issues of Ontario Birds. To become an OFO member, please email Eleanor Beagan, Membership Secretary, etbeagan at sympatico dot ca
For more information on OFO membership, please visit: http://www.ofo.ca/aboutus/membership.php The editors of Ontario Birds would like to take this opportunity to thank the membership for your continued support of the journal and your role in the ongoing success of the Ontario Field Ornithologists. Glenn Coady, Ross James, Chip WeselohEditors, Ontario Birds
Ontbirds subscribers, The August 2008 issue of Ontario Birds (Volume 26, Number 2), the journal of the Ontario Field Ornithologists, was mailed out to members last Friday. Here are the contents of this 64 page issue: COVER:Painting of a female Black Scoter with a brood of five young by Barry Kent MacKay. ARTICLES:Ontario Bird Records Committee Report for 2007By Ian M. Richards. This year's OBRC Report is illustrated with 18 colour photographs and 2 field sketches. First documentation of Black Scoter breeding in Ontario.By Kenneth F. Abraham, Donald M. Filliter and Donald A. Sutherland.The article is illustrated with 7 colour photographs and 1 map detailing the first records confirming this new breeding species for Ontario. Wind turbines and birds - the Erie Shores wind farm experience: nesting birds.By Ross D. James.
A review of the nesting birds found adjacent to a new wind turbine installation in southern Ontario.
In Memoriam. Donald H. Baldwin (1934-2007): A classical naturalist remembered. By Gregor G. Beck.A tribute to a long-time Ontario ornithologist Don Baldwin. Illustrated with two black-and-white photographs.
In Memoriam. Marshall H. Field (1919-2007): Remembering a St. Thomas force of nature.By Winifred Wake.
A tribute to the late Marshall Field, founding member of many Ontario ornithological organizations. Illustrated with 2 colour photographs.
A colour-banded Great Egret from Ontario sighted in the Azores Islands.
By D.V. Chip Weseloh and Dave Moore.
A note on an interesting extralimital banding recovery of an Ontario breeding bird.
NIKON PHOTO QUIZGlenn Coady tests us with a photograph giving a "scope view" of an adult passerine. MEMBERSHIP
OFO Membership is $35 yearly in Canada. Members receive three issues of OFO News and three issues of Ontario Birds. To become an OFO member, please email Eleanor Beagan, Membership Secretary, etbeagan at sympatico dot ca
For more information on OFO membership, please visit: http://www.ofo.ca/aboutus/membership.php The editors of Ontario Birds would like to take this opportunity to thank the membership for your continued support of the journal and your role in the ongoing success of the Ontario Field Ornithologists. Glenn Coady, Ross James, Chip WeselohEditors, Ontario Birds
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