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Mammals of Alberta

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 1999

Author: Pattie, Don and Fisher, Chris

Publisher: Edmonton : Lone Pine Pub.

Call Number: 04.2 P27m

Author: Pattie, Don and Fisher, Chris

Publisher: Edmonton : Lone Pine Pub.

Published Date: 1999

Physical Description: 240 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 22 cm

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Mammals; Wildlife; Wildlife management; Alberta

Abstract: This comprehensive guide to the mammals of Alberta features 91 species organized in six major groups. All the species in the book are shown on pages 4 to 9 in a comparative reference chart. - Aurora

Notes: Ben Gadd Personal Library

ISBN: 1551052091

Accession Number: 2021.20

Call Number: 04.2 P27m

Collection: Archives Library

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Streams of consequence : dispatches from the conservation world

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 2023

Author: Fitch, Lorne

Publisher: Victoria, BC : Rocky Mountain Books

Call Number: 04 F55s

Author: Fitch, Lorne

Publisher: Victoria, BC : Rocky Mountain Books

Published Date: 2023

Physical Description: 217 pages ; 19 cm

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Wildlife; Wildlife management; Conservation; Animals; Alberta

Abstract: A collection of essays highlighting the splendour and diversity of the landscape of southern Alberta. Streams of Consequence weaves together a bit of “ecology for dummies,” a cross-section of stories and essays on Alberta’s biodiversity riches and treasured landscapes, and a backdrop of selections on conservation issues. These are stories of the land and of Alberta’s plants, fish, and wildlife told through the voice of a biologist with decades of experience on the front lines of conservation efforts. Through stories, metaphor, and allegory, basic ecological principles are made clear, ecosystems are described, and our human role in stewarding these natural treasures is revealed. Infused in these “dispatches from the conservation world” is the special magic of biology, taking mute organisms at a variety of scales and understanding their lives and habitats so that they have meaning and a connection to us. The role, the unstated objective of biologists, is to remind us, unceasingly, that it is only in our minds that we live apart from the natural world. These stories have power to engage and educate, to help create and sustain an ecologically literate constituency that knows and cares about Alberta’s wilder side. Readers can look back on the changes, weigh their significance, and think about where we came from, where we are today, and where the trend might take us if we choose one road or another. There are some rocks heaved at our economy-centred, consumer-driven world. Scattered between them are the acts of altruism, of caring, of forethought, and of stewardship. These are rays of hope amid dark clouds threatening our very existence. -- From publisher

ISBN: 9781771606691

Accession Number: P2023.25

Call Number: 04 F55s

Collection: Archives Library

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Thrushes, Thrashers, and Swallows*

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 1936

Author: Pearson, Gilbert T.

Publisher: National Geographic

Call Number: 04.2 P31t

Variant Title: *Robins and Bluebirds are familiar members of a famous musical family which includes the Hermit Thrush and European Nightingales

Author: Pearson, Gilbert T.

Responsibility: Gilbert T. Pearson

Publisher: National Geographic

Published Date: 1936

Physical Description: 13 pages ; illus.

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Birds; Birds--Alberta; Zoology; Zoology--Alberta; Wildlife; Wildlife artists; Art

Abstract: Pertains to the family Mimidae

Contents: Game Wardens find out who killed the cock robin Colonists found a “Blue Robin” Three wives in a single season Cousins of the Nightingale Woodlands ring with flutelike music The Mockingbird is a world-famous vocalist Swallows of a feather flock together What’s in a name? Townsend’s Solitaire (Myadestes townsendi) Varied Thrush (Ixoreus naevius) Olive-backed Thrush (Hylocichla ustulata swainsoni) Wood Thrush (Hylocichla mustelina) Hermit Thrush (Hylocichla guttata) Veery (Hylocichla fuscescens fuscescens) Eastern Bluebird (Sialia sialis sialis) Western Bluebird (Sialia mexicana) Mountain Bluebird (Sialia currucoides) Catbird (Dumetella carolinensis) Sage Thrasher (Oreoscoptes montanus) Mockingbird (Mimus polyglottos) Curve-billed Thrasher (Toxostoma curvirostre) Brown Thrasher (Toxostoma rufum) Bendire’s Thrasher (Toxostoma bendirei) California Thrasher (Toxostoma redivivum redivivum) Crissal Thrasher (Toxostoma dorsale dorsale) Leconte’s Thrasher (Toxostoma lecontei lecontei) Purple Martin (Progne subis) Northern Cliff Swallow (Petrochelidon albifrons albifrons) Barn Swallow (Hirundo erhthrogaster) Violet-green Swallow (Tachycineta thalassina lepida) Tree Swallow (Iridoprocne bicolor) Bank Swallow (Riparia Riparia Riparia) American Pipit (Anthus spinoletta spinoletta) Sprague’s Pipit (Anthus spraguei) Horned Lark (Otocoris alpestris)