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Birds of British Columbia: Passerines : Flycatchers Through Vireos [Hardcover]

R. Wayne Campbell (Author), Neil K. Dawe (Author), Ian McTaggart-Cowan (Author), John M. Cooper (Author), Gary W. Kaiser (Author), Michael C. E. McNall (Author), G. E. John Smith (Author)
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March 1997 Birds of British Columbia (Book 3)

British Columbia has one of the richest assemblages of bird species in the world. The four volumes of The Birds of British Columbia provide unprecedented coverage of this region’s birds, presenting a wealth of information on the ornithological history, habitat, breeding habits, migratory movements, seasonality, and distribution patterns of each of the 472 species of birds.

This third volume, covering the first half of the passerines, builds on the authoritative format of the previous bestselling volumes. It contains 89 species, including common ones such as swallows, jays, crows, wrens, thrushes, and starlings. The text is supported by hundreds of full-colour pictures, including unique habitat photographs, detailed distribution maps, and beautiful illustrations of the birds, their nests, eggs, and young.

The Birds of British Columbia is a complete reference work for bird-watchers, ornithologists, and naturalists who want in-depth information on the province’s regularly occurring and rare birds.


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The hefty hardcover tome, which covers 91 species of passerines (perching birds) is crammed with information in text, graphs, charts and full-colour photos. The third in a series of four volumes on the province's avian life, the extensively researched reference work is a book to be studied and perused and admired for its thorough treatment of bird life.
– Anne Sullivan, Vancouver Courier

About the Author

R. Wayne Campbell Senior Research Scientist (Retired) British Columbia Wildlife Branch Director, WBT Wildlife Data Centre Wild Bird Trust of British Columbia Neil K. Dawe Senior Wildlife Technician Canadian Wildlife Service Ian McTaggart-Cowan Dean Emeritus (Graduate Studies) University of British Columbia John M. Cooper Wildlife Biologist Manning, Cooper and Associates Gary W. Kaiser Marine Bird Ecologist (Retired) Canadian Wildlife Service Andrew C. Stewart Wildlife Habitat Specialist British Columbia Resources Inventory Branch Michael C.E. McNall Ornithology Collections Manager Royal British Columbia Museum

Product Details

  • Hardcover: 693 pages
  • Publisher: Univ of British Columbia Pr (March 1997)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0774805722
  • ISBN-13: 978-0774805728
  • Product Dimensions: 14.5 x 9.7 x 2.1 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,831,159 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2.0 out of 5 stars TOO MUCH, October 22, 2005
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This is actually a review of the entire four volume set that is The Birds of British Columbia. Clearly not restrained by limitations on space, the authors drone on endlessly. Finding useful information is like sifting river sand for gold flakes. It's there but requires a lot of work to accumulate. There are innumerable graphs, but these are just information blotted onto the pages without interpretation. One could easily get the idea that Mountain Bluebirds, for instance, are nearly as common on the south coast (where rare) as the interior (where common). Why? Because the graphs show total number of sightings, not adjusted for the overall effort (which is much higher in the populous areas around Vancouver and Victoria. The noteworthy sighting section often contains many sightings that leave me scratching my head as to why they are noteworthy. Pictures often seem included just because an author happened to have them on hand. There are lots of photos of bluebirds or phoebes nesting in manmade sites yet precious few photos of the birds themselves.

Rather than presenting every bit of data obtained, relatively unedited and undeciphered, the authors should have condensed the information into compact statements that focus on important points of status and distribution in British Columbia. The reader is left to do so on his/her own, which is at times is frankly impossible. Making all of this more onerous is the enormous size of the 4 volumes and the concurrent enormous expense.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A must for every BC birdwatcher, May 28, 2009
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If you can afford this wonderful book and you already own the previous three in this series, it's a must have.
Even if you've just started with a cheap small bird book and you've not yet reached the obsessive stage, this will undoubtedly show you the way, if not drive you all the way there. It provides everything you'll want to know about BC birds, and is very hard to put down, even though it's HUGE and heavy.
My husband had bought the first three in the series as soon as they were published, and now he has died, I was compelled to complete the set just for his sake. But I'm very glad I did because it has opened a new world for me.
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