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Nature Birdwatching Guides

Birds of the Cottage Country

by (author) William C. Mansell

illustrated by William Blair Mansell & Sheila Smith

Publisher
Dundurn Press
Initial publish date
Jun 1985
Category
Birdwatching Guides, Birds, General
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780920469026
    Publish Date
    Jun 1985
    List Price
    $7.95
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781459718319
    Publish Date
    Jun 1985
    List Price
    $6.99

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Description

Birds of the Cottage Country is a virtual storybook account of the author’s personalized observations throughout Ontario’s cottage playground. It clearly illustrates the downright fun, vast beauty, and consuming involvement of bird watching – even for the most skeptical of laymen.

Bill Mansell’s daily experiences at birding, spread over a period of sixty-five years, result in such a familiarity with his subject that the reader is drawn as a participant into a delicately beautiful intimacy with avian nature.

Birds of the Cottage Country will be read by some solely for its humour and humanistic style; yet serious birdwatchers will also find it a refreshingly new guide and reference tool.

About the authors

Bill Mansell's daily experiences at birding, spread over a period of sixty-five years, result in such a familiarity with his subject that the reader is drawn as a participant into a delicately beautiful intimacy with avian nature.

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