| Cover photo: A Screech-Owl peers down from a perch at the McGill Bird Observatory in the Stoneycroft Wildlife Area, Ste-Anne-de-
Bellevue, Quebec. Photographed 11 October 2004 by Marcel Gahbauer; e-mail: marcel@migrationresearch.org. See article
by Richards, Mineau, Bird,Wery, Larivée and Duffe, pp. 289–297. [full-size view] |
| Articles |
An ethogram developed on captive eastern Coyotes, Canis latrans
JONATHAN G. WAY, DEAN-LORENZ M. SZUMYLO, and ERIC G. STRAUSS Abstract [PDF] | 263 |
First observations of an Eastern Screech-Owl, Megascops asio, population in an apple-producing
region of southern Quebec NGAIO L. RICHARDS, PIERRE MINEAU, DAVID M. BIRD,
PIERRE WERY, JACQUES LARIVÉE, and JASON DUFFE Abstract [PDF] | 289 |
Effects of timber harvesting and plantation development on cavity-nestng birds in New Brunswick
STEPHEN J. WOODLEY, GREG JOHNSON, BILL FREEDMAN, and DAVID A. KIRK Abstract [PDF] | 298 |
Recent invasion, current status, and invasion pathway of European Common Reed,
Phragmites australis subspecies australis, in the southern Ottawa District
PAUL M. CATLING and SUSAN CARBYN Abstract [PDF] | 307 |
Pack size of wolves, Canis lupus, on caribou, Rangifer tarandus, winter ranges in
westcentral Alberta GERALD W. KUZYK, JEFF KNETEMAN, and FIONA K.A. SCHMIEGELOW Abstract [PDF] | 313 |
Bur Buttercup, Ranunculus testiculatus, new to eastern Canada
MICHAEL J. OLDHAM, CLIVE E. GOODWIN, and SEAN BLANEY Abstract [PDF] | 319 |
Assessment of effects of an oil pipeline on Caribou, Rangifer tarandus granti, use of
riparian habitats in arctic Alaska, 2001-2003 LYNN E. NOEL, MATTHEW K. BUTCHER,
MATTHEW A. CRONIN, and BILL STREEVER Abstract [PDF] | 323 |
First records of the Southern Red-backed Vole, Myodes gapperi, in the Yukon
THOMAS S. JUNG, ANY M. RUNCK, DAVID W. NAGORSEN, BRIAN G. SLOUGH, and TODD POWELL Abstract [PDF] | 331 |
A conservation evaluation of Smooth Goosefoot, Chenopodium subglabrum (Chenopodiaceae),
in Canada DIANA BIZECKI ROBSON Abstract [PDF] | 335 |
Summer movements and impact of individual Striped Skunks, Mephitis mephitis, on duck nests in
Saskatchewan SERGE LARIVIÈRE, LYLE R. WALTON, and FRANÇOIS MESSIER Abstract [PDF] | 342 |
Life history phenology and sediment size association of the dragonfly Cordulegaster dorsalis
(Odonata: Cordulegastridae) in an emphemeral habitat in southwestern British Columbia
LAURIE B. MARCZAK, JOHN RICHARDSON, and MARIE-CLAIRE CLASSEN Abstract [PDF] | 347 |
An analysis of the vascular flora of Annapolis heathlands
S. CARBYN, P.M. CATLING, S.P. VANDER KLOET, and S. BASQUILL Abstract [PDF] | 351 |
Pacific Hagfish, Eptatretus stoutii, Spotted Ratfish, Hydrolagus colliei, and scavenger activity
on tethered carrion in subtidal benthic communities off western Vancouver Island
SARAH DAVIES, ALI GRIFFITHS, and T.E. REIMCHEN Abstract [PDF] | 363 |
| Notes |
A new record size wolf, Canis lupus, pack for Ontario LIV S. VORS and PHILIP L. WILSON Abstract [PDF] | 367 |
| Tribute |
A tribute to Nicholas Stephen Novakowski 1925-2004 JOSEPH E. BRYANT Full article [PDF; 3.7 MB] | 370 |
| Book Reviews [PDF] |
| ZOOLOGY: The Birder’s Companion Birds of the Dominican Republic and Haiti Atlas of Bird
Migration: Tracing the Great Journeys of the World’s Birds Handbook of the Birds of the World
Volume II Old World Flycatchers to Old World Warblers Conservation of the Black-tailed Prairie
Dog: Saving North America’s Western Grasslands Migrating Raptors of the Word: Their Ecology
and Conservation Land Snails of British Columbia Songbird Journeys: Four Seasons in the Lives
of Migrating Birds | 379 |
| BOTANY: Wildflowers of the Rocky Mountains Plants of Alberta | 386 |
| MISCELLANEOUS: Pilgrimage to Vallombrosa: From Vermont to Italy in the Footsteps of George Perkins
Marsh Where to Watch Birds:World Cities Marshes: The Disappearing Edens | 387 |
| NEW TITLES | 390 |
| News and Comment [PDF] |
| Marine Turtle Newsletter 113 — The Boreal Dip Net/L’Epuisette Borale January 2006 | 392 |
| Minutes of the 127th Annual Business Meeting of The Ottawa Field-Naturalists’ Club
Tuesday 12 January 2006 | 393 |
| Advice to Contributors | 402 |