| Cover photo: A Red-winged Blackbird nest with three blackbird eggs and five Brown-headed Cowbird eggs. The nest was found in a
Conservation Reserve Program grassland in Day County, South Dakota. Photographed on 16 June 2005 by Lawrence D.
Igl. See article on cowbird parasitism by Igl and Johnson, pages 239-255. [full-size view] |
| Articles |
Brown-headed Cowbird, Molothrus ater, parasitism and abundance in the Northern Great Plains LAWRENCE D. IGL and DOUGLAS H. JOHNSON Abstract [PDF] | 239 |
Wolf, Canis lupus, behavior in areas of frequent human activity
ELLEN HEILHECKER, RICHARD P. THIEL, and WAYNE HALL, JR. Abstract [PDF] | 256 |
Influence of gender and den type on home range shape for Striped Skunks, Mephitus mephitis, in Saskatchewan SERGE LARIVIERE, DAVID HOWERTER, and FRANCOIS MESSIER Abstract [PDF] | 261 |
Road-kill of mammals in Nova Scotia DAVID FUDGE, BILL FREEDMAN, MICHAEL CROWELL, TONY NETTE, and VINCE POWER Abstract [PDF] | 265 |
Third census of seabird populations of the Gaspé Peninsula, Quebec, 2002
RICHARD COTER and JEAN-FRANCOIS RAIL Abstract [PDF] | 274 |
Sixteenth census of seabird populations in the sancturaries of the North Shore of the Gulf of the
St. Lawrence, 2005 JEAN-FRANCOIS RAIL and RICHARD COTER Abstract [PDF] | 287 |
Discovery of a possibly relict outbreeding morphotype of Sparrow’s-egg Lady’s-slipper Orchid,
Cypripedium passerinum, in southwestern Yukon
PAUL M. CATLING and BRUCE A. BENNETT Abstract [PDF] | 295 |
Twenty-four hour activity budgets of Mule Deer, Odocoileus hemionus, in the aspen parkland
of eastcentral Alberta G.W. KUZYK and R.J. HUDSON Abstract [PDF] | 299 |
Cavity nest materials of Northern Flying Squirrels, Glaucomys sabrinus, and North American
Red Squirrels, Tamiascius hudsonicus, in a secondary harwood forest of southern Ontario JESE E.H. PATTERSON, STEPHEN J. PATTERSON, and JAY R. MALCOLM Abstract [PDF] | 303 |
Depredation of Common Eider, Somateria mollissima, nests on a central Beaufort Sea barrier
island: A case where no one wins JOHN A. REED, DEBORAH L. LACROIX, and PAUL L. FLINT Abstract [PDF] | 308 |
Management implications of molt migration by Atlantic Flyway resident population Canada
Geese, Branta canadensis SUSAN E. SHEAFFER, RICHARD A. MALECKI,
BRYAN L. SWIFT, JOHN DUNN, and KIM SCRIBNER Abstract [PDF] | 313 |
Recovery of DNA from footprints in the snow LOVE DALEN, ANDERS GOTHERSTROM, THOMAS MEIJER, and BETH SHAPIRO Abstract [PDF] | 321 |
| Notes |
A River Otter’s, Lontra cadadensis, capture of a Double-crested Cormorant, Phalacrocorax auritus,
in British Columbia’s Gulf Island waters MICHAEL H.H. PRICE and CLARE E. ARIES Abstract [PDF] | 325 |
Winter occurrences of Ivory Gulls, Pagophila eburnea, in inland Labrador
TONY E. CHUBBS and FRANK R. PHILLIPS Abstract [PDF] | 327 |
Northern Goshawk, Accipiter gentilis, exploits a Beagle Hound, Canis familiaris, as a "beater" to
catch a Snowshoe Hare, Lepus americanus JOHN T. NEVILLE Abstract [PDF] | 329 |
Giant Beaver, Castoroides ohioensis, remains in Canada and an overlooked report from Ontario C. RICHARD HARINGTON Abstract [PDF] | 330 |
A late born White-tailed Deer, Odocoileus virginianus, in southcentral Wisconsin CHRISTOPHER N. JACQUES, WILLIAM E. ISHMAEL, TIMOTHY R. VAN DEELEN, and ROBERT E. ROLLEY Abstract [PDF] | 333 |
| Book Reviews [PDF] |
| ZOOLOGY: Evolution and Biogeography of Australian Vertebrates — A Wildkife Guide to Chile —
Ecology & Evolution in the Tropics: A Herpetological Perspective — Fossil Ecosystens of North
America: A Guide to the Sites and Their Extraordinary Biotas — Headless Males Make Great Lovers
— State of North America’s Birds of Prey — Owls of the United States and Canada: A Complete Guide
to Their Biology and Benavior — Owls of North America — The Tree of Life: A Phylogenetic
Classification — Biology of the Snapping Turtle (Chelydra serpentina) — Wildlife of North America:
A Naturalist’s Lifelist | 336 |
| BOTANY: Grasses of Colorado — The Macrolichens of New England — Wild Plants of Eastern Canada | 344 |
| MISCELLANEOUS: Sods, Soil, and Spades: The Acadians at Grand Pre and their Dykeland Legacy | 347 |
| NEW TITLES | 347 |
| News and Comment |
| Marine Turtle Newsletter (117) July 2007 — The Boreal Dip Net/L’epuosette boreal 11(2) Summer 2007
— Alliance of Natural History Museums of Canada Annual Meeting and Awards | 349 |
| Minutes of the 128th Annual Business Meeting of The Ottawa Field-Naturalists’ Club Tuesday
9 January 2007 | 350 |
| Advice to Contributors | 358 |
| Mailing date: 31 December 2008 |