BIRD BOOKS
FIELD GUIDES
A Field Guide to Birds’ Nests. The Peterson Field Guide Series, No. 21. H.H. Harrison. 1975. Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston. 257 pp.
A Field Guide to the Birds. Fourth Edition. The Peterson Field Guide Series, No. 1. R.T. Peterson. 1980. Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston. 384 pp.
Birds of North America. A Golden Field Guide to Field Identification. C.S. Robbins, B. Bruun and H.S. Zim. 1966. Golden Press, New York. 340 pp. (more recent editions are available)
Field Guide to the Birds of North America. Third Edition. 1999. National Geographic Society, Washington D.C. 480 pp.
The Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Birds Eastern Region. J. Bull and J. Farrand, Jr. 1977. Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., New York. 775 pp. (more recent editions are available)
The Sibley Guide to Birds. National Audubon Society. D.A. Sibley. 2000. Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., New York. 544 pp. (although this book contains more plumage variations per species, it is in a larger format and heavier than the above-listed guides, so is not as convenient for field use)
Birds of New Brunswick: An Annotated List, Christie David, the New Brunswick Museum, Saint John, NB, 2004. cost $ 15
CHECKLISTS
Birds of the Miramichi. 2007. Miramichi Naturalists’ Club.
available on this website:
http://www.miramichinaturalistsclub.ca/Miramichi%20Birds.htm
New Brunswick Bird Checklist. 1998. New Brunswick Federation of Naturalists, Saint John. 6 pp. (fold-out)
New Brunswick Birds. Oiseaux du Nouveau-Brunswick. 2006. New Brunswick Bird
Records Committee. available online at:
http://www3.nbnet.nb.ca/maryspt/BRC/NBBirds.html
GENERAL INFORMATION
A Natural History of American Birds of Eastern and Central North America. E.H. Forbush and J.B. May. 1955. Bramhall House, New York. 552 pp.
Atlas of Breeding Birds of the Maritime Provinces. A.J. Erskine. 1992. Nimbus Publishing Limited and the Nova Scotia Museum, Halifax. 270 pp. [The field work for a second Atlas is being conducted from 2006 – 2010, so this newer Atlas should be published in 2012]
Atlas of Wintering North American Birds An Analysis of Christmas Bird Count Data. T. Root. 1988. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago. 312 pp..
The Birds of Canada. Revised Edition. W.E. Godfrey. 1986. National Museums of Canada, Ottawa. 595 pp.
The Birds of New Brunswick. Monographic Series No. 7. Second Edition. W.A. Squires. 1976. The New Brunswick Museum, Saint John. 221 pp.
Silence of the Songbirds. Bridget Stutchbury. 2007. How we are losing the world´s songbirds and what we can do to save them.
FLORA
Flora
of New Brunswick, Hinds Harold R., the University of New Brunswick, 2004,
cost $ 50