This document contains a wealth of resources about birds and plants in Northumberland County, Ontario, Canada. The bird data are particularly extensive. The County is located roughly half way along the north shore of Lake Ontario, and is rich in natural features, ranging from bird colonies to rare tracts of native grassland and savannah.


This document and website were prepared by Clive Goodwin and Steven Furino. Clive Goodwin was responsible for collecting and validating bird sightings, and the text, together with the text on the plants. Steven Furino authored the software which managed the data and created the bird charts. Co-authors David Bree provided the section on butterflies and Colin Jones that on dragonflies.


The book below is a large pdf file (155 MB). Download it by (for PC) right clicking and choosing "Save as" or (for Mac) by Option-clicking (i.e. holding the option key down while clicking on the link). Individual sections of the book can then be accessed from page one, and you can search for any species, or adjust the text size.

The Birds of Northumberland County, Ontario

With lists of Butterflies and Dragonflies, and a listing of Vascular Plants showing preliminary distribution and abundance data

The Book

  1. •Birds of Northumberland County


Related Links

  1. •Charts by species

  2. •Checklist of the Birds of Northumberland

  3. •Bird Finding Guide

  4. •Seasonal Summaries

  5. •Gleanings

  6. •Links

  7. •Wings

  8. •Contact us

Acknowledgments

Our major debt for the documents and website as a whole is to our co-authors, who helped us to greatly expand its interest and utility. Colin Jones generously allowed us to use his tabulation of the County’s dragonflies, and David Bree not only wrote the annotated list of butterflies, but supplied most of the illustrations for both sections, and was a reliable source of help and suggestions. Audrey Wilson kindly undertook to provide a valuable account of the long history of Monarch butterfly tagging in the County, and Don Davis provided an update on current tagging work at Presqu’ile. Craig Kerr of the Friends of Presqu’ile assisted willingly and enthusiastically in what finally proved to be an unsuccessful attempt to utilize older copyrighted material originally published by the Friends. Further acknowledgments for the individual sections appear separately.

The Seasons in Northumberland County (anticlockwise from upper left) Winter: Great Gray Owl. Photo Sherwood McLernon. Spring: Hepaticas. Photo Clive Goodwin; Summer: female American Redstart on nest. Photo Bill and Anita Edmunds; Fall: Monarch on New England Aster. Photo Clive Goodwin. Copyright for the photographs in this website belongs solely to the photographers. Images may not be copied, downloaded, or used in any way without the expressed, written permission of the photographer.