Birding with Yeats: A Mother's Memoir (27 page)
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Authors: Lynn Thomson
LIST OF BIRDS
FURTHER RESOURCES
BOOKS
Bull, John L., and John Farron, Jr.
Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Birds: Eastern Region
. New York: Knopf, 1977.
Gibson, Graeme.
The Bedside Book of Birds: An Avian Miscellany.
Toronto: Doubleday, 2005.
Howell, Steve N. G. and Jon Dunn.
Gulls of the Americas.
Peterson Field Guides. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2007.
Hughes, Janice M.
ROM Field Guide to Birds of Ontario
. Toronto: Royal Ontario Museum and McClelland & Steward, 2001.
Matthiessen, Peter.
The Snow Leopard
. New York: Viking, 1978.
National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America.
Third Edition. Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society, 1999.
Sibley, David Allen.
The Sibley Guide to Birds
. New York: Knopf, 2000.
WEBSITES
Amherst Island:
www.amherstisland.on.ca
The Cornell Lab of Ornithology:
www.allaboutbirds.org
Nature Conservancy of Canada:
www.natureconservancy.ca
Pelee Island:
www.pelee.org
Point Pelee National Park:
www.pc.gc.ca/pn-np/on/pelee/index.aspx
Wye Marsh:
http://www.wyemarsh.com
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
BIRDING WITH YEATS WOULD
not exist without the brilliant vision of Sarah MacLachlan at House of Anansi Press. It was her idea, and I thank her very much for having it and then handing it over to Janie Yoon, my friend and editor. Janie brought the idea to me and now it is a book. Sometimes it feels like that — Janie waved her magic wand and helped me to create a book out of nothing but little stories. But mostly it was hard work and I thank Janie for believing I could write this book and for helping me do it.
Thanks go to everyone else at Anansi, too, for being their wonderful, exuberant selves. A book is a team effort and Anansi is a great team. Special thanks to Alysia Shewchuk for her lovely jacket and map designs, and to Laura Repas, my publicist, for her dedication.
Thank you to Barbara Stoneham for her photographs and our day in the forest; to Marion Hebb, my lawyer and (surprise!) distant cousin; to Melanie Little in her copy-editor’s hat
; to Sharon Singer and all the women over all the years of The Moving Pen.
Thank you to my family, without whom there would be no stories, and especially to Yeats and to Ben.
Lynn Thomson
Toronto, December
2013
LYNN THOMSON is a bookseller in Toronto, Canada.
Birding with Yeats
is her first book.
ABOUT THE PUBLISHER
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Black-capped Chickadee
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Downy Woodpecker
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American Robin
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Blackburnian Warbler
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House Wren
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