Bird References

• Godfrey, W.E. 1986. The birds of Canada. Revised Edition. National Museums of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario.
  
  
• National Geographic Society. 1987. Field guide to the birds of North America. Second Edition. National Geographic Society, Washington, D.C.
  
  
• Peterson, R.T. 1990. Peterson Field Guides, Western Birds. Third Edition. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, Massachusetts.
  
  
• Robbins, C.S., B. Brun, and H.S. Zim. 1983. A guide to field identification: birds of North America. Expanded, revised edition. Golden Books Publishing Co., Inc., Racine, Wisconsin.
  
  
• Sirois, J. 1994. The birds of Great Slave Lake, Northwest Territories, Canada. Ecology North, Yellowknife, NT. (Available from Ecology North $3.25)
  
  
• Sirois, J., M.A. Fournier and M.F. Kay. 1995. The colonial waterbirds of Great Slave Lake, Northwest Territories: an annotated atlas. Occasional Paper No. 89, Canadian Wildlife Service, Yellowknife, NT.
  
  
• Sirois, J., and D. McRae. 1996. The birds of the Northwest Territories, Canada. Canadian Wildlife Service, Yellowknife, NT.
  
  

For more information, contact:

Canadian Wildlife Service
Environment Canada
Suite 301, 5204 50th Ave
Yellowknife, NT X1A 1E2
Tel: (867) 669-4700

Text: Janice Roosdahl

Illustrations: Autumn Downey