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Written by Clarence Stevens of Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. Clarence's company Natural Wonders conducts field trips and classroom sessions in Nova Scotia, on birds and other natural history topics. Contact him at 902-835-0092.
Thanks to Randy Lauff of St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, Nova Scotia for his helpful comments and the note on structural colour.
Designed by Michael Graham, Halifax, Nova Scotia. Michael has done most of the design for the Museum of Natural History site.
Paintings by Roger Tory Peterson and John A. Crosby, taken from The Birds of Nova Scotia, a Nova Scotia Museum publication. The Peterson paintings are part of the collection of the Newfoundland Museum and are reproduced with their kind permission. Photographs are from the collection of the Nova Scotia Museum of Natural History and other contributors.
Thanks to subscribers to NatureNB and NatureNS for test-driving the site for us.
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