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Dalhousie University Archives Canada File Birds
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Photographs of Rock ptarmigan at Fiona Lake, Somerset Island

File contains 37 photographs taken by Bill Freedman at Fiona Lake, Somerset Island, in 1979. Photographs showRock ptarmigan perched on rocky outcroppings. One photo also shows the Fiona Lake camp, and another showing researcher Joseph Svoboda examining lichen.

Photographs of birds, mammals, insects, and amphibians

File contains 333 photographic slides taken by Bill Freedman in Florida, the Northwest Territories, Newfoundland, and Ontario between 1972 and 1991. Photographs show birds, large Arctic land mammals, insects, snakes and amphibians.

Photographs of birds around Tuktoyaktuk, Northwest Territories

File contains 27 photographs taken by Bill Freedman during two visits to Tuktoyaktuk, Northwest Territories, in 1973 and 1974. Photographs show birds in the area around Tuktoyaktuk, including Semipalmated plover, Whimbrel, Stilt sandpipers, Common eider, and Lapland longspur.

Photographs of Great Grey, Snowy, and Barred owls

File contains 21 photographs taken by Bill Freedman between 1976 and 1979. Photographs show Great Grey owls at Ajax, Ontario, Snowy owls at Smoking Hills, Northwest Territories, and Barred owls at Algonquin Park.

Selected studies of forestry and bird communities in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick : [manuscript and correspondence]

File contains the manuscript written by Freedman and Greg Johnson for the monograph "Biology and conservation of forest birds", Society of Cananadian Ornithologists Special Publication no. 1 (edited by A.W. Diamond and D.N. Nettleship). File also contains reviewer-edited drafts, correspondence, and proceedings itinerary.

Use of lakes by black duck broods in relation to biological, chemical, and physical features : [manuscript and other materials]

File contains the manuscript and two draft manuscripts written by Freedman, with Cynthia A. Staicer, Diane Srivastava, Nancy Dowd, Jennifer Kilgar, Jill Hayden, Fred Payne, and Tom Pollock, for Hydrobiologia, volumes 279-280. File also contains reviewer comments, Previous drafts were titled "Characteristics of Nova Scotian lakes in relation to their use by black duck broods". The report surveys the characteristics of duck populations at 32 freshwater lakes in central and western Nova Scotia.

Effects of the herbicide 2,4,5-T on the habitat and abundance of breeding birds and small mammals of a conifer clearcut in Nova Scotia : [manuscript and correspondence]

File contains the manuscript written by Freedman with A.M. Poirier, R. Morash, and F. Scott, for Canadian Field-Naturalist, volume 102, number 1. File also contains correspondence and reviewer comments, and deal with a location near Stewiacke, Nova Scotia.

Ecology of a high Arctic lowland oasis, Alexandra Fjord (78 53'N, 75 65'W), Ellesmere Island, N.W.T., Canada : 1980 and 1981 progress reports : [manuscript]

File contains the manuscript reports edited by Freedman and Josef Svoboda, documenting the 1980 and 1981 progress of the Alexandra Fjord Lowland Ecosystem Study. Freedman contributes to two articles in the 1980 report: "Ecology of a high arctic lowland oasis on Ellesmere Island. An overview" (with J. Svoboda) and "Populations of breeding birds" (with J. Svoboda), and five articles in the 1981 report: "Seed banks and seedling occurrence in a high arctic oasis" (with Nick Hill, Josef Svoboda, and Greg Henry), "Populations of breeding birds at Alexandra Fiord, compared with other high arctic localities" (with Josef Svoboda), "Regional survey of plant communities" (with Josef Svoboda), "Birds of Alexandra Fiord and vicinity", and "Mammals of Alexandra Fiord and vicinity".

McNab's Island Christmas bird counts

File contains handwritten and typed research notes compiled by Freedman and others, documenting bird counts at McNab's Island, Halifax County, Nova Scotia, between the years 1995 and 2012. File also contains correspondence.