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Article content One of the more interesting waterfowl species that rarely visits our area in the spring is the Canvasback Duck. While not rare for western Canada or the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Region, it is quite scarce for this area. In fact, there has been only a few sightings of this duck in Renfrew County during the last 30 years. Normally, these ducks travel up the west coast and the prairies to their breeding grounds in the north. The last known sighting of this duck in Renfrew County was in April 1997, observed by the late Chris Michener. The Canvasback Duck (Aytha Vallisneria) is a somewhat large duck being 22 inches in length and having a wingspan of 34 inches. The male Canvasback has a bleached back and underparts, and a black breast and tail. The head and neck are the same reddish colour as the Redhead Duck but has a different shape: flat and long. The bill is dark and slopes upward into the flat face. The female has a dull brown head and neck with pale bac ....
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The Life and Work of Robert Alexander Gilbert: Empowering New Insights through Digitization and Transcription of Archival Materials This post is part of a series from the Ernst Mayr Library exploring the digitization and transcription of ornithologist William Brewster’s archival materials and the insights and scholarship made possible thanks to this work. Robert A. Gilbert, far right, at William Brewster’s cabin at Pine Point, Umbagog Lake, Maine. From the collection of the Museum of American Bird Art, Massachusetts Audubon Society and reproduced with their permission. Robert Alexander Gilbert (1870-1942) was a Black photographer interested in ornithology and chemistry who worked for ornithologist William Brewster from the mid 1890s until Brewster’s death in 1919 and at various tasks around the Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ) at Harvard University beyond 1919. He was an Associate of the American Ornithologists’ Union. ....