Northern bobwhite (Colinus virginianus) COSEWIC status report: chapter 15

Biographical Summary of Report Writers

Ross James is a Departmental Associate and former Curator of Ornithology at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, Ontario. He studied the foraging behaviour of vireos in southern Ontario, and the ecological and behavioural relationships of Blue-headed and Yellow-throated Vireos for master’s and doctoral research at the University of Toronto. He has also conducted bird population studies in boreal forest and southern woodlands and wetlands. He is interested in the status and distribution of birds in Ontario, authoring an Annotated checklist of Ontario Birds, and coauthoring two volumes on the Breeding Birds of Ontario. He was a committee member for and a contributor to the Atlas of Breeding Birds of Ontario, and a coauthor of Ontario Birds at Risk. He is an author of two accounts for the Birds of North America, and has published more than 80 papers on birds. He spent more than a decade as chair and co-chair of the Birds Subcommittee of COSEWIC. In this capacity he was familiar with previous status reports and the status of this species. 

Richard J. Cannings has a B.Sc. in Zoology from the University of British Columbia and an M.Sc. in Biology from the Memorial University of Newfoundland. He was Assistant Curator of the Cowan Vertebrate Museum at the University of British Columbia for 15 years, and is now a consulting biologist living in the Okanagan Valley. He works part-time for Bird Studies Canada, coordinating the Christmas Bird Count across the country and other bird monitoring programs in British Columbia.  Although his primary focus is on bird biology, he has a broad interest in natural history and coauthored “British Columbia: A Natural History” with his brother Sydney. He has been co-chair of the Birds Specialist Subcommittee of COSEWIC since 2001.

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