This is a Woodbridge Farm Books publication. Only 200 of these hand-bound, limited-edition chapbooks will be published.
The Birders on Birds series offers personal essays by notable bird watchers. Proceeds from the sale of each chapbook is shared with PIBO, to aid the organization in its ongoing mission to study and record the birds on Pelee Island, and through local, national, and international outreach to make Pelee Island a unique and vital part of the international effort to protect wild and migratory birds.
About Dan Mennill
Dan Mennill is a Professor of Ornithology at the University of Windsor. He studies acoustic communication in wild animals, especially the songs of birds. He runs the Mennill Sound Analysis Laboratory where he and his research team use a field-based approach to study animals in Canada, France, USA, Mexico, Costa Rica, and Colombia. Dan has helped pioneer many new playback and recording technologies for bio-acoustic field studies. He has published more than 180 papers in scientific journals and supervised more than 40 graduate students and postdoctoral researchers. He is a Fellow of the American Ornithological Society and a lifetime member of the Society of Canadian Ornithologists and the Animal Behaviour Society. Dan lives in Lasalle, Ontario, with his wife, professor and artist Stéphanie Doucet, and their two children.
