About Glen Chilton
Born 1958. Glen Chilton is a Canadian ornithologist, ecologist and ornithology.
Glen Dean Chilton (born in 1958 ) is a Canadian-Australian scholar and author of humorous books on adventure travel and natural history.
Chilton is also an ornithologist. His first book The Curse of the Labrador Duck was a finalist in 2010 for the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humor and the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing.
Publications
Non-fiction books Attack of the Killer Rhododendrons: My Obsessive Quest to Seek Out Alien Species (2012) HarperCollins Ltd, Toronto. (also published under the title The Last Place Youβd Look for a Wallaby (2013). University of Queensland Press. St. Lucia, Queensland, Australia. ) The Curse of the Labrador Duck: My Obsessive Quest to the Edge of Extinction (2009). HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, Toronto.
Book chapters
Chilton G (1997). Labrador Duck (Camptorhynchus labradorius). In: The Birds of North America, No. 307. (Poole A, Gills F, eds.) The Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, PA, and The American Ornithologists' Union, Washington, DC. Chilton G, Baker, MC, Barrentine CD, Cunningham MA (1995). White-crowned Sparrow (Zonotrichia leucophrys). In: The Birds of North America, No 183 (Poole A, Gill F, eds). The Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, PA, and The American Ornithologists' Union, Washington, DC.
Scientific journal publications
Chilton G, Sorenson M (2007). Genetic identification of eggs purportedly from the extinct Labrador Duck (Camptorhynchus labradorius). Auk 124:962β968. Chilton G, Fuller E (2005). Views from the side of the bird: Users' perspectives on bird collections. Zoologische Mededelingen 79(3):131β136. Chilton G (2004). John James Audubon in the land that God forgot. Isotope 2(2):14β29. Chilton G, Wiebe MO, Handford P (2002). Large-scale geographic variation in songs of Gambel's White-crowned Sparrows. Condor 104:378β386. Chilton G (2002). Song stereoptypy and cultural evolution in an isolated population of Montane White-crowned Sparrows, Zonotrichia leucophrys oriantha. Bird Behavior 15:53β63. Chilton G, Vonhoff MJ, Peterson BV, and Wilson N (2000). Ectoparasitic insects of bats in British Columbia, Canada. Journal of Parasitology 86:191β192. Chilton G, Lein MR (1996). Long-term changes in songs and song dialect boundaries of Pudget Sound White-crowned sparrows. Condor 98:567β580. Chilton G, Galloway TD (1995). Fleas (Siphonaptera: Ceratophyllidae) from nests of White-crowned sparrows (Zonotrichia leucophrys) in southwestern Alberta, Canada. Can Entomol 127:443β444. Chilton G, Lein MR, Baptista LF (1990). Mate choice by female White-crowned sparrows in a mixed-dialect population. Behav Ecol Sociobiol 27:223β227. Chilton G, Sealy SG (1987). Species' roles in mixed-species feeding flocks of seabirds. J Field Ornithol. 58:456β463.
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Who is Glen Chilton?
Canadian-Australian scholar
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Glen Chilton was born on 25 October 1958 in Toronto.
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Glen Chilton is an ornithologist, ecologist and ornithology.
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Glen Chilton is Canadian.
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