Glen Chilton

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 You’d 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 124:962–968. Chilton G, Fuller E (2005). Views from the side of the bird: Users' perspectives on bird collections. Zoologische Mededelingen 79(3):131–136. Chilton G (2004). John James Audubon in the land that God forgot. Isotope 2(2):14–29. Chilton G, Wiebe MO, Handford P (2002). Large-scale geographic variation in songs of Gambel's White-crowned Sparrows. Condor 104:378–386. Chilton G (2002). Song stereoptypy and cultural evolution in an isolated population of Montane White-crowned Sparrows, Zonotrichia leucophrys oriantha. Bird Behavior 15:53–63. Chilton G, Vonhoff MJ, Peterson BV, and Wilson N (2000). Ectoparasitic insects of bats in British Columbia, Canada. Journal of Parasitology 86:191–192. Chilton G, Lein MR (1996). Long-term changes in songs and song dialect boundaries of Pudget Sound White-crowned sparrows. Condor 98:567–580. Chilton G, Galloway TD (1995). Fleas (Siphonaptera: Ceratophyllidae) from nests of White-crowned sparrows (Zonotrichia leucophrys) in southwestern Alberta, Canada. Can Entomol 127:443–444. Chilton G, Lein MR, Baptista LF (1990). Mate choice by female White-crowned sparrows in a mixed-dialect population. Behav Ecol Sociobiol 27:223–227. Chilton G, Sealy SG (1987). Species' roles in mixed-species feeding flocks of seabirds. J Field Ornithol. 58:456–463.