Brief Biography
Douglas Innes was born in Battleford
Saskachewan. He always had a keen
interest in nature and the outdoors,
particular birds and their behavior.
He finished a B.Ed at U.B.C.and taught
in various schools around B.C.
before retiring to Vancouver Island
in 1985. Retirement allowed Doug and
wife Marian to devote more time to
travel and research in bird behaviour.
His goal was to learn as much as he
could about birds; he might be
described as an amatateur ornithologist.
He joined the Wildlife Recording
Society of Great Britain and took a
correspondence course from Cornell
University Laboratory of Ornitholgy
in bird photography. He bought the best
cameras and sound recording equipment
he could afford and put
together slide shows of birds with
young (Red Throated Loon
Green Backed Heron, Pied Billed Grebe
and Killdeer) which
were presented at Natural History meetings
on Vancouver Island. His
major unfinished project was an ambitious
multiyear study of song
recordings of song dialect variations
in the Townsends Warbler (Dendroica
townsendi). He collected hundreds
of song recordings across southern
Vancouver Island and associated islands
offshore. Part of this study was
also to document song variation betweenTownsends
Warbler, Hermit
Warbler (Dendroica occidentalis)
and their hybrids. Some of these sound tapes
have been sent to the WBT Wildlife
Data Centre in Victoria.
Links:
Wildlife Recording
Society of Great Britain (http://www.5cbm.fsnet.co.uk/wsrs_intro.htm).
Cornell
University Laboratory of Ornitholgy
(http://birds.cornell.edu/)
Bird Photography/Sound Recording Projects:
(by Douglas and Marian Innes) (all photos (c) Marian Innes)
This initial webpage is an attempt to summarize
and archive the large collection of
photographs, sonograms and sound recordings.
The present page is a first attempt at this and
will be updated with more information
in the future. Please direct all comments and
suggestion to David (dinnes@mun.ca) or
Marian (towa@island.net) Innes.
1. Red-throated loon chick development
Doug (in an inner-tube floating blind) and Marian (sound recording) followed
the hatching
and development of a chick on a small
pond near Prince Rupert BC.
2. Pied-billed Grebe nest
3. Green-backed Heron nest and chicks
4. Night Hawk nest and chicks
5. Killdeer nest and chicks
6. Townsends Warbler
Example Sonograms:
