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1. 1. Sunbury Shores Art and Nature Centre

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   Published on: 12/24/2006   Last Visited: 3/24/2007

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   Roger will have a number of number of field guides and other books, available including his own "Birds of Atlantic Canada", which will be available for purchase through Sunbury Shores and Kingsbrae Garden.
   
   Roger Burrows emigrated to Ontario in 1970 from the East Midlands of England, moving to Atlantic Canada in 1973. He worked as a naturalist, interpretive planner and avifaunal consultant for Parks Canada for nine years and as a writer-photographer for Memorial University of Newfoundland's "Decks Awash" magazine for eight years, before taking over as an owner. In 1988, he published the first of his three "Birding in Atlantic Canada" books with the final volume "Acadia" published in 1992. In 1993, Roger moved to British Columbia where he worked as an onboard naturalist on Alaska-bound ships for five summers until 2001. Following that, he was contracted by Lone Pine Publishing to write "Birds of Atlantic Canada" published in 2002 followed by four more books in that series, with co-authors, from 2003--2005. He currently has three more bird books in manuscript, covering the Pacific Northwest, Newfoundland and New Brunswick. Roger has led nature-based trips in Newfoundland and British Columbia and has presented or co-presented bird identification courses in Newfoundland, New Brunswick and British Columbia.

2. 2. Expert Tour Leaders - Birding & Naturalists

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   Published on: 4/9/2006   Last Visited: 3/6/2008

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   Roger Burrows Roger Burrows and his twin brother, Tony, were born in Northampton, England, in 1942 and enjoyed the usual sporting pursuits of football, rugby, cricket, tennis and badminton and travel to several parts of Europe until his late twenties.
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   After that, birds replaced sports as a major outdoor focus and, some 50 years later, Roger still has a passion for birdwatching and overseas travel.
   
   The second was meeting with a Canadian from Vancouver who convinced Roger that Canada offered the opportunity to widen his natural history interests. A one-month cross-country visit in the spring of 1969 confirmed this, and Roger saved up enough to emigrate to Toronto the next spring. After a frustrating year in TO, Roger decided to move to Point Pelee and enjoy its birdlife. What started out as a vacation eventually led to the first year of a science degree, marriage, work in northern Ontario and eventually Canadian citizenship and naturalist work with Parks Canada in Atlantic Canada, where his daughter, Sharon, was born in 1974.
   
   Short-term contracts led to an interesting, but ill-fated, stay at Louisbourg, Cape Breton, and eventually life as a single father in Newfoundland, where Roger established himself as one of the province's most active birders-culminating in three years at Terra Nova National Park and the first provincial bird list topping 300 bird species. A move to St. John's in 1982 coincided with the printing of Roger's first book, which evolved into the locally-published 3-volume Birding in Atlantic Canada in 1988-90. At the same time, Roger wrote and traveled for Memorial University's Decks Awash magazine, with occasional birding trips throughout Atlantic Canada. Eventually, Roger became its owner-an ill-advised move that forced a move to British Columbia in November 1993.
   
   Ever the optimist, Roger endured nearly three years of relative inactivity before becoming an onboard naturalist on Alaska cruise ships for five summers. This allowed him the relative luxury of travel without having to foot the bill and gave him enough information to put together a Northeast Pacific manuscript to take to publishers in 2001. Never one to resist a challenge, Roger left the security of cruise ship employment to take on the writing of Birds of Atlantic Canada and Birds of Oregon for Lone Pine Publishing, followed by similar books on New England, Pennsylvania and the Great Plains States for later publication. His Wildlife-Watching in Northeast Pacific Waters is still with Lone Pine and should appear in the near future. Now that he is "retired", Roger expects to resume his cross-country, marine and overseas travel, starting with a birding trip to Cuba in February 2004. Although hooked on birds, Roger is always ready to share his interest in other aspects of natural history and his love of travel.

3. 3. DreamCatcher Publishing Inc.

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   Published on: 6/17/2004   Last Visited: 3/7/2005

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   Since immigrating to Canada in 1970 from England, Roger Burrows has traveled North America extensively. While completing is B.Sc in Nova Scotia, he worked for Parks Canada in the four Atlantic provinces as a naturealist, interpretive planner and avifunal consultant. He then became a writer/photographer for, and then owner of, a rural lifestyle magazine in Newfoundland. He took part in breeding bird surveys, Maritime shorebird serveys and Christmas bird counts in all four provinces.