A timberline sparrow nest with 2 eggs at Cairn Pass in Jasper National Park. (Family: emberizidae; trinomial name: spizella breweri taverneri) Note: "According to author and historian Don Beers, despite the fact that the official name is "Southesk Pass," for decades everyone in Jasper Park has called it Cairn Pass."-- http://www.peakfinder.com

In Collection:

• Ian McTaggart Cowan Collection

Creator

• McTaggart-Cowan, Ian, 1910-2010

Subject

• Birds--Ecology
• Brewer's sparrow
• Birds
• Birds--Eggs
• Birds--Habitat
• Sparrows
• Birds--Nests

Language

• eng

Identifier

• COWAN_PH_397; Cowan_PN_678; Cowan B & W Photographs - Species and Locations - Box 4

Date created

• July 1944

Resource type

• Still Image

Rights statement

• In Copyright - Educational Use Permitted

Extent

• 1 photograph : black and white

Alternative title

• Brewer's sparrow taverneri subspecies
• Nest and eggs of timberline sparrow

Geographic Coverage

• Alberta--Mount Southesk Pass
• Alberta--Jasper

Coordinates

• 52.73334, -117.13561
• 52.98333, -118.10238

Physical Repository

• University of Victoria (B.C.). Library

Collection

• Ian McTaggart Cowan Collection

Provider

• University of Victoria (B.C.). Library

Sponsor

• Digitization undertaken with the support of Ann Schau.

Genre

• black-and-white photographs
• photographs

Fonds title

• Ian McTaggart Cowan Collection

Fonds identifier

• AR514

Technical note

• Digitized by Briony Penn. Migration metadata by KD.

Rights

• Contact UVic Special Collections and University Archives for access to the original resource and for reproduction requests. This material is made available on this site for research and private study only.

DOI

•  https://doi.org/10.58066/tqz5-ph93

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