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9780300103595

Whose Bird? : Common Bird Names and the People They Commemorate

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  • ISBN13:

    9780300103595

  • ISBN10:

    030010359X

  • Format: Trade Paper
  • Copyright: 2004-01-11
  • Publisher: Yale University Press

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Summary

Is Bonaparte's Gull named after Napoleon Bonaparte? Is the Pallas' Sandgrouse named for the same individual as the Pallas' Warbler? This entertaining book provides for the first time a mini-biography of every person after whom a bird has been named in the English vernacular---some 1,400 individuals. Featuring 150 illustrations, Whose Bird? is arranged in the style of an encyclopedia with entries indexed both by relevant individual and by bird. The book concentrates on the people---heroes, romantics, fanatics

Table of Contents

Introduction 6(5)
In the beginning
6(1)
Who is it for?
6(1)
How to use this book
7(1)
What's in a name?
7(4)
How to get a bird named after you 11(6)
Discovery
11(1)
Identity
12(1)
Description
13(1)
Other paths to glory
14(1)
What's left?
15(2)
Biographies: A to Z 17(362)
Bibliography 379(2)
Appendix: List of birds by scientific name 381

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