Whose Bird?: Common Bird Names and the People They Commemorate
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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...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:030010359X
ISBN13:9780300103595
Release Date:January 2004
Publisher:Yale University Press
Length:402 Pages
Weight:1.52 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 6.2" x 9.3"
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