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Whose Bird?: Common Bird Names and the People They Commemorate
Whose Bird Common Bird Names and the People They Commemorate
Author: Bo Beolens, Michael Watkins
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 arr...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780300103595
ISBN-10: 030010359X
Publication Date: 1/11/2004
Pages: 384
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Publisher: Yale University Press
Book Type: Paperback
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