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Book Synopsis The Ornithologist's Dictionary by : Johannes Erritzoe
Download or read book The Ornithologist's Dictionary written by Johannes Erritzoe and published by Lynx Edicions. This book was released on 2007 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides access to short and comprehended explanations to more than 5,000 words and terms in English that any ornithologist or birder may encounter during his or her research.
Book Synopsis The Eponym Dictionary of Birds by : Bo Beolens
Download or read book The Eponym Dictionary of Birds written by Bo Beolens and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-03-19 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive dictionary listing all the people whose names are commemorated in the English and scientific names of birds. Birdwatchers often come across bird names that include a person's name, either in the vernacular (English) name or latinised in the scientific nomenclature. Such names are properly called eponyms, and few people will not have been curious as to who some of these people were (or are). Names such as Darwin, Wallace, Audubon, Gould and (Gilbert) White are well known to most people. Keener birders will have yearned to see Pallas's Warbler, Hume's Owl, Swainson's Thrush, Steller's Eider or Brünnich's Guillemot. But few people today will have even heard of Albertina's Myna, Barraband's Parrot, Guerin's Helmetcrest or Savigny's Eagle Owl. This extraordinary work lists more than 4,000 eponymous names covering 10,000 genera, species and subspecies of birds. Every taxon with an eponymous vernacular or scientific name (whether in current usage or not) is listed, followed by a concise biography of the person concerned. These entries vary in length from a few lines to several paragraphs, depending on the availability of information or the importance of the individual's legacy. The text is punctuated with intriguing or little-known facts, unearthed in the course of the authors' extensive research. Ornithologists will find this an invaluable reference, especially to sort out birds named after people with identical surnames or in situations where only a person's forenames are used. But all birders will find much of interest in this fascinating volume, a book to dip into time and time again whenever their curiosity is aroused.
Book Synopsis Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names by : James A. Jobling
Download or read book Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names written by James A. Jobling and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2010-06-30 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive dictionary of the meaning and derivation of scientific bird names. Many scientific bird names describe a bird's habits, habitat, distribution or a plumage feature, while others are named after their discoverers or in honour of prominent ornithologists. This extraordinary work of reference lists the generic and specific name for almost every species of bird in the world and gives its meaning and derivation. In the case of eponyms brief biographical details are provided for each of the personalities commemorated in the scientific names. This fascinating book is an outstanding source of information which will both educate and inform, and may even help to understand birds better.
Book Synopsis A Dictionary of Birds by : Bruce Campbell
Download or read book A Dictionary of Birds written by Bruce Campbell and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-06-27 with total page 701 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Dictionary of Birds enlists contributions from over 280 ornithologists and other specialists from around the world. Major, authoritative articles cover the field of modern ornithology and related subjects, many of them running to several thousand words. In addition there are articles on all the bird families, almost all of which are illustrated by a representative species. There are also numerous short entries defining special terms, application of names, etc. The total gives a text of over 800,000 words, supported by more than 500 photographs, drawings and diagrams. The photographs have been selected under the guidance of Eric Hosking to illustrate different activities of birds, and Robert Gillmor has assembled a collection of over 200 drawings of birds, almost all of which were specially drawn for the Dictionary. Compiled for the British Ornithologists' Union, this new work is in line of succession from Newton's A Dictionary of Birds of 1896 and Landsborough Thomson's A New Dictionary of Birds published in 1964 (2nd impression 1965) and now long out of print. This dictionary, encyclopedic in treatment, is destined to be a major reference in any ornithologist's library; and its editors and contributors, most of whom gave their time and knowledge freely, have earned the thanks and acclaim of users for many years to come.
Book Synopsis Supplement to the Ornithological Dictionary, Or Synopsis of British Birds by : George Montagu
Download or read book Supplement to the Ornithological Dictionary, Or Synopsis of British Birds written by George Montagu and published by . This book was released on 1813 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Dictionary of American Bird Names by : Ernest Alfred Choate
Download or read book The Dictionary of American Bird Names written by Ernest Alfred Choate and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes "Biographical appendix," bibliography, and Englis/Latin glossary.
Book Synopsis Ornithological Dictionary; Or, Alphabetical Synopsis of British Birds by : George Montagu
Download or read book Ornithological Dictionary; Or, Alphabetical Synopsis of British Birds written by George Montagu and published by . This book was released on 1802 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A New Dictionary of Birds by : British Ornithologists' Union
Download or read book A New Dictionary of Birds written by British Ornithologists' Union and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 976 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Ten Thousand Birds by : Tim Birkhead
Download or read book Ten Thousand Birds written by Tim Birkhead and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-03-01 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten Thousand Birds provides a thoroughly engaging and authoritative history of modern ornithology, tracing how the study of birds has been shaped by a succession of visionary and often-controversial personalities, and by the unique social and scientific contexts in which these extraordinary individuals worked. This beautifully illustrated book opens in the middle of the nineteenth century when ornithology was a museum-based discipline focused almost exclusively on the anatomy, taxonomy, and classification of dead birds. It describes how in the early 1900s pioneering individuals such as Erwin Stresemann, Ernst Mayr, and Julian Huxley recognized the importance of studying live birds in the field, and how this shift thrust ornithology into the mainstream of the biological sciences. The book tells the stories of eccentrics like Colonel Richard Meinertzhagen, a pathological liar who stole specimens from museums and quite likely murdered his wife, and describes the breathtaking insights and discoveries of ambitious and influential figures such as David Lack, Niko Tinbergen, Robert MacArthur, and others who through their studies of birds transformed entire fields of biology. Ten Thousand Birds brings this history vividly to life through the work and achievements of those who advanced the field. Drawing on a wealth of archival material and in-depth interviews, this fascinating book reveals how research on birds has contributed more to our understanding of animal biology than the study of just about any other group of organisms.
Author :Gary H. Meiter Publisher :McDonald and Woodward Publishing Company ISBN 13 :9781935778424 Total Pages :0 pages Book Rating :4.7/5 (784 download)
Book Synopsis Bird is the Word by : Gary H. Meiter
Download or read book Bird is the Word written by Gary H. Meiter and published by McDonald and Woodward Publishing Company. This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than 900 species of birds are known from North America, an avifauna made up of native year-round residents and seasonal migrants, modestly enhanced by introduced exotics and neighboring vagrants. Bird Is the Word is an unequalled compilation of the names of almost 800 of those birds and the record of how, when, where, and by whom those names were created and became parts of the history and science of North America's avifauna. This book is made up of three parts. Part I provides an introduction to the discovery and recording of North American birds by Europeans and to the scope and structure of avian taxonomy. Part II, which consists of 26 chapters and makes up most of the book, is devoted to the names of the individual species and the historical and cultural context of those names. Part III includes three appendixes, the largest of which introduces more than a hundred naturalists and other persons who participated searching for, finding, recording, naming, describing, or illustrating the birds of North America. Bird Is the Word is a rich, and readily accessible, collection of information about finding and naming the birds of North America. It is much more than a reference book; it is a journey of discovery that will enrich the reader's birding experience.
Book Synopsis The Ornithological Guide ... by : Charles Thorold Wood
Download or read book The Ornithological Guide ... written by Charles Thorold Wood and published by . This book was released on 1835 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A New Dictionary of the English Language by : Charles Richardson
Download or read book A New Dictionary of the English Language written by Charles Richardson and published by . This book was released on 1837 with total page 1056 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Aaaaw to Zzzzzd: The Words of Birds by : John Bevis
Download or read book Aaaaw to Zzzzzd: The Words of Birds written by John Bevis and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2010-08-20 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The distinctive and amazing songs and calls of birds: a meditation and a lexicon. “A miraculous little book: a compressed encyclopedia of our fascination with avifauna.” —The Nation “A charming, funny, and eccentric book.” —Times Literary Supplement “An elegant tribute to the beauty of its subject.” —Los Angeles Times Birds sing and call, sometimes in complex and beautiful arrangements of notes, sometimes in one-line repetitions that resemble a ringtone more than a symphony. Listening, we are stirred, transported, and even envious of birds' ability to produce what Shelley called “profuse strains of unpremeditated art.” And for hundreds of years, we have tried to write down what we hear when birds sing. Poets have put birdsong in verse (Thomas Nashe: “Cuckoo, jug-jug, pu-we, to-witta-woo”) and ornithologists have transcribed bird sounds more methodically. Drawing on this history of bird writing, in Aaaaw to Zzzzzd John Bevis offers a lexicon of the words of birds. For tourists in Birdland, there could be no more charming phrasebook. Consulting it, we find seven distinct variations of “hoo” attributed to seven different species of owls, from a simple hoo to the more ambitious hoo hoo hoo-hoo, ho hoo hoo-hoo; the understated cheet of the tree swallow; the resonant kreeaaaaaaaaaaar of the Swainson's hawk; the modest peep peep peep of the meadow pipit. We learn that some people hear the Baltimore oriole saying “here, here, come right here, dear” and the yellowhammer saying “a little bit of bread and no cheese.” Bevis, a poet, frames his lexicons—one for North America and one for Britain and northern Europe—with an evocative appreciation of birds, birdsong, and human attempts to capture the words of birds in music and poetry. He also offers an engaging account of other methods of documenting birdsong—field recording, graphic notation, and mechanical devices including duck calls and the serinette, an instrument used to teach song tunes to songbirds. The singing of birds is nature at its most sublime, and words are our medium for expressing this sublimity. Aaaaw to Zzzzzd belongs in the bird lover's backpack and on the word lover's bedside table, an unexpected and sui generis pleasure.
Book Synopsis Encyclopædia Metropolitana; Or, Universal Dictionary of Knowledge ... by : Edward Smedley
Download or read book Encyclopædia Metropolitana; Or, Universal Dictionary of Knowledge ... written by Edward Smedley and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 798 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Handbook of Bird Biology by : Sandy Podulka
Download or read book Handbook of Bird Biology written by Sandy Podulka and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 1248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Handbook of Bird biology covers all major topics, from anatomy and physiology to ecology, behavior, and conservation biology. One full chapter addresses vocal communication and is accompanied by a CD of bird vocalizations. Produced by the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology's world-renowned Macaulay Library of Natural Sounds, the CD illustrates key elements of bioacoustics. The book's text was written by 12 leading ornithologists and illustrated by respected photographers and artist John Schmitt. It includes an extensive glossary and index, a list of the common and scientific names of all birds mentioned in the text, author profiles, suggested readings following each chapter, and a complete reference section. The Handbook serves as the backbone of the Lab's popular Home Study Course in Bird Biology, a self-paced course that can be taken from anywhere in the world, by anyone with a serious interest in birds who would like guidance from professional ornithologists.
Book Synopsis A New Dictionary of the English Language by : Charles Richardson (LL.D.)
Download or read book A New Dictionary of the English Language written by Charles Richardson (LL.D.) and published by . This book was released on 1837 with total page 1128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Encyclopaedia Metropolitana; Or, Universal Dictionary of Knowledge, on an Original Plan ... with ... Engravings: Miscellaneous and lexicographical by :
Download or read book Encyclopaedia Metropolitana; Or, Universal Dictionary of Knowledge, on an Original Plan ... with ... Engravings: Miscellaneous and lexicographical written by and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 790 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
