Whose Bird? : Common Bird Names and the

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

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

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