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

by Michael Watkins, 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 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"