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About this title: 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, and many others. Entries explain who the people were, when and where they traveled, ...
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Whose Bird? : Common Bird Names and the People They Commemorate
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Beolens, Bo
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Publisher: Yale University Press
Date Published: 1-11-04
ISBN-13: 9780300103595
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Whose Bird? : Common Bird Names and the People They Commemorate
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ISBN-13: 9780300103595
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Whose Bird? : Common Bird Names and the People They Commemorate
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Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael
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Publisher: Yale University Press
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Whose Bird?: Common Bird Names and the People They Commemorate
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Beolens, Bo, and Lyndon Baines Johnson Library, and Schott, Ben (Foreword by)
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Publisher: Yale University Press
Date Published: 2004
ISBN-13: 9780300103595
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Whose Bird? : Men and Women Commemorated in the Common Names of Birds
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Bo Beolens, Michael Watkins, Ben Schott
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Bo Beolens & Michael Watkins
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Whose Bird? : Men and Women Commemorated in the Common Names of Birds
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Bo Beolens, Michael Watkins, Ben Schott
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Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael
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Whose Bird? : Common Bird Names and the People They Commemorate
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Bo Beolens And Michael Watkins
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Yale University Press
Date Published: 2004
ISBN-13: 9780300103595
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