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Article: Whose bird? Common Bird Names and the People They Commemorate.(Book Review)
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- Wilson Bulletin
- Article date:
- September 1, 2004
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WHOSE BIRD?: COMMON BIRD NAMES AND THE PEOPLE THEY COMMEMORATE. By Bo Beolens and Michael Watkins. Yale University Press, New Haven, Connecticut. 2004:378 + 22 pp. in-text illustrations. ISBN: 030010359X. $35.00 (paper).--The history of ornithology, probably more than that of any other science, is rich in a spectacular cast of extraordinary characters: rogues, saints, soldiers, sailors, adventurers, misfits, scientists, aristocrats and hoi polloi, liars and frauds, priests and missionaries. This is hardly surprising, considering that the search for new bird species involved travel to places where there was a better-than-average chance of being eaten (by everything from a ...