Outdoors and Nature BooksHow about The Sibley Guide to Birds, The Birds of Heaven, Thinking in Pictures or 100 Birds and How They Got Their Names. 100 Birds and How They Got Their Names - offers 100 two- to three-page essays that provide brief but satisfactory descriptions of an individual bird or bird group (e.g., sparrows, owls, and hawks). Tidbits and trivia, as well as literary, folkloric, biblical, mythical, or other references, help explain why a bird is named as it is. Wells discusses the origin of the scientific name, clarifying the meaning of the original Latin terminology, and often recounts who selected the name and why or for whom the bird was named. |
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