General Reading, Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, etc.
General Reading, Dictionaries, Encyclopedias,
etc.
| General Reading | Dictionaries | Encyclopedias | Non-birding Books | Maps & Atlases |
"The Choate book is as small as Terres' is large, but both are packed with information. Some bird’s names are complicated in the telling, as in the Osprey, Pandion haliaetus, which takes on "mythological" proportions in Choate’s detailed account."
~ Lois Clark
"Terres’ book provides, among a myriad of other things, help with pronunciation. The following is an example of a portion of the information available in Terres’ book about one of our more common birds: "Mourning Dove, Zenaida macroura (zen-AY-ih-dah mah-CROO-rah); genus name by Charles Lucien Bonaparte, French zoologist, in l838, in honor of his wife, Princess Zenaida Charlotte Julie Bonaparte, to a genus of doves that includes the Zenaida Dove, White-winged Dove, and, more recently, the Mourning Dove, (see American Ornithologist’ Union, l973); species name: from Gr. makros, long, and oura, tail; mourning, from inferred sadness of the bird’s call."
~ Lois Clark, ( "A Starling by Any Other Name ..." -- September UCB Newsletter)
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