The Oxford Dictionary of British Bird Names (Oxford Reference S.) - Softcover

Lockwood, W. B.

 
9780198661962: The Oxford Dictionary of British Bird Names (Oxford Reference S.)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0198661967 ISBN 13: 9780198661962
Verlag: Oxford Paperbacks, 1993

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Covering over 1,500 standard and local British common bird names, relating to some 260 species, this A-Z guide should be invaluable to birdwatchers and word buffs throughout the British Isles. Each entry provides the etymology and history of the name, complete with full documentation of dates and sources. An introduction covers the linguistic evolution and standardization of bird names. As well as featuring such familiar names as crow, brown owl and wren, the dictionary includes newly-researched names like snalter, tail mouse and withy hanger, and obsolete terms like aberdevine. Among the birds included are those named by: region; diet - mussel duck; appearance - bald coot, ring neck; call - black screech, chat; habitat - bank martin, mud plover; and shape of nest - barrell tit.

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W. B. Lockwood is the author of several linguistic and ornithological studies and was formerly Professor of Germanic and Indo-European Philology at the University of Reading

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Verlag
Oxford Paperbacks
Erscheinungsdatum
1993
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0198661967
ISBN 13 
9780198661962
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Tapa blanda
Anzahl der Seiten
184
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