Peterson Reference Guide to Sparrows of North America: A Field Guide to Sparrows, Towhees, and Juncos―Fascinating Stories, Science, and History (Peterson Reference Guides) - Hardcover

Wright, Rick

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0547973160 ISBN 13: 9780547973166

Verlag: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2019

Inhaltsangabe

Sparrows are as complicated as they are common. This is an essential guide to identifying 76 kinds, along with a fascinating history of human interactions with them.

 

What, exactly, is a sparrow? All birders (and many non-birders) have essentially the same mental image of a pelican, a duck, or a flamingo, and a guide dedicated to waxwings or kingfishers would need nothing more than a sketch and a single sentence to satisfactorily identify its subject. Sparrows are harder to pin down. This book covers one family (Passerellidae), which includes towhees and juncos, and 76 members of the sparrow clan. 

  

Birds have a human history, too, beginning with their significance to native cultures and continuing through their discovery by science, their taxonomic fortunes and misfortunes, and their prospects for survival in a world with ever less space for wild creatures. This book includes not just facts and measurements, but stories—of how birds got their names and how they were discovered—of their entanglement with human history.  

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RICK WRIGHT leads “Birds and Art” tours in Europe and the Americas for Victor Emanuel Nature Tours. He lives in Bloomfield, New Jersey.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2019
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0547973160
• ISBN 13: 9780547973166
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 448
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