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Mrs Moreau's Warbler: How Birds Got Their Names Hardcover - 2018
by Moss, Stephen
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- Title Mrs Moreau's Warbler: How Birds Got Their Names
- Author Moss, Stephen
- Binding Hardcover
- Condition New
- Pages 368
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Guardian Faber Publishing
- Date 2018-12-04
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
- Bookseller's Inventory # 1783350903_new
- ISBN 9781783350902 / 1783350903
- Weight 1.2 lbs (0.54 kg)
- Dimensions 8.1 x 6.3 x 1.4 in (20.57 x 16.00 x 3.56 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Birds, Terminology
- Dewey Decimal Code 598.014
From the rear cover
Cuckoo, chiffchaff and kittiwake: just three of many names based on the bird's sound. Wheatear: nothing to do with ears of wheat, but the Anglo-Saxon for "White-arse". Hobby: whoe scientific name, Falco subbuteo, inspired the table-top football game. Dartford warbler: originally found near Dartford, yet never sighted there again. Cuddy's duck: local name for the eider, whose feathers were made into eiderdowns. Bananaquit, festive coquette and screaming piha: the world's most unusual bird names? Mrs Moreau's warbler: the touching love story behind the name of one of the world's rarest birds.
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Citations
- Booklist, 12/01/2018, Page 20
- Library Journal, 11/15/2018, Page 90
- Publishers Weekly, 10/15/2018, Page 0