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A History of Ornithology

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Peter Bircham
482 pages, colour illus, b&w photos.
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Softcover | out of print | 2007 | #151698 | ISBN-13: 9780007199709

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Contents
Up to the Sixteenth Century
The First Bird Book
The First British List
The Willughby/Ray Ornithology and other Seventeenth Century Works
The Systema naturae: Dawn of a New Age
The First Ornithological Ecologists: White, Jenner and Blackwall
Early Studies of Migration: Legg, Jenner and others
A Dictionary and Two Histories
The Artists and their Avifaunas
Alfred Newton and the Founding of the British Ornithologist's Union.
Theories of Classification, the National Collection and the Catalogue of Birds.
The Twentieth Century: Winds of Change
Recording the Avifauna of Britain
Migration: the Scientific Studies Begin
Plumage, Cages, Eggs and Shooting: The History of Bird Protection.
Behavioural and Ecological Studies
After the War
Post-War Ornithological Research
The British List and Problems with Fraud
New Slants on Old Problems
Appendix: The British List
References and Further Reading
Index
 

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