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Birds of the World: Recommended English Names
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 598.014
EAN: 9780691128276
ISBN: 0691128278
Label: Princeton University Press
Manufacturer: Princeton University Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 272
Publication Date: July 31, 2006
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Studio: Princeton University Press
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Editorial Review:This book provides the first standardized English-language nomenclature for all living birds of the world. While previous checklists, including those by Sibley and Monroe, Clements, and Howard and Moore, were primarily taxonomic works, Birds of the World provides English-language names based on the rules and principles developed by leading ornithologists worldwide and endorsed by members of the preeminent International Ornithological Congress. The book's introduction includes background material on the project and discusses the authors' rationale for naming conventions. The list of over 10,000 names follows, in taxonomic order, with relevant scientific names and a brief description of the birds' breeding range.
- The first standardized English-language nomenclature for all living birds
- 10,000+ names, in taxonomic order
- Includes scientific names and descriptions of birds' breeding range
- Accompanying CD contains full text and additional information on species distribution
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Rating:  - Helpful for organizing life lists
A typical page in this book contains 3 columns: International English Name, Scientific Name, and Region(s), with one line per species. Birds are grouped by order and family.
One of the best things about this book is that it comes with a CD with an Excel spreadsheet containing all of the birds in the book. My "life list" currently consists of little notes written in a bunch of field guides (all written in various languages, depending on where in the world I was). I plan to use this ... Read More
Rating: - English Standard Names
This book is fantastic. It gives the International Ornithological Congress recommended English names of the 10,066 species following the taxonomic sequence of Monroe and Sibley. Hopefully at long last a standard has been set and we will all use the same names as this book encourages. Included with the book is an extremely useful CD containing all of the books information as a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet. This will no doubt help all computer software creators in updating their lists automatically. No ... Read More
Rating:  - Why
Do we really need to have standardised English names? We have latin names to prevent the confusion that local english names may cause. For example how can you say which is better Common Loon or Great Northern Diver. It's pointless
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