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The Search for the Rarest Bird in the World
Vernon R. L. Head
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Description for The Search for the Rarest Bird in the World
Hardcover. It is a meditation on nature, on ways of seeing, on the naming of things and why we feel so compelled to label. It is a story of friendships and camaraderie. But most of all it embraces and enfolds one into the curious and eye-opening world of the birdwatcher. For birdwatchers, twitchers, bird lovers, and about-to-become birdwatchers everywhere. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: RNKH; WNCB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 140 x 213 x 29. Weight in Grams: 390.
In 1990 an expedition of Cambridge scientists arrived at the Plains of Nechisar, tucked between the hills of the Great Rift Valley in the Gamo Gofa province in the country of Ethiopia. On that expedition, 315 species of birds were seen; 61 species of mammal and 69 species of butterfly were identified; 20 species of dragonflies and damselflies; 17 reptile species were recorded; three frog species were filed; plants were listed. And the wing of a road-killed bird was packed into a brown paper bag. It was to become the most famous wing in the world.At British Natural History Museum ... Read more
In 1990 an expedition of Cambridge scientists arrived at the Plains of Nechisar, tucked between the hills of the Great Rift Valley in the Gamo Gofa province in the country of Ethiopia. On that expedition, 315 species of birds were seen; 61 species of mammal and 69 species of butterfly were identified; 20 species of dragonflies and damselflies; 17 reptile species were recorded; three frog species were filed; plants were listed. And the wing of a road-killed bird was packed into a brown paper bag. It was to become the most famous wing in the world.At British Natural History Museum ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Signal Books Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781909930315
SKU
V9781909930315
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About Vernon R. L. Head
Vernon R. L. Head was born in Cape Town (South Africa) in 1967. He grew up in a bungalow near the sea. He studied architecture, winning national and international awards for design and creative thinking. He is presently Chairman of BirdLife South Africa, one of Africa's biggest and most influential conservation organisations. When not working on environmental matters, he is ... Read more
Reviews for The Search for the Rarest Bird in the World
'Fortunately for the reader, it is always possible both to enjoy Head's linguistic ingenuity and to follow the narrative. Perhaps the real lesson we learn from The Quest for the Rarest Bird in the World is that academic ornithology, with its austere requirement to interpret the lives of birds in terms of their 'lifetime fitness' and the twitchers' soulless obsession ... Read more