Download or read book Native Names of Mexican Birds written by Roy E. Tomlinson and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ornithologists and birdwatchers need a definitive treatise to consult when confronted with unfamiliar common names of birds in Mexico. As in the United States, people of Mexico use colloquial names when referring to local birds. Considering the large expanses of land and the diverse ethnic origins of the people, the common bird names often differ from one locality to another; and in some cases, several different names are used for the same species. These names are of Spanish or Indian origin or Hispanic modifications of the original Indian dialect. The use of multiple common names for one or more species is confusing to visiting foreigners, as well as to residents of Mexico. Several bird guides exist that give Mexican common names, but they make no attempt to assign more than one name to a species, to show where one common names is used for several species, or to designate the localities in which the names are used. This publication has been compiled to fill this void in the Mexican bird literature. Coauthor Birkenstein began to accumulate common names in an extensive cross-referenced file after she moved to Mexico in 1951. She is a avid birdwatcher and founder of the Audubon Society of Mexico, the only chapter chartered by the National Audubon Society outside of the United States. For nearly 30 years, she has collected names throughout Mexico during her constant birding trips. This endeavor has earned her the reputation as the authority on the common bird names of Mexico among her peers in Mexico and the United States. Similarly, but independently, coauthor Tomlinson became aware of the lack of a good Mexican bird name source when he was assigned to work on endangered species in the Southwestern United States and Sonora, Mexico, in the late 1960's. A partial list of birds and mammals with English and Spanish names had been distributed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in 1952 (Anon. 1952). This list was intended primarily to familiarize law enforcement officers and other Service employees working in and adjacent to Mexico with Spanish names of animals commonly encountered. Tomlinson used the list frequently while working in Mexico, but soon discovered that it was inadequate. To facilitate discussions about birds with Mexican Nationals, he began a revision of the list. It proved to be a formidable task. As a result of these efforts, more than 3,000 Mexican common names have been documented herein. They represent 89 families and 994 species of birds found in Mexico. These names were accumulated through the authors' extensive personal contacts in the field and through careful research of various source documents as listed in the references at the end of this publication.
Download or read book Native Names of Mexican Birds written by and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than 3,000 Mexican common names have been documented in this work. The names represent 89 families and 994 species of birds found in Mexico. These names were accumulated through the authors' extensive personal contacts in the field and through careful research of various source documents as listed in the references at the end of this publication.
Download or read book Native Names of Mexican Birds written by and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Waterfowl and Their Wintering Grounds in Mexico 1937 64 written by George Bradford Saunders and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Owls of North America and the Caribbean written by Scott Weidensaul and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2015 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "With detailed information about identification, calls, habitat, breeding, nesting, and behavior, this reference guide has the most up-to-date information about natural history, taxonomy, biology, ecology, migration and conservation status."--Book jacket.
Download or read book Resource Publication written by and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 734 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications written by and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 964 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Chico George the Birds and Me written by Dorothy Chapman Saunders and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "When a mysterious manila envelope reached the hands of Henry "Milt" Reeves, no one could have anticipated the story that waited inside. Enclosed he found a manuscript - a typewritten carbon copy on onion-skin paper - written half a century earlier and yellowed with age. Each fragile page unfolded the first-person description of a trip Dorothy Chapman Saunders had taken to Mexico in 1948 and 1949 with her husband and seasoned ornithologist, George, to conduct field surveys of waterfowl and white-winged doves for the U.S. government." "Chico, George, the Birds, and Me presents Saunders's near-daily personal account of this five-month-long ornithological expedition and provides a glimpse into the dynamic life of a frontier biologist making her mark in a man's world." "Saunders adeptly describes the birds they saw and the survey work they did. She also charts the other details of their journey as they traveled south from Reynosa to Mexico City, then to Acapulco and Oaxaca, east to Veracruz, north to Tamaulipas and, finally, back to McAllen, Texas, Slowly chugging along in the under-powered jeep they affectionately dubbed "Chico," they explored lakes, lagoons, and volcanoes, Aztec ruins, markets, churches, and even old burro trails."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book General Technical Report RM written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Research and Development Series written by and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Selected Research Publication Series of the U S Fish and Wildlife Service 1889 1985 written by and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bibliography comprising annotated citations of 2037 scientific and technical publications from ten series issued by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Includes a six-page introduction containing a history of the Service and a description of the research and development series.
Download or read book Wings in the Desert written by Amadeo M. Rea and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2022-04-26 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a common but often unspoken arrogance on the part of outside observers that folk science and traditional knowledge—the type developed by Native communities and tribal groups—is inferior to the “formal science” practiced by Westerners. In this lucidly written and humanistic account of the O’odham tribes of Arizona and Northwest Mexico, ethnobiologist Amadeo M. Rea exposes the limitations of this assumption by exploring the rich ornithology that these tribes have generated about the birds that are native to their region. He shows how these peoples’ observational knowledge provides insights into the behaviors, mating habits, migratory patterns, and distribution of local bird species, and he uncovers the various ways that this knowledge is incorporated into the communities’ traditions and esoteric belief systems. Drawing on more than four decades of field and textual research along with hundreds of interviews with tribe members, Rea identifies how birds are incorporated, both symbolically and practically, into Piman legends, songs, art, religion, and ceremonies. Through highly detailed descriptions and accounts loaded with Native voice, this book is the definitive study of folk ornithology. It also provides valuable data for scholars of linguistics and North American Native studies, and it makes a significant contribution to our understanding of how humans make sense of their world. It will be of interest to historians of science, anthropologists, and scholars of indigenous cultures and folk taxonomy.
Download or read book Wildlife Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 1108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Birds of the Northwest written by Elliott Coues and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is based mainly on an unpublished report prepared by Coues in 1862 from the ornithological collections of F.V. Hayden and G.H. Trook taken during an expedition under Captain W.F. Raynolds, United States Engineers. The author preserved the "List of Specimens" tabulated in the original report, and extended the list with additional material from other collection trips in the West to compile what amounted to a "treatise on the Ornithology of the Western Territories," a desire expressed by F.V. Hayden to Coues.
Download or read book The Real Roadrunner written by Martha Anne Maxon and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A personal, lively, in-depth account of the life and lore of the roadrunner.
Download or read book Birds of the North West written by Elliott Coues and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Birds of the northwest a hand book of the ornithology of the region drained by the Missouri river and its tributaries by E Coues 1874 written by Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
