Mrs Moreau's Warbler: How Birds Got Their Names by Stephen Moss

Mrs Moreau's Warbler: How Birds Got Their Names

Stephen Moss

368 pages first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction nature informative slow-paced
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Swallow and starling, puffin and peregrine, blue tit and blackcap. We use these names so often that few of us ever pause to wonder about their origins. What do they mean? Where did they come from? And who created them? The words we use to name bir...

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