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Taha taha taha: South African bird names across time, language and usage
, 2020Humans find birds important as food, symbols, competitors, and objects for amusement or study, and give names to different groups or species of bird. However, a single bird may have many names, likely related to different contexts.
A. Koopman, E. Buchmann
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South African Journal of African Languages, 2019
Part One of this two-part series on the history of the recording of Zulu bird names covered the period of the first explorers in KwaZulu-Natal in the 1830s and went up to Samuelson’s 1923 dictionary.
A. Koopman
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Part One of this two-part series on the history of the recording of Zulu bird names covered the period of the first explorers in KwaZulu-Natal in the 1830s and went up to Samuelson’s 1923 dictionary.
A. Koopman
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Zulu bird names: A progression over the decades (I)
South African Journal of African Languages, 2018For nearly 250 years, beginning with Linnaeus in 1758 and continuing through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, birds have been given scientific and vernacular names created by deliberate, conscious, and methodological taxonomical naming processes ...
A. Koopman
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Bird names commemorating Edgar Stead
Notornis, 2012Edgar Stead (1881-1949) documented avian diversity on the islands around Stewart I during the 1930s and 1940s, and named 3 new passerine subspecies in 1936. Between 1912 and 1950, 6 other newly-recognised bird taxa were given the epithet ‘steadi’.
C. Miskelly
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2013
Australian Bird Names is aimed at anyone with an interest in birds, words, or the history of Australian biology and bird-watching. It discusses common and scientific names of every Australian bird, to tease out the meanings, which may be useful, useless or downright misleading!
Jeannie Gray, Ian Fraser
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Australian Bird Names is aimed at anyone with an interest in birds, words, or the history of Australian biology and bird-watching. It discusses common and scientific names of every Australian bird, to tease out the meanings, which may be useful, useless or downright misleading!
Jeannie Gray, Ian Fraser
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Bird-names in the Indian dialects
Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 1936The dictionaries of the modern Indian languages, whether scientific or otherwise, are alike in omitting certain material which would be of considerable value both to linguists and to those whose fortunes take them to reside in the Indian countryside. I refer to the names of birds.
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Journal AWWA, 2006
In his column, AWWA Executive Director Jack Hoffbuhr discusses pandemics, beginning with the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic. He describes how the virus originated in wild birds and eventually mutated to become infectious to humans. He links the Spanish Flu to the current new strain of bird flu through epidemiological and laboratory evidence that indicates ...
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In his column, AWWA Executive Director Jack Hoffbuhr discusses pandemics, beginning with the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic. He describes how the virus originated in wild birds and eventually mutated to become infectious to humans. He links the Spanish Flu to the current new strain of bird flu through epidemiological and laboratory evidence that indicates ...
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