The Sparrows
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The Sparrows

  1. 352 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

The Sparrows

About this book

While Denis Summers-Smith's monograph The Sparrows presented his knowledge of sparrow biology, this volume tells the other, human, side of the tale.

Denis Summers-Smith first took up the study of the House Sparrow in 1947, thinking that the difficulties of travel in post-war Britain would best suit the study of a species always close at hand. The humble House Sparrow, common everywhere, was surprisingly poorly researched and his work soon provided interesting insights into this successful and adaptable little bird.

As new opportunities to travel opened up, his interest blossomed to take in the genus Passer as a whole. His travels would ultimately lead to his study of all but one of the group, found only in deepest Turkestan, and to the publication of his authoritative monograph on sparrows in 1988.

His wry descriptions of the tribulations and unexpected pleasures of a traveller on four continents, from the Himalayas and Thailand to Africa and the Americas (with a good few islands in between), are interspersed with observations and speculations on the biology of sparrows in a wide variety of habitats. Everywhere local officials and bird watchers warmed to the eccentric Scot in pursuit of the little birds that nobody notices but which so often make their homes beside us.

The author's own photographs and delightful cartoons by Euan Dunn further paint the picture of this lifelong search.

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Information

Publisher
T & AD Poyser
Year
2010
Print ISBN
9781408138243
Edition
1
eBook ISBN
9781408138250
Topic
Biological Sciences
Subtopic
Zoology
Index
Biological Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Copyright page
  3. Contents
  4. List of figures
  5. List of tables
  6. Preface and Acknowledgements
  7. Introduction
  8. Chapter 01 - The Afrotropical grey-headed sparrows
  9. Chapter 02 - Golden Sparrow Passer luteus
  10. Chapter 03 - Chestnut Sparrow Passer eminibey
  11. Chapter 04 - Cape Sparrow Passer melanurus
  12. Chapter 05 - Rufous Sparrow Passer motitensis
  13. Chapter 06 - Iago Sparrow Passer iagoensis
  14. Chapter 07 - Somali Sparrow Passer castanopterus
  15. Chapter 08 - Desert Sparrow Passer simplex
  16. Chapter 09 - House Sparrow Passer domesticus
  17. Chapter 10 - Willow (Spanish) Sparrow Passer hispaniolensis
  18. Chapter 11 - Dead Sea Sparrow Passer moabiticus
  19. Chapter 12 - Sind Jungle Sparrow Passer pyrrhonotus
  20. Chapter 13 - Pegu Sparrow Passer flaveolus
  21. Chapter 14 - Cinnamon Sparrow Passer rutilans
  22. Chapter 15 - Tree Sparrow Passer montanus
  23. Chapter 16 - Saxaul Sparrow Passer ammodendri
  24. Chapter 17 - Characteristics and interrelationships
  25. Chapter 18 - Origins and evolution
  26. Chapter 19 - The systematic position of the sparrows
  27. Appendix A
  28. Appendix B
  29. References
  30. Colour plates

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