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The first work on Great Andamanese ethno-ornithology, it looks into semantics, linguistics, cultural history, and ornithology. Starting with a brief history of ornithology, the book moves on to describe the bird life of Andamans, indigenous place names of Andamanese Islands, the language and people, among other things. The main part of the book is taken up by species description complemented by photographs of over 100 Andaman bird species. From the methodology of ...
The geographical scope of the book includes the Indian subcontinent, particularly India, Nepal, Bhutan, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Tibet, Pakistan, Bangladesh, the Maldives and Afghanistan. In this book, the author have tried to include as many species of birds of this region as possible and have referred to Manakadan and Pittie (2001) for the list of birds occurring in the Indian subcontinent. Also included the newly assigned and proposed species for the region, by ...
The Western Ghats of India, identified as a World Biodiversity hotspot by Birdlife International, is an ecological zone of global importance. Together with the adjacent coastal areas of Kokan Goa, Karnataka, Kerala, and the Deccan Plateau, this Endemic Bird Area supports a variety of habitats marine waters, mangroves, mixed hill forests, montane grasslands and scrub forests. A vast spectrum of birdlife and other biodiversity is found here, but the area is under ...
Acknowledgements. Credits for Photographs. 1. Introduction. 2. Historical aspects and review of literature. 3. Taxonomy. 4. Radiography and wing formula of Collocalia Unicolor. 5. Known distribution. 6. Study area. 7. Topography and climate of the study area. 8. Study period. 9. Methodology. 10. Ecology and behaviour. 11. Recent observations and results. 12. Tabulation of recent observations and published records of occurrence and status of Collocalia Unicolor. ...