Taking a new look at natural history writings in India, this anthology bringstogether some of the best writings on the role of birds in human life-from religion to entertainment, mythology to science, superstition to wisdom. INDICE: Preface. Introduction ; BIRDS AND THE HUMAN MINDSCAPE; Birds inthe Writer's Imagination ; The Heron that Liked Crab-meat ; The Shrewd Old Gander ; Rikki-Tikki-Tavi and Darzee ; The Cock-a-doodle-doo ; How the Hoopoe Got its Crest ; Delightful Distractions ; The Quail and the Hawk ; The Story of a Pair of Cranes ; Sher Singh Shoots a Crane ; In Praise of the Indian Crow ; Sparrows of Ahmad Nagar Fort Prison ; Nightjar Eggs ; Rescuing a Fledgeling ; Delightful Distractions ; Castaway with Birds ; Falling in Love Again ; 'Foreword' to The Wildlife of India ; SPORT, ENTERTAINMENT, AND FALCONRY; Hunting and Sport; Hunting at Bindukhera ; Bird Holocausts at Bharatpur ; Hunting with the Sheikhs ; Entertainment; Parrot ; Bird-fighting and Pigeon-flying in Lucknow ; Peter and His Relations ; Partridge Fight in Delhi ; Falcons and Falconry;Falcons of India ; Falconry Flights ; NATURALISTS ON THE PROWL; The Common Birds of Bombay ; Bird Nesting ; The Great Himalayan Barbet ; The Spotted Forktail ; A South Indian Heronry ; Edible Birds' Nests ; The Common Hawk-Cuckoo or Brain-fever Bird ; The Flight of Eagles ; NATURAL HISTORY AND SCIENCE; Birds of Hindustan ; Koel ; A Quail with a Spur ; Windpipes of Bustard and Crane ; Close Observations on Bustards ; The Nesting Cranes ; The Snow-wreath or Siberian Crane ; The Pink-headed Duck ; The Mute Swan ; Economic Ornithology ; Suggestions on How to Run a Bird Survey ; The Non-violent Scientific Study of Birds ; BIRDWATCHING AND BEYOND; Stopping by the Woods on a Sunday Morning ; The Nesting of Baya ; A Visit to the Flamingos in the Great Rann of Kutch ; Green Parakeets in a Delhi Garden ; The Breeding Birds of Bharatpur ; Notes from Madras; Poet, Lover, Birdwatcher ; An Evening at Pashan Lake, Poona ; A Day's Worthof Delhi Birds ; The Courtship of Storks ; Ornithology in Bandipur ; Some Observations on the Apparent Decrease in Numbers of the Blue Jay ; The Pair beside the Lake ; The Greater Adjutant Stork ; Cranes of Hanley ; Rare Bird of the Mountains ; The Haflong Phenomenon ; Misty Binoculars and Other Strategies forSurvival among Birdwatchers ; PERSONALITIES AND CONTROVERSIES; Remembering Sálim Ali ; Remembering Sálim Ali ; The EmPee Saar in Andhra Pradesh ; Sálim Alion Others; Colonel Meinertzhagen ; Revealing Excerpts from the Diaries of Colonel Richard Meinertzhagen, D.S.O. ; Edward Pritchard Gee ; The Maharaja of Kutch ; Controversies; Are Warblers Less Important Than Tigers? ; The Bird Ringing Controversy ; Common English Names of the Birds of the Indian Subcontinent ; Forest Owlet Thought to be Extinct is Spotted Anew after 113 Years; Sources.Acknowledgements. Further Reading
- ISBN: 978-0-19-806939-3
- Editorial: Oxford University
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 414
- Fecha Publicación: 07/10/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés