A comprehensive dictionary of English ornithological terms is long overdue. Ornithology, as practiced by professionals or amateurs, continues to grow, and this rapid growth is paralleled by an equally rapid increase in the number of words and terms applicable to ornithology and birding.
The Ornithologist's Dictionary provides ready and handy access to short and easily comprehended explanations to more than 5,000 words and terms in English that any ornithologist or birder may encounter during his or her reading or research.
The availability of quick and easy access to brief explanations of so many terms can save the user of the book hours of frustrating search in other reference volumes.
This dictionary, the result of an international collaboration by four experienced ornithologists, represents an invaluable resource that ornithologists and biologists in general will find indispensable.
Sample entry:
Episematic: used of traits such as special marks, colours, or behaviours that help an animal to recognise members of its own species; cf. antepisematic, proepisematic, pseudepisematic, aposematic.