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Words for Birds

Words for Birds

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Author: Sálim Ali
Edited by Tara Gandhi

9789391028299 | HB | pp. 256 | 2021 | Permanent Black

Words for Birds is a collection of thirty-five talks by ornithologist and naturalist Sálim Ali on a range of topics related to birds, nature and conservation.

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Edited byTara Gandhi
9789391028299 | Hardback | 256 | 2021 | Permanent Black

Words for Birds is a collection of thirty-five talks by ornithologist and naturalist Sálim Ali on a range of topics related to birds, nature and conservation.

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The ornithologist Sálim Ali has long been synonymous with the scholarship, appreciation, and conservation of Indian birdlife. It is not as well known that he was also the most engaging raconteur about birds. This aspect — the great ornithologist as enthralling storyteller — is most apparent in this, the first and only, collection of all his radio broadcasts. The thirty-five talks that comprise this book were broadcast between 1941 and 1985 and show Sálim Ali’s exceptional skill as an oral communicator and bird propagandist. He describes the purpose of these radio transmissions: “The object of these talks is really to interest listeners, in the first instance for the healthy pleasure and satisfaction bird watching affords rather than for its intrinsic scientific possibilities.”

The talks cover many topics — bird habits, bird habitats, birds at risk — in an elegantly conversational and informative style. Birds, he tells us, have a crucial place in nature’s cyclic processes; they benefit agriculture; they contribute to the economy in ways we neither see nor fully understand. While the speaker’s focus is largely on birds, it is also evident that he is interested in all forms of wildlife and contemporary conservation issues. Each talk reads like a short essay. The book does not need to be read sequentially from start to finish — the reader has merely to dip into it at random to be hugely educated and entertained.

Author:

Sálim Ali
Editor: Tara Gandhi
ISBN:

9789391028299
Binding:

Hardback
Pages:

256
Year of Publication:

2021
Publisher:

Permanent Black
Edition:

First
Condition:

New
Country of Origin:

India

About the Author

The author was an Indian ornithologist and naturalist. His massive corpus includes the bestselling Book of Indian Birds and the monumental ten-volume Handbook of the Birds of India and Pakistan (co-authored with S. Dillon Ripley). The Birds of Kutch, Indian Hill Birds, Birds of Kerala, The Birds of Sikkim, and The Fall of a Sparrow, his autobiography, are some of his other well-known books.

The editor was guided by Salim Ali for her MSc in field ornithology. She works for biodiversity conservation and conducts surveys to document birds and other wildlife in India. Apart from scientific and popular articles on nature and ecology, she has written several books, the latest of which is Birds, Wild Animals and Agriculture: Conflict and Coexistence in India. She is also the editor of A Bird’s Eye View: The Collected Essays and Shorter Writings of Salim Ali (2 volumes, Permanent Black, 2007).

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