Extinct Birds
Extinct Birds

Author: Julian P. Hume

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2017-08-24

Total Pages: 609

ISBN-13: 1472937465

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A comprehensive review of the hundreds of bird species that have become extinct over the last 1,000 years of habitat degradation, over-hunting and rat introduction. Extinct Birds has become the standard text on this subject, covering both familiar icons of extinction as well as more obscure birds, some known from just one specimen or from travellers' tales. This second edition is expanded to include dozens of new species, as more are constantly added to the list, either through extinction or through new subfossil discoveries. The book is the result of decades of research into literature and museum drawers, as well as caves and subfossil deposits, which often reveal birds long-gone that disappeared without ever being recorded by scientists while they lived. From Great Auks, Carolina Parakeets and Dodos to the amazing yet almost completely vanished bird radiations of Hawaii and New Zealand via rafts of extinction in the Pacific and elsewhere, this book is both a sumptuous reference and astounding testament to humanity's devastating impact on wildlife.

Catalogue ...
Catalogue ...

Author: Fiedler, Henry George, firm, booksellers, New York

Publisher:

Published: 1931

Total Pages: 822

ISBN-13:

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Bird Families of the World
Bird Families of the World

Author: David Ward Winkler

Publisher:

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 599

ISBN-13: 9788494189203

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This volume is a synopsis of the diversity of all birds. It distills the voluminous detail of the 17-volume Handbook of Birds of the World into a single book. Based on the latest systematic research and summarizing what is known about the life history and biology of each group, this volume is the best single-volume entry to avian diversity available.

A Classification and Synopsis of the Trochilidae
A Classification and Synopsis of the Trochilidae

Author: Daniel Giraud 1835-1915 Elliot

Publisher: Sagwan Press

Published: 2015-08-24

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 9781340184971

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