Extinct Birds (PDF)
(Sprache: Englisch)
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...
Extinct Birds has become the standard text on this subject, covering both familiar...
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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.
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.
Autoren-Porträt von Julian P. Hume
After becoming established as a self-taught artist specialising in reconstructing extinct species, Julian P. Hume undertook a PhD in palaeontology at the Natural History Museum, London, studying extinct island birds. Julian now works as an author, artist and palaeontologist at the Natural History Museum in Tring and has a long record of describing species new to science. An expert on the extinct birds of the Indian Ocean, he has dug for Dodos on Mauritius, searched for flightless pigeons on the Comoros, and undertaken many other research expeditions around the world. More recently he has worked on a number of remote Pacific and Atlantic Ocean islands and made remarkable discoveries about the birds that once existed there.
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- Autor: Julian P. Hume
- 2017, 2. Auflage, 608 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
- ISBN-10: 1472937465
- ISBN-13: 9781472937469
- Erscheinungsdatum: 24.08.2017
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