New Zealand's Extinct Birds
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 109 pages
File Size : 36,47 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Extinct birds
ISBN : 9781869411473
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 109 pages
File Size : 36,47 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Extinct birds
ISBN : 9781869411473
Author : Alan James Drummond Tennyson
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,44 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Extinct birds
ISBN : 9780909010218
Paintings of fifty-eight species of extinct New Zealand birds including the largest eagle the earth has ever seen with text on facing pages.
Author : Rod Morris
Publisher :
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 28,58 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Birds
ISBN :
Thirty percent of New Zealand birds were endangered at the time of writing this book. This tells the story of the fight for survival of this unique bird life - from Old Blue to the kakapo, the black stilt to the takahe.
Author : Jenny Jones
Publisher :
Page : 7 pages
File Size : 26,33 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Extinct birds
ISBN :
Author : Hilary Aikman
Publisher :
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 14,58 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Nature
ISBN :
The first comprehensive book on the bird of the Chatham Islands, written by 2 Dept. of Conservation experts. All 68 breeding species are illustrated with colour photos and distribution maps. Includes such iconic species as black robin, Chatham Islands taiko and albatross.
Author : T. H. Worthy
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 1200 pages
File Size : 12,29 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780253340344
An investigation of the rich and unusual fauna of prehistoric New Zealand, telling of one of the most dramatic extinctions of modern times. The moa, a giant flightless bird, was among the animals lost, the authors summarize what is known about the bird, reconstructing its life and ecology.
Author : Tim Fridtjof Flannery
Publisher : Atlantic Monthly Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 15,50 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Extinct animals
ISBN : 9780871137975
A short description of the extinct animal along with a color drawing.
Author : Julian P. Hume
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 609 pages
File Size : 15,42 MB
Release : 2017-08-24
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1472937465
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.
Author : Quinn Berentson
Publisher :
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 29,17 MB
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Birds
ISBN : 9781877517846
The moa were the most unusual and unique family of birds that ever lived, a clan of feathered monsters that developed in isolation for many, many millions of years. They became extinct reasonably quickly after the arrival of the Maori, and were a distant memory by the time European explorers arrived. So the discovery and identification of their bones in the 1840s was a worldwide sensation, claimed by many to be the zoological find of the century. This book begins by recounting the story of discovery, which was characterised by an unbelievable amount of controversy and intrigue. Since then there has been an unbroken chain of new discoveries, culminating with intriguing revelations in recent years about the moa's biology, that have come to light through DNA testing and radio-dating. This is a fascinating and important book that richly recounts the life and death of our strangest bird. Packed with a fantastic range of illustrations, Moa fills an important gap in our natural history literature, a popular but serious book on this national icon.
Author : Julian P. Hume
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 581 pages
File Size : 42,78 MB
Release : 2017-08-24
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1472937457
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.