Notes on the Birds of Northern Melanesia. 4. American Museum Novitates
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Author : Julian P. Hume
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 609 pages
File Size : 35,42 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 : Don Hadden
Publisher : Dove Publications
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 22,50 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Birds
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This title describes and illustrates the avifauna of the North Solomons Province of Papua New Guinea. The highlights include 199 full colour photographs and 25 paintings illustrating 142 species. Also includes plumage descriptions and information on voice, habitat status and distribution.
Author : Joel Asaph Allen
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Page : 208 pages
File Size : 36,56 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Natural history
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Comprises articles on geology, paleontology, mammalogy, ornithology, entomology and anthropology.
Author : Jürgen Haffer
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 469 pages
File Size : 29,58 MB
Release : 2007-08-16
Category : Science
ISBN : 354071779X
This book is the first detailed biography of Ernst Mayr. He was an ‘architect’ of the Synthetic Theory of Evolution, and the greatest evolutionary biologist since Charles Darwin, influential historian and philosopher of biology, outstanding taxonomist and ornithologist, and naturalist. He is one of the most widely known biologists of the 20th century. Mayr used the theories of natural selection and population thinking as theoretical models within the framework of historical biological studies. He was the first to emphasize the role of biopopulations, thereby pointing out the basic difference between ’population thinking’ and typological essentialism.
Author : Robert B. Payne
Publisher : Bird Families of the World
Page : 682 pages
File Size : 18,61 MB
Release : 2005-07-14
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0198502133
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Author : F. C. Kinsky
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Page : 76 pages
File Size : 38,44 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Biology
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Author : David W. Steadman
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 609 pages
File Size : 43,91 MB
Release : 2006-10-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 0226771423
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Release : 1969
Category : Zoology
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