Author : Jürgen Haffer
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 21,75 MB
Release : 2007-11-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9783540717782
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. He is one of the most widely known biologists of the 20th century.
Author : Joel Asaph Allen
Publisher :
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 31,86 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Natural history
ISBN :
Comprises articles on geology, paleontology, mammalogy, ornithology, entomology and anthropology.
Author : Julian P. Hume
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 609 pages
File Size : 22,58 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 : John B. Dunning Jr.
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 668 pages
File Size : 26,69 MB
Release : 2007-12-05
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1420064452
See what's new in the Second Edition: Number of species included is increased from 6300 to over 8700, about 85% of the world's birds Better data for many of the species included in the first edition- an exhaustive compilation of new data publis
Author : American Museum of Natural History. Library
Publisher :
Page : 674 pages
File Size : 43,57 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Natural history
ISBN :
Author : Joseph Forshaw
Publisher : CSIRO PUBLISHING
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 35,47 MB
Release : 2017-10-02
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0643106499
Joseph M. Forshaw, one of the world’s leading authorities on parrots, calls attention to the threats they face: they are one of the most endangered groups of birds, with a growing number of species nearing extinction. The main threats arise from habitat loss through deforestation and agricultural development and from the taking of birds for the international live-bird trade. Vanished and Vanishing Parrots brings together information on species that have become extinct in historical times with information on species that are in danger of becoming extinct to increase public awareness of the plight of these magnificent birds. Vivid colour plates by the wildlife artist Frank Knight draw attention to the spectacular species that we have lost or that could be lost. Forshaw’s work gives us fascinating insight into these endangered and extinct parrots. Vanished and Vanishing Parrots will be a valuable reference for scientific, ornithological and avicultural organisations, as well as individual lovers of birds and of illustrated natural history books.
Author : Robert B. Payne
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 644 pages
File Size : 49,61 MB
Release : 2005-07-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780191513558
The cuckoos are the most variable birds in social behavior and parental care: a few cuckoos are among the most social of all birds and rear their young in a common nest; most cuckoos are caring parents that rear their own young with some females laying a few eggs in the nests of others; while many cuckoo species are brood parasites who leave their eggs in the nests of other birds to rear, with their young maturing to kill their foster nestmates. In The Cuckoos, Robert B. Payne presents a new evolutionary history of the family based on molecular genetics, and uses the family tree to explore the origins and diversity of their behaviour. He traces details of the cuckoos' biology to their original sources, includes descriptions of previously unpublished field observations, and reveals new comparisons of songs showing previously overlooked cuckoo species. Lavishly illustrated with specially commissioned colour plates and numerous maps, halftones, and line drawings, The Cuckoos provides the most comprehensive and up-to-date account of this family yet available.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 652 pages
File Size : 45,8 MB
Release : 1974
Category : Zoology
ISBN :
Author : American Museum of Natural History. Library
Publisher :
Page : 922 pages
File Size : 27,27 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Natural history
ISBN :
Author : United States National Museum
Publisher :
Page : 1138 pages
File Size : 19,23 MB
Release : 1924
Category : Science
ISBN :
