This is the first comprehensive review of the hundreds of bird species and subspecies that have become extinct over the last 1,000 years of habitat degradation, over-hunting and rat introduction. Covering both familiar icons of extinction as well as more obscure birds, some known from just one specimen or from traveller's tales, the book also looks at hundreds of species from the subfossil record - birds that disappeared without ever being recorded. Julian Hume and Michael Walters recreate these lost birds in stunning detail, bringing together an up to date review of the literature for every species. From Great Auks, Carolina Parakeets and Dodos to the amazing yet completely vanished bird radiations of Hawaii and New Zealand, via rafts of extinctions in the Pacific and elsewhere, this book is both a sumptuous reference and an amazing testament to humanity's impact on birds. A direct replacement for Greenway's seminal 1958 title Extinct and Vanishing Birds, this book will be the standard reference on the subject for generations to come.
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Julian P. Hume is an author and artist at the Natural History Museum in Tring, UK, with 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. Now retired, Michael Walters is the former curator of the egg collections at Tring.
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This is an excellent, throughly researched reference work on extinct birds.It is clearly set out making it easy to study.
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The reference on extinct taxa
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Extinct Birds is a sad roll call of those birds we have lost throughout mankind's existence and those that petered out before we got here. Each of the species is given in typical field guide manner with name in English and Latin with status, range, description, if available, habits and extinction. There are four appendices at the back including rediscovered taxa which offers some hope that all may not have been lost.
This book covers some of the more familiar extinctions like the Carolina Parakeet, Passenger Pigeon and Great Auk but also some of the lesser known and isolated species and subspecies that are now only found in fossil records or in the skins of museums. It's a testament to man's destructive power both by direct means like over hunting and land development to indirect means like introduced predators like rats and weasels. This is an essential reference to any ornithological library.
This book covers some of the more familiar extinctions like the Carolina Parakeet, Passenger Pigeon and Great Auk but also some of the lesser known and isolated species and subspecies that are now only found in fossil records or in the skins of museums. It's a testament to man's destructive power both by direct means like over hunting and land development to indirect means like introduced predators like rats and weasels. This is an essential reference to any ornithological library.
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