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Extinct Birds

出版	Bloomsbury Publishing, 2017-08-24
主題	Nature / Animals / BirdsNature / Environmental Conservation & ProtectionNature / Endangered SpeciesNature / Birdwatching GuidesScience / Life Sciences / Zoology / Ornithology
ISBN	14729374579781472937452
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=lmErDwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋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.