Author: British Museum (Natural History). Department of Zoology
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Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages : 304
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Hand-list of Genera and Species of Birds: Conirostres, Scansores, Columbæ and Gallinæ. 1870
Author: British Museum (Natural History). Department of Zoology
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Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages : 304
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Publisher:
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Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages : 304
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List of Current Natural History Publications of the Trusees of the British Museum
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Languages : en
Pages : 18
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Languages : en
Pages : 18
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Extinct Birds
Author: Julian P. Hume
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1472937457
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 581
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1472937457
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 581
Book Description
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.
Catalogue of Botanical Works Offered for Sale ...
Author: Dulau and Co., Ltd
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 578
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Languages : en
Pages : 578
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Darwin's Finches
Author: Kathleen Donohue
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226157717
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
Two species come to mind when one thinks of the Galapagos Islands—the giant tortoises and Darwin’s fabled finches. While not as immediately captivating as the tortoises, these little brown songbirds and their beaks have become one of the most familiar and charismatic research systems in biology, providing generations of natural historians and scientists a lens through which to view the evolutionary process and its role in morphological differentiation. In Darwin’s Finches, Kathleen Donohue excerpts and collects the most illuminating and scientifically significant writings on the finches of the Galapagos to teach the fundamental principles of evolutionary theory and to provide a historical record of scientific debate. Beginning with fragments of Darwin’s Galapagos field notes and subsequent correspondence, and moving through the writings of such famed field biologists as David Lack and Peter and Rosemary Grant, the collection demonstrates how scientific processes have changed over time, how different branches of biology relate to one another, and how they all relate to evolution. As Donohue notes, practicing science today is like entering a conversation that has been in progress for a long, long time. Her book provides the history of that conversation and an invitation to join in. Students of both evolutionary biology and history of science will appreciate this compilation of historical and contemporary readings and will especially value Donohue’s enlightening commentary.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226157717
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
Two species come to mind when one thinks of the Galapagos Islands—the giant tortoises and Darwin’s fabled finches. While not as immediately captivating as the tortoises, these little brown songbirds and their beaks have become one of the most familiar and charismatic research systems in biology, providing generations of natural historians and scientists a lens through which to view the evolutionary process and its role in morphological differentiation. In Darwin’s Finches, Kathleen Donohue excerpts and collects the most illuminating and scientifically significant writings on the finches of the Galapagos to teach the fundamental principles of evolutionary theory and to provide a historical record of scientific debate. Beginning with fragments of Darwin’s Galapagos field notes and subsequent correspondence, and moving through the writings of such famed field biologists as David Lack and Peter and Rosemary Grant, the collection demonstrates how scientific processes have changed over time, how different branches of biology relate to one another, and how they all relate to evolution. As Donohue notes, practicing science today is like entering a conversation that has been in progress for a long, long time. Her book provides the history of that conversation and an invitation to join in. Students of both evolutionary biology and history of science will appreciate this compilation of historical and contemporary readings and will especially value Donohue’s enlightening commentary.
Catalogue of the General Assembly Library of New Zealand
Author: New Zealand. Parliament. Library
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 546
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 546
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An Annotated Bibliography of the Red-cockaded Woodpecker, Picoides Borealis
Author: Jerome A. Jackson
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Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages : 308
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Publisher:
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Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages : 308
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Hand-list of Genera and Species of Birds, Distinguishing Those Contained in the British Museum
Author: George Robert Gray
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Languages : en
Pages : 278
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Languages : en
Pages : 278
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The literature of Australian birds: a history and a bibliography of
Author: Herbert Massey Whittell
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 952
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 952
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The Literature of Australian Birds
Author: Hubert Massey Whittell
Publisher:
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Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages : 952
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Publisher:
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Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages : 952
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