Extinct Birds Hardback - 2012

This is the first 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.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.
Julian 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.

Details

• Title Extinct Birds
• Author Hume, Julian; Walters, Michael
• Binding Hardback
• Pages 544
• Language ENG
• Publisher BLOOMSBURY ACAD & PR
• Date 2012-05-01
• ISBN 9781408157251