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Guide to the birds of Fiji and Western Polynesia (book review)
Pacific Conservation Biology, Vol.9(3)
Surrey Beatty & Sons
2003
Abstract
FEW taxa have suffered at the expansion of humanity to the extent of the birds of Pacific Islands. Of the 130 or so birds to become extinct as a consequence of European exploration and colonization of the Pacific, most were island birds and most were flightless rails. Not so well understood is the scale of extinctions that accompanied pre-European colonization of the Pacific islands. Only now is the paleontological record revealing the richness of the lost Pacific avifauna much of which can be put on a par with the loss of moas from New Zealand and the Dodo Raphus cucullatus from Mauritius in the Indian Ocean.
Details
- Title
- Guide to the birds of Fiji and Western Polynesia (book review)
- Authors/Creators
- H.F. Recher (Author/Creator)
- Publication Details
- Pacific Conservation Biology, Vol.9(3)
- Publisher
- Surrey Beatty & Sons
- Identifiers
- 991005545349407891
- Copyright
- © Surrey Beatty & Sons
- Murdoch Affiliation
- Murdoch University
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Other
- Resource Sub-type
- Nonrefereed Article
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