It was reported by the Oxford University Expedition in 1953 (Galbraith & Galbraith 1962) to be 'well-known to the natives, and apparently not rare below Nagasi', and local people apparently noted its presence in 1974 (Taylor & van Perlo ...
Simon, E. 1890. D'une espèce nouvelle de la famille des Trochilidae. Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France 15: 17–18. Simon, E. 1897. Catalogue des especes actuellement, connues de la famille des Trochilidae. Paris.
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.
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.
We learn from an early age that nothing is quite so dead as a dodo. We've heard stories of flocks of passenger pigeons once darkening the skies over North America,...
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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.