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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 12 May 2005
- ISBN 9780198546535
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages380 pages
- Size 254x198x23 mm
- Weight 1144 g
- Language English
- Illustrations numerous halftones, colour plates, maps and line drawings 0
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Short description:
This book is the most up to date work on honeycreepers, covering the life history, relationships, and biology of the birds. The honeycreepers, with their bright colouration and canary-like songs, are famed for their unique evolutionary history as a geographically isolated group that has undergone a spectacular burst of adaptions to the islands of the Hawaiian archipelago.
MoreLong description:
The Hawaiian Honeycreepers are typified by nectar feeding, their bright colouration, and canary-like songs. They are considered one of the finest examples of adaptive radiation, even more diverse than Darwin's Galapagos finches, as a wide array of different species has evolved in all the different niches provided by the Hawaiian archipelago. The book will therefore be of interest to evolutionary biologists and ecologists, as well as professional ornithologists and amateur bird watchers. As with the other books in the Bird Family of the World series, the work is divided into two main sections. Part I is an overview of the Hawaiian Honeycreeper evolution and natural history and Part II comprises accounts of each species. The author has produced his own outstanding illustrations of these birds to accompany his text.
Review rec'd L'ornithologue, May/June 2006 - not translated
Table of Contents:
Foreword
Acknowledgments
List of colour plates
List of abbreviations
Preface
Plan of the book
Frequently mispronounced words of Hawaiian origin
Meet the Hawaiian Honeycreepers
The honeycreepers' world
Discovery and research: a historical review
Origin and Evolution
Classification
The physical honeycreeper: Form, colour, and function
Behaviour
Ecology
Diseases and parasites
Status, conservation, and the future
Genera and Species Accounts
Part II comprises of 20 honeycreeper species, further details available on request.
Honeycreepers in Hawaiian material culture
Scientific names and families of plants mentioned in the text
Scientific names and families of non-Hawaiian birds mentioned in the text
Bibliography
Index
