Birds Of Melanesia

Author : Guy Dutson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1408152460
Total Pages : 451 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Birds of Melanesia written by Guy Dutson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2011-11-30 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The perfect guide to the birds of Melanesia - New Caledonia, the Solomons, the Bismarcks and Vanuatu. Written by leading ornithologist, Guy Dutson, this new Helm Field Guide covers the species-rich Melanesia region of the south-west Pacific, from New Caledonia and the Solomons through the Bismarcks to Vanuatu. This is an increasingly popular destination for tours and travellers, and one that has never before had complete field-guide coverage. For anyone travelling to this far-flung Pacific region, this book is an indispensable birdwatching guide. Species accounts include 650 superb illustrations allied with concise written information to aid quick and accurate identification. The cover star is the Kagu, the region's most iconic bird species and a highly sought-after endemic of New Caledonia.

Author : Ernst Mayr
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0195141709
Total Pages : 537 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Birds of Northern Melanesia written by Ernst Mayr and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 537 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Speciation is the process by which co-existing daughter species evolve from one ancestral species - e.g., humans, chimpanzees, and gorillas arising from a common ancestor around 5,000,000 years ago. However, many questions about speciation remain controversial. The Birds of Northern Melanesia provides by far the most comprehensive study yet available of a rich fauna, composed of the 195 breeding land and fresh-water bird species of the Bismarck and Solomon Archipelagoes east of New Guinea. This avifauna offers decisive advantages for understanding speciation, and includes famous examples of geographic variation discussed in textbooks of evolutionary biology. The book results from 30 years of collaboration between the evolutionary biologist Ernst Mayr and the ecologist Jared Diamond. It shows how Northern Melanesian bird distributions provide snapshots of all stages in speciation, from the earliest (widely distributed species without geographic variation) to the last (closelyrelated, reproductively isolated species occurring sympatrically and segregating ecologically). The presentation emphasizes the wide diversity of speciation outcomes, steering a middle course between one-model-fits-all simplification and ungeneralizable species accounts. Questions illuminated include why some species are much more prone to speciate than others, why some water barriers are much more effective at promoting speciation than others, and whether hypothesized taxon cycles, faunal dominance, and legacies of Pleistocene land bridges are real. These years of study have resulted in a huge database, complete with distributions of all 195 species on 76 islands, together with their taxonomy, colonization routes, ecological attributes, abundance, and overwater dispersal. Color plates depict 88 species and allospecies, many of which have never been seen before. For students of speciation, Northern Melanesian birds now constitute a model system against which other biotas can be compared. For population biologists interested in other problems besides speciation, this rich database can now be mined for insights.

Author : Ernst Mayr
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
ISBN 13 : 146290890X
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Birds of Southwest Pacific written by Ernst Mayr and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2012-09-11 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perfect for birdwatching enthusiasts travelling to Indonesia, this concise guide is full of interesting information. This practical handbook, by an acknowledged authority, intended primarily for the field student, tells him how to identify and name the birds of Indonesia which he encounters, and what kinds of birds he can expect to find on each island. There is also a condensed summary of the present knowledge of distribution, geographical variation and habits. Whenever feasible, keys have been supplied to facilitate identification. These keys are simply and clearly worked out for the beginner who may not know the difference between a curlew and a godwit, or a triller and a graybird. Three magnificent color plates show 39 species which include at least one representation of all of the prominent bird families of the southwest Pacific. A series of black and white drawings show additional species. These pictures will be particularly valuable to bird students who have never seen a wood swallow, a flower pecker, a white-eye or a triller.

Author : Leslie Bernard McPherson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780958224451
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Birds of Melanesia written by Leslie Bernard McPherson and published by . This book was released on 2001-08-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Stephen Debus
Publisher : CSIRO PUBLISHING
ISBN 13 : 1486306934
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Australasian Eagles and Eagle-like Birds written by Stephen Debus and published by CSIRO PUBLISHING. This book was released on 2017-08 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eagles are awe-inspiring birds that have influenced much human endeavour. Australia is home to three eagle species, and in Melanesia there are four additional endemic species. A further three large Australian hawks are eagle-like. Eagles, being at the top of the food chain, are sensitive ecological barometers of human impact on the Earth’s ecosystem services, and all of the six Australian species covered in this book are threatened in at least some states (one also nationally). Three of the four Melanesian tropical forest endemics are threatened or near-threatened. In Australasian Eagles and Eagle-like Birds, Dr Stephen Debus provides a 25-year update of knowledge on these 10 species as a supplement to the Handbook of Australian, New Zealand and Antarctic Birds (HANZAB) and recent global treatises, based partly on his own field studies. Included are the first nest or prey records for some Melanesian species. This book places the Australasian species in their regional and global context, reviews their population status and threats, provides new information on their ecology, and suggests what needs to be done in order to ensure the future of these magnificent birds. Australasian Eagles and Eagle-like Birds is an invaluable resource for raptor biologists, birdwatchers, wildlife rescuers and carers, raptor rehabilitators and zookeepers.

Author : David W. Steadman
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226771423
Total Pages : 609 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Extinction and Biogeography of Tropical Pacific Birds written by David W. Steadman and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2006-10-15 with total page 609 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description

Author : Leslie B. McPherson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780958213929
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Birds of Melanesia written by Leslie B. McPherson and published by . This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Adrian Skerrett
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472946014
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Birds of Seychelles written by Adrian Skerrett and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-10-20 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This compact field guide, based on Birds of Seychelles by Adrian Skerrett, Ian Bullock and Tony Disley (Helm 2000), is the only field guide to cover every species recorded in Seychelles. It covers more than 250 species, including all residents, migrants and vagrants. Concise text on facing pages highlights key identification features, including habitat, distribution, status and voice. The plates are based on the authors' previous work, but with the addition on many new images. The text has been completely re-written and revised for this edition, and the plates are been re-worked to accommodate a number of new additions to the country's list. There are now 12 more plates than in the first edition.

Author : Ber van Perlo
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 000741336X
Total Pages : 69 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Birds of New Zealand, Hawaii, Central and West Pacific (Collins Field Guide) written by Ber van Perlo and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2011-03-31 with total page 69 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essential guide to identifying every species of bird you may see in this area, for both tourists and wildlife enthusiasts.

Author : Jean-Claude Thibault
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788416728053
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Birds of Eastern Polynesia : a biogeographic atlas written by Jean-Claude Thibault and published by . This book was released on 2017-07 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: