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Autore |
Pratt H. Douglas (Harold Douglas), <1944-> |
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Titolo |
The Hawaiian honeycreepers [[electronic resource] ] : Drepanidinae / / H. Douglas Pratt ; colour plates, drawings, and photographs by the author ; bird photographs by Jack Jeffrey ; with an appendix by Sheila Conant |
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Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2005 |
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1-383-02745-5 |
1-281-34630-6 |
9786611346300 |
0-19-152403-4 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (393 p.) |
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Collana |
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Bird families of the world ; ; 12 |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [291]-333) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; List of colour plates; List of abbreviations; Plan of the book, names and terms; Honeycreeper Topography; Frequently mispronounced words of Hawaiian origin; PART I: General chapters; PART II: Species accounts; Appendix 1: Honeycreepers in Hawaiian material culture; Appendix 2: Scientific names and families of plants mentioned in the text; Appendix 3: Scientific names, families, and subfamilies of non-Hawaiian birds mentioned in the text; Bibliography; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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. - ;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 fi |
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