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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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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| Pubblicazione: | Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2005 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (393 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 598.8 |
| Soggetto topico: | Drepanididae |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [291]-333) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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 |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The Hawaiian honeycreepers |
| ISBN: | 1-281-34630-6 |
| 9786611346300 | |
| 0-19-152403-4 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910451032003321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Bird families of the world ; ; 12.