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

• Autore: Pratt H. Douglas (Harold Douglas), <1944->
• Pubblicazione: Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2005
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (393 p.)
• Disciplina: 598.8
• Soggetto topico: Drepanididae
• 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: 1-383-02745-5; 1-281-34630-6; 9786611346300; 0-19-152403-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910785090603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Bird families of the world ; ; 12.