Paul Donald, Nigel Collar, Stuart Marsden, Debbie Pain

Facing Extinction (eBook, ePUB)

The world's rarest birds and the race to save them: 2nd edition

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

An authoritative study of extinction in birds, with case studies of 20 critically endangered species and the research initiatives designed to save them.

Almost two hundred species of birds have become extinct in the past 400 years, and a similar number today are in imminent danger of following them. The world's conservationists are leading the fight to prevent the demise of these remaining critically endangered birds, with a fair degree of success.

This new book examines the process and issues concerning extinction - how and why it happens and what can be done about it. Whilst man is to blame for many of the causes, such as persecution and habitat loss, species have become extinct on a regular basis since life began.

After several thought-provoking introductory chapters, the book showcases about 20 species on the brink of extinction from around the world and describes the work that is being undertaken to save them. Some are success stories, but a few are not.

This is a subject close to the hearts of all birders and ornithologists and this book, written by a team of leading conservationists, will strike a chord in most of them.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. August 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781408139097
• Artikelnr.: 38406465

Autorenporträt

Paul Donald is Senior Scientist at BirdLife International, and before this was for a long time Principal Scientist at the RSPB. He fell in love with larks while doing his doctoral research at Oxford University on the ecology of Skylarks, and has since worked on all of the world's rarest larks, including the critically endangered Liben Lark and Raso Lark. He is author of the Poyser monograph on the Skylark and lead author of Facing Extinction, a book about the world's rarest birds. For many years he was Editor-in-Chief of the leading ornithological journal Ibis, and he is a recipient of the prestigious ZSL Marsh Award for Conservation Biology. Paul is an Honorary Research Fellow of the University of Cambridge and an Honorary Life Member of the British Ornithologists' Union.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements Preface 1. The nature of rarity and the rarity of nature
2. The distribution and causes of rarity 3. Sociable Lapwing Vanellus
gregarius 4. Spoon-billed Sandpiper Eurynorhynchus pygmeus 5. Brazilian
Merganser Mergus octosetaceus 6. Royal Cinclodes Cinclodes aricomae 7.
Bengal Florican Houbaropsis bengalensis 8. Liben Lark Heteromirafa
sidamoensis 9. Yellow-crested Cockatoo Cacatua sulpurea 10. Rarity and
extinction on islands 11. Stephens Island Wren Xenicu (Traversia) lyalli
12. Tristan Albatross Diomedea dabbenena 13. Raso Lark Alauda razae 14.
Po'ouli Melamprosops phaeosoma 15. Saving the world's rarest birds 16.
Kakapo Strigops habroptila 17. Asian vultures Gyps bengalensis, G.
tenuirostris, G. indicus 18. Philippine Eagle Pithecophaga jefferyi 19.
Alagos Curassow Mitu mitu 20. Spix's Macaw Cyanopsitta spixii 21.
Madagascar Pochard Aythya innotata 22. The lost and the found 23. Gurney's
Pitta Pitta gurneyi 24. Forest Owlet Heteroglaux blewitti 25.
Slender-billed Curlew Numenius tenuirostris and Eskimo Curlew N. borealis
26. Rarity and extinction in the future References