This is the first comprehensive review of the hundreds of bird species that have become extinct over the last 1,000 years of habitat degradation, over-hunting and rat introduction.
Julian P. Hume is an author and artist at the Natural History Museum in Tring, UK, with a long record of describing species new to science. An expert on the extinct birds of the Indian Ocean, he has dug for Dodos on Mauritius, searched for flightless pigeons on the Comoros, and undertaken many other research expeditions around the world. Now retired, Michael Walters is the former curator of the egg collections at Tring.
Consistently enthralling, addictive reading.
*Birding World*
a superb work of ornithological scholarship which will surely
become the standard point of first reference for years to come.
*British Birds*
This wellproduced new book claims to be the first fully
comprehensive treatment of the subject ever undertaken, and will
surely be the standard reference for generations to come... It is
truly fascinating and I highly recommend it.
*Scottish Birds*
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