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Most have done so through more or less natural causes--through disease, say, or widespread climatic change. In historic times, though, many species have been hastened to extinction through human actions, inadvertent and deliberate. In the case of the Hawaiian rail, Fuller writes in this catalog of birds that have disappeared since 1600, the introduction of alien species, such as the mongoose, domestic cat, and rat, was probably to blame. Rats, too, killed off the Lord Howe Island white-eye when a ship accidentally ran aground there in 1918. The Carolina parakeet disappeared a few years later, owing, perhaps, to the destruction of its forest habitat and its beautiful plumage, highly prized by hunters. Mosquitoes carried on other ships felled many other island species. And so on. Curiously, Fuller writes, the usual-suspect agents of extinction--hunting, say, or egg collecting--have had a smaller effect on vulnerable bird species than have changes in the environment wrought by humans and their "accompanying menagerie."
Fuller's book makes for a sobering obituary, and one of particular interest to environmentalists engaged in habitat preservation and restoration. --Gregory McNamee
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Book Description (Hardcover, 1987). 1987 1st edition. 4to (215 x 286mm). Pp256. Colour paintings and photographs throughout, bibliography, decorative end-papers. Black boards, spine titled in gilt. Good-plus in frayed dust-wrapper. Fuller's lavishly illustrated work details the natural history and fates of more than 80 species of birds which have disappeared since 1600. . Seller Inventory # 17228
Book Description (Hardcover, 1987). 1987 1st edition. 4to (215 x 286mm). Pp256. Colour paintings and photographs throughout, bibliography, decorative end-papers. Black boards, spine titled in gilt. Slightly bumped, inscription but good-plus in repaired dust-wrapper. This copy is inscribed by the author to a former owner. There is another former owner's gift inscription to the rear of the front free end-paper. Fuller's lavishly illustrated work details the natural history and fates of more than 80 species of birds which have disappeared since 1600. . Seller Inventory # 27834
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Book Description Hardcover (Original Cloth). Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. 256 pp., list of illustrations, foreword by the Hon. Miriam Rothschild, preface by author, biographical nodes, bibliography, acknowledgements and index. Coloured illustrated frontispiece, showing Hawaii O'os by J. G Keuleman. The text is illustrated with black and white photographs, archival illustrations in colour, black and white illustrations and sketches. Illustrated endpapers, being part of Francois Leguat's account of the Rodrigues Solitary, circa 1708. Black coloured boards with gilt writing on the spine. The bottom edge of the book shows slight rubbing and top paper edge some dust marks. Illustrated dustwrapper showing Huias by J. G Keuleman, with black writing on the front panel and spine. Minor wrinkling to the top of dustwrapper edge and some slight fading to the spine. Rubbing to the back panel has occurred. "Extinct birds is an absorbing study of the world's recently extinct bird species, the first complete survey since Walter Rothschilds' classic work of 1907.". Size: 4to 9¾" - 12" tall. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: History; Conservation; Natural History -- Ornithology; ISBN: 0670817872. ISBN/EAN: 9780670817870. Inventory No: 0101303. Seller Inventory # 0101303