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The Hawaiian honeycreepers : Drepanidinae /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2005.
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| Colección: | Bird families of the world ;
12. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xxxiii, 342 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-333) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780191524035 0191524034 |