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The Hawaiian honeycreepers, Drepanidinae / H. Douglas Pratt ; colour plates, drawings, and photographs by the author ; bird photographs by Jack Jeffrey ; with an appendix by Sheila Conant.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pratt, H. Douglas (Harold Douglas), 1944- author.
- Series:
- Bird families of the world ; 13.
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hawaiian honeycreepers.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (393 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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 adaptations to the islands of the Hawaiian archipelago.
- Contents:
- 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
- Notes:
- Formerly CIP.
- Previously issued in print: 2005.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.
- ISBN:
- 1-383-02745-5
- 1-281-34630-6
- 9786611346300
- 0-19-152403-4
- OCLC:
- 476256707
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