Lost gold : ornithology of the subantarctic Auckland Islands / edited by Colin Miskelly & Craig Symes.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ornithological Society of New Zealand, issuing body.

Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

Miskelly, Colin, editor.

Symes, Craig, editor.

Series:

Notornis ; Vol. 67, part 1 (March 2020).

Notornis : journal of the Ornithological Society of New Zealand, 0029-4470 ; volume 67, part 1 (March 2020)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ornithology--New Zealand--Auckland Islands.

Ornithology.

Natural history--New Zealand--Auckland Islands.

Natural history.

Birds--Effect of predation on--New Zealand--Auckland Islands.

Birds.

Bird populations--New Zealand--Auckland Islands.

Bird populations.

Bird populations--Estimates.

Bird watching.

Auckland Islands (N.Z.).

New Zealand--Auckland Islands.

Physical Description:

435 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 24 cm.

Other Title:

Ornithology of the subantarctic Auckland Islands

Place of Publication:

Wellington, New Zealand : Te Papa Press, 2020.

Summary:

This special book-format issue of Birds New Zealands journal Notornis is devoted to the birds of the Auckland Islands Maukahuka/Motu Maha, the largest and biologically most diverse island group in the New Zealand subantarctic region. Its 19 chapters, written by leading ornithologists, cover a wide range of topics, including the history of ornithological discovery, biogeography, the impacts of introduced mammals and people, prehistoric bird communities based on bone assemblages, and population, ecological and genetic studies of several of the endemic or otherwise notable birds of the island group including Auckland Island snipe, white-headed petrel, and several albatross species.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Ornithological discovery, exploration, and research on the Auckland Islands, New Zealand subantarctic / R.H. Taylor

2. Birds of the Auckland Islands, New Zealand subantarctic / K.J. Walker

3. Subantarctic Adams Island and its birdlife / C.M. Miskelly

4. Birds of Enderby Island, Auckland Islands, New Zealand subantarctic / A.J.D. Tennyson

5. Shipwrecks and mollymawks: an account of Disappointment Island birds / P.J. McClelland

6. Introduced land mammals and their impacts on the birds of the subantarctic Auckland Islands / R.H. Taylor

7. Holocene bird bones found at the subantarctic Auckland Islands / A.J.D. Tennyson

8. An extinct New Zealand raven (Corvus antipodum) on the Auckland Islands - an osteographic enigma? / E.W. Dawson

9. Population estimate for yellow-eyed penguins (Megadyptes antipodes) in the subantarctic Auckland Islands, New Zealand / P.F. Battley

10. Development of aerial monitoring techniques to estimate population size of great albatrosses (Diomedea spp.) / K.J. Walker

11. Variation in the bill colour of the white-capped mollymawk (Thalassarche cauta steadi) / A.J.D. Tennyson

12. Population trends of light-mantled sooty albatross (Phoebetria palpebrata) at Adams Island and trials of ground, boat, and aerial methods for population estimates / G.C. Parker

13. First northern giant petrel (Macronectes halli) breeding population survey and estimate for the Auckland Islands, New Zealand / K. Rexer-Huber

14. Year-round distribution, breeding cycle, and activity of white-headed petrels (Pterodroma lessonii) nesting on Adams Island, Auckland Islands / S. Bose

15. White-chinned petrel (Procellaria aequinoctialis) burrow density, occupancy, and population size at the Auckland Islands / G.C. Parker

16. Genetic analyses reveal an unexpected refugial population of subantarctic snipe (Coenocorypha aucklandica) / C.M. Miskelly

17. Macquarie Island shags (Leucocarbo purpurascens) at the Auckland Islands - an addition to the New Zealand list / J.H. Cooper

18. First record of South Polar skua (Catharacta maccormicki) from New Zealand - Auckland Islands, March 1904 / C.M. Miskelly

19. Endemic is good, introduced is boring? Biases in bird reporting rates at the Auckland Islands / C.M. Miskelly.

Notes:

Some copies have variations in cover layout; some copies issued with erratum correcting omissions from a table on page 134.

Includes bibliographical references.

Published as a special issue of Notornis, the journal of the Ornithological Society of New Zealand.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

0995113661

9780995113664

OCLC:

1141973732

Publisher Number:

99991413526