The Race to Save the World's Rarest Bird
Title | The Race to Save the World's Rarest Bird PDF eBook |
Author | Alvin Powell |
Publisher | Stackpole Books |
Pages | 298 |
Release | 2008-03-12 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 081174129X |
• Real-life scientific adventure • A thought-provoking exploration of how the Endangered Species Act works--and how it fails Thirty years ago, researchers discovered a previously unknown species of bird in the rain-soaked and remote mountains of Hawaii. As they studied the creature--which sported a black mask and was called the po'ouli--they soon learned that its population was shrinking quickly, and they worked frantically to find out what was killing the species and how they might prevent its extinction. This fast-paced account of their work, done in one of the world's most inhospitable environments, describes a stirring fight for survival. It also illustrates the challenge of protecting endangered species in a rapidly changing world.
Spix's Macaw
Title | Spix's Macaw PDF eBook |
Author | Tony Juniper |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 316 |
Release | 2004-11-16 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 0743475518 |
"Spix's Macaw tells the story of a unique band of brilliant blue birds - who talk, fall in love, and grieve - struggling against extinction. By the second half of the twentieth century the birds had become more valuable than heroin, worth thousands of dollars on the black market. In 1990, only one was found to be living in the wild and an emergency international rescue operation was launched, calling on private collectors to come forward with their birds to mate with the last wild Spix's." "In a breathtaking display of stoicism and endurance, the loneliest bird in the world had lived without a mate for fourteen years, outwitting predators and poachers. Would he take to a new companion? Like humans, Spix's Macaws can't be forced to love, but the stakes were as high as they could be: the survival of one of the world's most beautiful birds."--BOOK JACKET.
Facing Extinction
Title | Facing Extinction PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Donald |
Publisher | A&C Black |
Pages | 313 |
Release | 2013-12-19 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 1408189666 |
Examines extinction in birds, with case studies of critically endangered species and the research initiatives designed to save them.
The Race to Save the Lord God Bird
Title | The Race to Save the Lord God Bird PDF eBook |
Author | Phillip Hoose |
Publisher | Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR) |
Pages | 223 |
Release | 2014-08-26 |
Genre | Young Adult Nonfiction |
ISBN | 0374301964 |
The tragedy of extinction is explained through the dramatic story of a legendary bird, the Ivory-billed Woodpecker, and of those who tried to possess it, paint it, shoot it, sell it, and, in a last-ditch effort, save it. A powerful saga that sweeps through two hundred years of history, it introduces artists like John James Audubon, bird collectors like William Brewster, and finally a new breed of scientist in Cornell's Arthur A. "Doc" Allen and his young ornithology student, James Tanner, whose quest to save the Ivory-bill culminates in one of the first great conservation showdowns in U.S. history, an early round in what is now a worldwide effort to save species. As hope for the Ivory-bill fades in the United States, the bird is last spotted in Cuba in 1987, and Cuban scientists join in the race to save it. All this, plus Mr. Hoose's wonderful story-telling skills, comes together to give us what David Allen Sibley, author of The Sibley Guide to Birds calls "the most thorough and readable account to date of the personalities, fashions, economics, and politics that combined to bring about the demise of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker." The Race to Save the Lord God Bird is the winner of the 2005 Boston Globe - Horn Book Award for Nonfiction and the 2005 Bank Street - Flora Stieglitz Award.
Facing Extinction
Title | Facing Extinction PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 312 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Extinct birds |
ISBN | 9781472597663 |
An authoritative study of extinction in birds, with case studies of 20 critically endangered species and the research initiatives designed to save them.
The World's Rarest Birds
Title | The World's Rarest Birds PDF eBook |
Author | Erik Hirschfeld |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Pages | 364 |
Release | 2013-03-17 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 1400844908 |
An illustrated survey of the world's most endangered birds This illustrated book vividly depicts the most endangered birds in the world and provides the latest information on the threats each species faces and the measures being taken to save them. Today, 571 bird species are classified as critically endangered or endangered, and a further four now exist only in captivity. This landmark book features stunning photographs of 500 of these species—the results of a prestigious international photographic competition organized specifically for this book. It also showcases paintings by acclaimed wildlife artist Tomasz Cofta of the 75 species for which no photos are known to exist. The World's Rarest Birds has introductory chapters that explain the threats to birds, the ways threat categories are applied, and the distinction between threat and rarity. The book is divided into seven regional sections—Europe and the Middle East; Africa and Madagascar; Asia; Australasia; Oceanic Islands; North America, Central America, and the Caribbean; and South America. Each section includes an illustrated directory to the bird species under threat there, and gives a concise description of distribution, status, population, key threats, and conservation needs. This one-of-a-kind book also provides coverage of 62 data-deficient species.
Facing extinction: the world's rarest birds and the race to save them
Title | Facing extinction: the world's rarest birds and the race to save them PDF eBook |
Author | Paul F. Donald |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Extinct birds |
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