Taxa-specific Information (surveys and general information)

BIRDS

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Cassels, R. 1984. The role of prehistoric man in the faunal extinctions of New Zealand and other Pacific islands. In Martin, P.S. and Klein, R.G. (eds). Quaternary Extinctions, pp. 741-767. University of Arizona Press, Tucson.

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Garnett, S. 1993. Threatened and Extinct Birds of Australia. Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union, Moonee Ponds, Victoria.

Gill, B. and P. Martinson. 1991. New Zealand's Extinct Birds. Random Century, Auckland, N.Z.

Greenway, J. C. 1967. Extinct and Vanishing Birds of the World. Dover Publications, New York.

Hachisuka, M., Marquis. 1953. The Dodo and Kindred Birds; Or, The Extinct Birds of the Mascarene Islands. H. F. and G. Witherby, London.

Hermes, N. 1985. Birds of Norfolk Island. Wonderland Publications, Norfolk Island.

Hudson, W. H. and L. Gardiner. 1923. Rare, Vanishing and Lost British Birds. J.M. Dent and Sons Ltd. and E.P. Dutton and Co., London, Toronto, New York.

Hutton, I. 1991. Birds of Lord Howe Island: Past and Present. Published by the author, PO Box 6367, Coffs Harbour Plaza, New South Wales 2450.

Hutton, I. 1992. Changing birdlife of an island. Extinction and colonization on Lord Howe Island. Birds International 3(1):66-75.

James, H. F. 1995. Prehistoric extinctions and ecological changes on oceanic islands. Ecological Studies 115: 87-102.

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King, W. B. 1985. Island birds: will the future repeat the past? International Council for Bird Preservation Technical Bulletin 3: 3-15.

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McGlone, M. S. 1989. The Polynesian settlement of New Zealand in relation to environmental and biotic changes. New Zealand Journal of Ecology 12(Suppl): 115-129.

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Millener, P. R. 1940. Evolution, extinction and the subfossil record of New Zealand's avifauna. In Gill, B.J.and Heather, B.D. (eds). A Flying Start. Commemorating Fifty Years of the Ornithological Society of New Zealand 1940-1990, pp. 93-100. Random Century in association with Ornithological Society of N.Z. Inc., Aukland.

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Mukherjee, A. K. and Indian Museum 1966. Extinct and Vanishing Birds and Mammals of India. Publication Superintendent on behalf of the Director, Indian Museum, Calcutta.

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Olson, S. L. and H. F. James. 1982. Fossil birds from the Hawaiian Islands: evidence for wholesale extinction by man before western contact. Science 217(4560): 633-635.

Olson, S. L. and H. F. James. 1983. The fossil record of man-caused extinctions of insular birds. In Bunning, L.J. (ed). Proceedings of the Birds and Man Symposium held in Johannesburg 10-15 April 1983, p. 165. Witwatersrand Bird Club, Johannesburg : 165.

Olson, S. L. and H. F. James. 1984. The role of Polynesians in the extinction of the avifauna of the Hawaiian Islands. InMartin, P.S.and Klein, R.G. (eds). Quaternary Extinctions, pp. 768-780. University of Arizona Press, Tucson.

Olson, S. L. and H. F. James. 1989. Fragile Outposts. In Page, J. and Morton, E.S. The Smithsonian Book of Birds. Lords of the Air, pp. 110-115. Smithsonian Books and Orion Books, Washington D.C. and New York.

Olson, S. L. 1990. The prehistoric impact of man on biogeographical patterns of insular birds. Accademia Nazionale Dei Lincei Atti Convegni Lincei 85: 45-51.

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Pimm, S. L., M. P. Moulton, et al. 1995. Bird extinctions in the central Pacific. In Lawton, J.H. and May, R.M. (eds). Extinction Rates, pp. 75-87. Oxford University Press, Oxford, New York and Tokyo.

Pratt, H. D. 1994. Avifaunal change in the Hawaiian Islands, 1893-1993. Studies in Avian Biology 15(5): 103-118.

Rosenzweig, M. L. and C. W. Clark. 1994. Island extinction rates from regular censuses. Conservation Biology 8(2): 491-494.

Rothschild, L. W. R., Baron and W. Rothschild. 1907. Extinct Birds. An attempt to unite in one volume a short account of those birds which have become extinct in historical times -- that is, within the last six or seven hundred years. To which are added a few which still exist, but are on the verge of extinction. Hutchinson and Co, London.

Seitre, R. and J. Seitre. 1992. Causes of land-bird extinctions in French Polynesia. Oryx 26(4): 215-222.

Silva Croome, M. A. 1987. Los loros extintos en el mundo. En Peligro de Extincion 1(2): 22-23.

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Steadman, D. W. and P. S. Martin. 1984. Extinction of birds in the Late Pleistocene of North America. In Martin, P.S. and Klein, R.G. (eds). Quaternary Extinctions, pp. 466-477. University of Arizona Press, Tucson.

Steadman, D. W. 1989. Extinction of birds in eastern Polynesia: a review of the record, and comparisons with other Pacific island groups. Journal of Archaeological Science 16(2): 177-205.

Steadman, D. W., D. S. Pahlavan, et al. 1990. Extinction, biogeography, and human exploitation of birds on Tikopia and Anuta, Polynesia outliers in the Solomon Islands. Bishop Museum Occasional Papers 30: 118-153.

Steadman, D. W. and P. V. Kirch. 1990. Prehistoric extinction of birds on Mangaia, Cook Islands, Polynesia. Proceedings of The National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 87(24): 9605-9609.

Steadman, D. W. 1991. Extinct and extirpated birds from Aitutaki and Atiu, Southern Cook Islands. Pacific Science 45(4): 325-347.

Steadman, D. W. 1992. Extinct and extirpated birds from Rota, Mariana Islands. Micronesica 25(1): 71-84.

Steadman, D. W. and D. S. Pahlavan. 1992. Extinction and biogeography of birds on Huahine, Society Islands, French Polynesia. Geoarchaeology 7(5): 449-483.

Steadman, D. W. 1995. Prehistoric extinctions of Pacific island birds: biodiversity meets zooarchaeology. Science 267(5201): 1123-1131.

Steadman, D. W. 1997. Extinctions of Polynesian birds: reciprocal impacts of birds and people. In Kirch, Patrick and Hunt, Terry L. (eds). Historical Ecology in the Pacific Islands: Prehistoric Environmental and Landscape Change, pp. 51-79. Yale University Press, New Haven and London.

Steadman, D. W. 1997. Human-caused extinction of birds. In Reaka Kudla, Marjorie L., Wilson, Don E. and Wilson, Edward O. (eds). Biodiversity 2: Understanding and Protecting our Biological Resouces, pp. 139-161. Joseph Henry Press, Washington, D.C.

Steadman, D.W. and P.V. Kirch. 1998. Biogeography and prehistoric exploitation of birds in the Mussau Islands, Bismarck Archipelago, Papua New Guinea. Emu 98(Part 1): 13-22.

Stoutenburg, A., J. Schoenherr, et al. 1967. A Vanishing Thunder; Extinct and Threatened American Birds. Natural History Press, Garden City, N.Y.

Temple, S. A. 1986. The problem of avian extinctions. Current Ornithology 3: 453-485.

Tracy, C. R. and T. L. George. 1992. On the determinants of extinction. American Naturalist 139(1): 102-122.

Van Bemmelen, J. K. 1993. The extinct birds of the Chatham Islands. Occasional Papers of the Hutton Foundation 3: 1-72.

Villa Ramirez, B. 1981. Especies mexicanas de vertebrados silvestres raras o en peligro de extincion. Centzontle Revista de la Sociedad Mexicana de Ornithologia 1(3-4): 239-250.

Whitlock, R. 1953. Rare and Extinct Birds of Britain. Phoenix House, London.

Wragg, G. M. 1995. The fossil birds of Henderson Island, Pitcairn Group: natural turnover and human impact, a synopsis. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 56(1-2): 405-414.

Young, H. G., S. J. Tonge, et al. 1997. Review of Holocene wildfowl extinctions. Wildfowl 47: 166-180.