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Belonging on an island : birds, extinction, and evolution in Hawai°i

Lewis, Daniel, 1959- author

Overview

This natural history takes readers on a thousand-year journey as it explores the Hawaiian Islands' beautiful birds and a variety of topics including extinction, survival, conservationists and their work, and, most significantly, the concept of belonging. Author Daniel Lewis, an award-winning historian and globe-traveling amateur birder, builds this lively text around the stories of four species - the stumbling moa-nalo, the Kaua'i 'o'هo, the palila, and the Japanese white-eye. Lewis offers innovative ways to think about what it means to be native and proposes new definitions that apply to people as well as to birds. Being native, he argues, is a relative state influenced by factors including the passage of time, charisma, scarcity, utility to others, short-term evolutionary processes, and changing relationships with other organisms. This book also describes how bird conservation started in Hawai`i and the naturalists and environmentalists who did extraordinary work.-- Source other than Library of Congress.

• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Subject: Birds Hawaii. / Birds Extinction Hawaii. / Birds Evolution Hawaii. / Island ecology. / Introduced organisms. / Birds. / Birds Evolution. / Birds Extinction. / Hawaii.
• ISBN: 9780300229646, 030022964X

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
QL684.H3 L49 2018	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE