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Threatened & Extinct Species
It is a sad fact that, in the last few hundred years man has been responsible for the extinction of a great many bird species - from the notorious but range restricted dodo to the millions of passenger pigeons that once blackened the skies of North America or the thousands of Great Auks eaten by sailors. The causes vary from the extinction of the St Stephen's Island Wren whose entire population was destroyed by one cat; the pet of a lighthosue keeper to the probably extirpation of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker through habitat destruction. Even more sadly we do not seemed to have learned our lesson and habitat destruction continues along with our wasteful societies causing the vlimate of the whole world to change. We could cause an extinction event as great as that natural phenomena which wiped out the dinasaurs. Those of us who care can not only help the efforts of conservationists to preserve the habitats of many endangered species; we can also change the way we live to reduce the pressure on the wild world whether it be population control or better use of scarce resources and more enlightened energy production. |
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Endangered Birds
by Bob Burton - Gareth Stevens Publishing (January 1996)ISBN: 0836814223
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Extinct and Endangered Birds in the collections of The Natural History Museum
A.G. Knox & M.P. Walters. 292 pages.Extinct Birds
(Hardcover) by Errol Fuller See: http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~design.machine-tanya/abird.htmExtinct Birds of New Zealand
Alan Tennyson 179 pages, colour and b&w illus. Te Papa PressISBN: 0909010218
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Facing Extinction: The World's Rarest Birds and the Race to Save Them
By Paul Donald, Nigel Collar, Stuart Marsden & Deborah J Pain | 312 pages | colour photographs and artworks | Hardcover | 2010 | £44.99ISBN: 978071367021
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On the Brink of Extinction
by Caroline Arnold, Michael Wallace - Gulliver Green 1993ISBN: 0152579907
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Prodigious Birds
Moas and Moa Hunting in New Zealand A Anderson 280 pages, 40 b/w photos, 20 illus, 20 tabs. Cambridge University PressISBN: 0521543967
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Return of the Crazy Bird: The Sad, Strange Tale of the Dodo
by Clara Pinto-Correia Hardcover 216 pages (1 February, 2003) Springer-Verlag New York Inc. See Fatbirder ReviewISBN: 0387988769
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Spix's Macaw: The Race to Save the World's Rarest Bird
by Tony Juniper Hardcover 304 pages (2 September, 2002) Fourth EstateISBN: 1841156507
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The Black Robin : Saving the World's Most Endangered Bird
by David Butler, Don Merton - OUP 1993ISBN: 0195582608
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The History of British Birds
by Derek Yalden and Umberto Albarella | Softcover | 2009 | 263 Pages | £24.95 | [Hardcover: ISBN 9780199217519] See Fatbirder ReviewISBN: 9780199581160
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The Lost World of the Moa: Prehistoric Life of New Zealand (Life of the Past S.)
by Trevor Worthy, Richard Holdaway, Rod Morris Hardcover 592 pages (March 2002) Indiana University PressISBN: 0253340349
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The Silent Sky: The Incredible Extinction of the Passenger Pigeon
by Allan Eckert 2000ISBN: 0595089631
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The Spotted Owl (Endangered in America)
by Robrt,Alvin Silverste Virginia - Millbrook Press 1994ISBN: 1562944150
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Who Killed the Great Auk?
Jeremy Gaskell - OUP 2000ISBN: 0198564783
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List of References on Endangered, Threatened, and Recently Extinct Birds
http://www.si.edu/encyclopedia_SI/nmnh/endsp5.htm
Alliance for Zero Extinction
WebsiteThe Alliance for Zero Extinction (AZE), a global initiative of biodiversity conservation organizations, aims to prevent extinctions by identifying and safeguarding key sites where species are in imminent danger of disappearing. The goal of the Alliance is to create a front line of defense against extinction by eliminating threats and restoring habitat to allow species populations to rebound.
BirdLife International
WebsiteBirdLife International is a global Partnership of conservation organisations that strives to conserve birds, their habitats and global biodiversity, working with people towards sustainability in the use of natural resources. BirdLife Partners operate in over one hundred countries and territories worldwide. Learn more in National Partners...
Endangered Birds
Website...While New Zealand has the highest percentage of endangered birds in the world, they are not the only country to suffer a sharp decline in their native bird populations...
The World's Rarest
WebsiteThe World’s Rarest project began in 2010 – the year proclaimed by The United Nations as the International Year of Biodiversity. It is a not-for-profit initiative that aims to highlight the plight of the most threatened species on Earth and to raise funds to support their conservation. The World’s Rarest project will focus initially on birds and contribute to BirdLife International's Preventing Extinctions Programme. The project starts with the launch of our exciting photo competition, which will provide the images for a new book entitled The World’s Rarest Birds...
WildAid
WebsiteWildAid's mission is to decimate the illegal wildlife trade within our lifetimes...
Archaeopteryx
WebsiteCloning of extinct Huia
WebsiteThe project began when students at the Hastings Boys High School in New Zealand wondered if their school emblem, the extinct Huia, could be revived...
Early Birds
WebsiteMini articles on some of the birds found in the fossil record from Archaeopteryx to Ichthyornis etc...
Endangered Birds
WebsiteAn annotated list
Endangered Species
WebsiteAn "endangered species" is any species of fish, animal, or plant that is in danger of extinction throughout all or a significant portion of its range. Subspecies and distinct populations of vertebrate species may also be listed...
Extinct Bird Species
WebsiteA list of known extinct species or subspecies of birds...
Extinct Birds
WebsiteA growing wiki on extinct birds...
Hawai'i's Endangered Birds
WebsiteAnnotated list
Hawai'i's Extinct Species
WebsiteAnother sadly long list...
Ivory-billed Woodpecker Campephilus principalis
WebsiteThe Ivory-billed Woodpecker is the second-largest woodpecker in the world, slightly smaller than the closely related Imperial Woodpecker (C. imperialis) of western Mexico, another rare species which is very likely to be extinct. It measures from 48 to 53 cm (19 to 21 in) in length and 450 to 570 g (1.0 to 1.25 lb) in weight, with short legs and feet ending in large, curved claws...
List of Extinct Birds in New Zealand
WebsiteA sadly long list!
Moa
WebsiteAll you ever wanted to know about...
More birds slipping towards extinction
WebsiteBirdLife International's annual evaluation of how the world’s bird species are faring shows that the total number considered to be threatened with extinction is now 1,212, which when combined with the number of near threatened species gives a total of exactly 2,000 species in trouble – more than a fifth of the planet’s remaining 9,775 species. Of the species currently in trouble, 179 are now categorised as Critically Endangered, the highest level of threat...
Naturalis extinct birds
WebsiteMore than ten million natural history objects have been brought together since the foundation, in 1820, of the Dutch National Museum of Natural History Naturalis. As an important part of this ‘biodiversity archive’ the museum cherishes 250.000 birds (skins, skeletons, nests and eggs)...
Tragedy of the Dodo
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