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Author Lewis, Daniel, 1959- author.

Title Belonging on an island : birds, extinction, and evolution in Hawaiʻi / Daniel Lewis
Published New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2018]
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Description 1 online resource (xi, 306 pages) : illustrations
Contents Introduction -- Sitting ducks : extinction, humans, and birds in the pre-European contact era -- Counting extinction : observing and surveying the Kauaʻi ʻŌʻō and Hawaiian forest bird habitat -- Overcoming extinction : collectors, stewardship, and the Palila -- Becoming endemic : the White-eye, the territorial government, the Hui Manu, and introduced species -- Epilogue
Summary "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'ō, 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 Hawaìi and the naturalists and environmentalists who did extraordinary work."--Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed April 10, 2018)
Subject Birds -- Hawaii
Birds -- Extinction -- Hawaii
Birds -- Evolution -- Hawaii
Island ecology.
Introduced organisms.
NATURE -- Animals -- Birds.
NATURE -- Birdwatching Guides.
SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Zoology -- Ornithology.
Birds
Birds -- Evolution
Birds -- Extinction
Introduced organisms
Island ecology
Hawaii
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780300235463
0300235461