Evolution, Ecology, Conservation and Management of Hawaiian Birds: a Vanishing Avifauna

Abstract

This volume from the Cooper Ornithological Society is the 22nd instalment in the Studies in Avian Biology series, which is dedicated to ornithological papers of too great a length for publication in The Condor journal. Evolution, Ecology and Conservation Biology are themselves very separate streams, each encompassing a diverse spectrum of application. However, they are brought together here, in a synthesis addressing an appalling record of extinction in the endemic birds of the Hawaiian Islands, which as a group, are among the world leaders in their tally of historically extinct and currently endangered bird species (King 1985).