
TY  - JOUR
A1  - F. Recher, H. 
T1  - Guide to the Birds of Fiji and Western Polynesia
JF  - Pacific Conservation Biology
JO  - Pac. Conserv. Biol.
Y1  - 2003
VL  - 9
IS  - 3
SP  - 234
EP  - 234
KW  - 
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1071/PC030234 
N2  - FEW taxa have suffered at the expansion of humanity to the extent of the birds of Pacific Islands. Of the 130 or so birds to become extinct as a consequence of European exploration and colonization of the Pacific, most were island birds and most were flightless rails. Not so well understood is the scale of extinctions that accompanied pre-European colonization of the Pacific islands. Only now is the paleontological record revealing the richness of the lost Pacific avifauna much of which can be put on a par with the loss of moas from New Zealand and the Dodo Raphus cucullatus from Mauritius in the Indian Ocean. 
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