Guide to the Birds of Fiji and Western Polynesia

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Abstract

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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F. Recher, H. (2003). Guide to the Birds of Fiji and Western Polynesia. Pacific Conservation Biology, 9(3), 234. https://doi.org/10.1071/pc030234

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