Extinct Birds of Hawai’i

Description

Author: Walther, Michael

Publisher: Mutual Publishing (Honolulu, HI)

Pub Date: 2016

Binding: Hardcover

Condition:  Book:  Good.  Binding tight.  No marks, tears, bends or folds.  Printed boards.  Very light edge and corner wear.  Dust Jacket: Fair.  NOT price clipped (no price indicated on flap, but listed above bar code/ISBN on lower rear cover).  Upper edges, front and rear are creased, bent (dust jacket not replaced correctly).

Notes: Arranged by island.  Includes endangered bird species and a chart of  “World Bird Extinctions in the Last 700 Years.”  Birds described historically, from fossils, museum specimens.  Just like we imagine how dinosaurs looked, the same goes for these birds.  Full color paintings of the birds (with a tip of the hat to Audobon).  From the library of the late environmentalist Dave Foreman.