Creepers

The Hawaiian Honeycreepers: Bird Families of the World (Bird Families of the World) (Book)

Book Description
This book is the most up to date work on Honeycreepers, covering the life history, relationships, and biology of the birds. The Honeycreepers, with their bright colouration and canary-like songs, are famed for their unique evolutionary history as a geographically isolated group that has undergone a spectacular burst of adaptions to the islands of the Hawaiian archipelago.

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Synopsis
The Hawaiian Honeycreepers are typified by nectar feeding, their bright colouration and canary-like songs. They are considered one of the finest examples of adaptive radiation, even more diverse than Darwin's Galapagos finches, as a wide array of different species has evolved in all the different niches provided by the Hawaiian archipelago. The book should therefore be of interest to evolutionary biologists and ecologists as well as professional ornithologists and amateur bird watchers. It is divided into two main sections. Part one is an overview of the Hawaiian Honeycreeper evolution and natural history and part two comprises accounts of each species.