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HALLIDAY, TIM Vanishing Birds Their Natural History and ConservationSidgwick & Jackson, London, 1978. Hardcover, 296pp., 16 colour plates otherwise b&w illustrations. Page edges spotted slightly. Dustwrapper worn slightly along edges and corners. Otherwise, very good. At the end of the seventeenth century, the Dodo of Mauritius, a large flightless bird became extinct. This was the first recorded extinction of a bird species, and since then more than 130 species and races of birds have become 'as dead as a Dodo', while many others are now critically rare. While extinction is a natural part of the evolutionary pocess, the history of man's relationship with his fellow creatures is a melancholy one. This book, and its author, adopt a constructive approach to the problem. Dr. Halliday, a cohort of Professor NikoTinbergen, examines the ways in which birds have evolved, so as to identify what it is about some species that makes them particularly vulnerable to changes in their environment, and thus tragically susceptible to human influences. Apart from his biological perspective, the author's dual talent as an artist has resulted in his text being illustrated with his beautiful colour plates and line drawings. While this text was written in 1978, it is in no way dated in its science or message.
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