Lost Gold : ornithology of the subantarctic Auckland Islands

TePapa Press

2020

0995113661
9780995113664

English

Bib record

Ornithological discovery, exploration, and research on the Auckland Islands, New Zealand subantarctic -- Birds of the Auckland Islands, New Zealand subantarctic -- Subantarctic Adams Island and its birdlife -- Birds of Enderby Island, Auckland Islands, New Zealand subantarctic -- Shipwrecks and mollymawks : an account of Disappointment Island birds -- Introduced land mammals and their impacts on the birds of the subantarctic Auckland Islands -- Holocene bird bones found at the subantarctic Auckland Islands -- An extinct New Zealand raven (Corvus antipodum) on the Auckland Islands : an osteographic enigma? -- Population estimate for yellow-eyed penguins (Megadyptes antipodes) in the subantarctic Auckland Islands, New Zealand -- Development of aerial monitoring techniques to estimate population size of great albatrosses (Diomedea spp.) -- Variation in the bill colour of the white-capped mollymawk (Thalassarche cauta steadi) -- Population trends of light-mantled sooty albatross (Phoebetria palpebrata) at Adams Island and trials of ground, boat, and aerial methods for population estimates -- First northern giant petrel (Macronectes halli) breeding population survey and estimate for the Auckland Islands, New Zealand -- Year-round distribution, breeding cycle, and activity of white-headed petrels (Pterodroma lessonii) nesting on Adams Island, Auckland Islands -- White-chinned petrel (Procellaria aequinoctialis) burrow density, occupancy, and population size at the Auckland Islands -- Genetic analyses reveal an unexpected refugial population of subantarctic snipe (Coenocorypha aucklandica) -- Macquarie Island shags (Leucocarbo purpurascens) at the Auckland Islands : an addition to the New Zealand list -- First record of South Polar skua (Catharacta maccormicki) from New Zealand, Auckland Islands, March 1904 -- Endemic is good, introduced is boring? : biases in bird reporting rates at the Auckland Islands.

Dr Colin Miskelly is an ornithologist with broad interests, including conservation ecology, biogeography, and the history of science. Employed as a curator of vertebrates at Te Papa since 2010, Colin previously worked for the New Zealand Department of Conservation as a scientist and manager.
Dr Craig Symes has a broad ornithological interest, with a focus, until recently, on Afrotropical birds. As an Associate Professor at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, much of his research focused on bird communities, bird movements and migrations, bird diets and community ecology, parrot biology and conservation, urban bird communities, and bird-plant mutualisms focused on pollination in the genus Aloe. He is currently a science teacher in Rotorua, New Zealand.

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