Travellers' Wildlife Guides Hawaii,9781566566131

Travellers' Wildlife Guides Hawaii

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ISBN13: 9781566566131
ISBN10: 1566566134
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2005-10-30
Publisher(s): Interlink Pub Group Inc
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Summary

Travellers to Hawaii go for sun, sand, and surf, but increasingly leave the beach for part of their stay to explore the islands' incredible natural attractions: stunning mountain scenery, wonderful hiking trails, glimpses of birds-many of them highly endangered-that occur nowhere else on earth. This book contains all the information you need to find, identify, and learn about the region's magnificent animal life. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Les Beletsky is a professional wildlife biologist and university zoology teacher

Table of Contents

Preface ix
Ecotourism and Hawaii
1(7)
Why Visit Hawaii?
1(1)
Hawaiian Tourism and Ecotourism
2(1)
Ecotourism and Its Importance
3(2)
How Ecotourism Helps
5(1)
Ecotravel Ethics
6(2)
Hawaii: Natural History, Geography, and Climate
8(13)
Essentials of Hawaiian Natural History (or, What Every Ecotraveller Should Know About the Place)
8(4)
The Main Hawaiian Islands: Geography and Features
12(6)
Big Island
14(1)
Kauai
15(1)
Maui
16(1)
Molokai
17(1)
Oahu
17(1)
Climate and Best Time to Visit
18(1)
Midway Atoll
19(2)
Habitats and Common Vegetation
21(8)
Sarah Reichard
Remoteness
22(1)
Geology
22(1)
Climatic Extremes
23(1)
Topography
23(1)
Vegetation Types
23(3)
Environmental Close-up 1. Lava Flows: When Volcanoes Alter the Real Estate Market
26(3)
Matti Rossi
Parks, Preserves, and Getting Around
29(23)
Getting Around in Hawaii
29(2)
Descriptions of Parks, Preserves, and Other Eco-sites
31(21)
Big Island
31(5)
Kauai
36(5)
Maui
41(3)
Molokai
44(3)
Oahu
47(5)
Environmental Threats and Conservation
52(18)
Environmental Threats
52(7)
Background
52(2)
Causes of Extinctions
54(5)
Conservation Programs
59(8)
Hawaiian Eco-history
59(1)
Conservation in Practice
60(5)
The Future
65(2)
Environmental Close-up 2. Endemism: Political System Advocating the End of the World, or Something More Interesting?
67(3)
How to Use This Book: Ecology and Natural History
70(9)
What is Natural History?
70(1)
What is Ecology and What Are Ecological Interactions?
70(2)
How to Use This Book
72(7)
Information in the Family Profiles
72(5)
Information in the Color Plate Sections
77(2)
Amphibians and Reptiles
79(26)
Amphibians and Reptiles of Hawaii
79(1)
Group Characteristics
80(4)
Amphibians
80(1)
Reptiles
81(3)
Seeing Amphibians and Reptiles in Hawaii
84(1)
Family Profiles
84(16)
Toads
84(3)
True Frogs
87(2)
Poison-dart Frogs
89(1)
Chameleons
90(1)
Anolis Lizards
91(2)
Skinks
93(2)
Geckos
95(2)
Turtles
97(3)
Environmental Close-up 3. Hawaii: The Snake-less Society, and How it Got That Way
100(5)
Birds
105(58)
Introduction
106(1)
General Characteristics and Classification of Birds
106(1)
Features of Hawaiian Birds
107(3)
Types of Birds
107(1)
Of Seabirds and Land Birds, Natives and Aliens
108(1)
Nectar-eaters: the Hawaiian Honeycreepers
109(1)
Seeing Birds in Hawaii
110(1)
Family Profiles
111(47)
Seabirds I: Albatrosses and other Tube-nosed Seabirds
111(3)
Seabirds II: Pelican Allies (Boobies, Tropicbirds, Frigatebird)
114(3)
Seabirds III: Gulls and Terns
117(2)
Marsh, Stream, and Water Birds
119(3)
Ducks, Geese, and a Grebe
122(3)
Raptors
125(4)
Chicken-like Birds (Pheasants, Quail, and Turkey)
129(2)
Shorebirds
131(4)
Pigeons
135(2)
Parrots
137(1)
Crow, Thrushes, and Elepaio
138(4)
Mocker, Myna, Skylark, and Meadowlark
142(3)
White-eye, Bush-warbler, and Babblers
145(2)
Cardinals and Bulbuls
147(2)
Fringillid Finches (House Finch, Canaries) and House Sparrow
149(2)
Hawaiian Honeycreepers
151(6)
Estrildid Finches: Waxbills and Mannikins
157(1)
Environmental Close-up 4. Restoring Palila and other Hawaiian
Forest Birds: Understanding Problems and Developing Solutions
158(5)
Paul Banko
Mammals
163(24)
Mammals of Hawaii
163(1)
Characteristics of Mammals
164(1)
Seeing Mammals in Hawaii
165(1)
Family Profiles
166(18)
Bats, the Flying Mammals
166(3)
Rodents, the Gnawing Undesirables
169(3)
Mongooses
172(2)
Ungulates, the Hoofed Mammals
174(3)
Seals
177(2)
Whales and Dolphins
179(5)
Environmental Close-up 5. Spinners in Paradise: Sleepy Dolphins and Pesky People
184(3)
Bernd Wursig
Underwater Hawaii
187(10)
Richard Francis
Introduction
187(2)
Habitats
189(1)
Invertebrate Life
190(1)
Vertebrate Life
191(6)
Insects and Other Arthropods
197(6)
Pete Oboyski
Origins
197(1)
Biodiversity
198(1)
Adaptation
199(1)
Charismatic Microfauna (or, Pretty Little Bugs and Spiders)
199(1)
Butterflies
200(1)
Alien Insects
201(1)
Conservation
202(1)
References and Additional Reading 203(2)
Habitat Photos 205(10)
Identification Plates 215(170)
Species Index 385(12)
General Index 397

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