Hawaiian birds: Lessons from a rediscovered avifauna

Auk

Volumn 120, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 953-960

  Slikas, Beth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVIFAUNA; BONE; EVOLUTION; EXTINCTION; FOSSIL;

HAWAIIAN ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN;

ANSER; AVES; HAWAIIA; NESOCHEN; RAPTORES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0242569263     PISSN: 00048038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/4090266     Document Type: Review

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