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Book List
- The Lost World of the Moa by Trevor Worthy and Richard Holdaway
- 2002, Indiana University Press, ISBN 0 253340349, 718pp.
The complete reference for anyone interested in New Zealand’s
extinct birds. Written by the two leading figures in the field, it's
a feast of scientific information, including many otherwise unavailable
technical details about habitat, body size, biology, and extinction.
Should be on the shelf of all ornithologists.
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- Prodigious Birds by Atholl Anderson
- 1989, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0521352096, 238pp.
An important book, although becoming a little out-of-date. Has
a good outline of systematics and biology of moa but focusses particularly
on the archaeology of kill sites, hunting, and processing, concluding
with a discussion of extinction.
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- Moas: Lost Giants of New Zealand by Beverley McCulloch
- 1992, HarperCollins New Zealand, ISBN 186950061X, 64pp.
An excellent general guide for younger readers, liberally illustrated
by Geoffrey Cox. Cox’s reconstructions are quite different from
most other, but I think they bring the birds to life. The book is brief
but up-to-date.
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- New Zealand’s Extinct Birds by Brian Gill and Paul Martinson
- 1991, Random Century New Zealand, ISBN 1869411250, 110pp.
This attractive coffee-table book is a nice overview, but confusingly
mixes fossil birds millions of years old with more recent extinctions.
Martinson’s paintings are beautiful, but not very accurate.
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