Birds of the Kimbe Bay Area, West New Britain, Papua New Guinea
- 1 August 1983
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Ornithological Applications
- Vol. 85 (3) , 297-304
- https://doi.org/10.2307/1367064
Abstract
Observations of birds in the Kimbe Bay area of west New Britain are reported and compared to species seen with those collected by the Whitney South Sea Expedition (1932) in the same area. Species (61), including 44 of the 83 spp. seen or collected previously, were identified. Avifaunal changes in the much-disturbed habitats were minimal, possibly due to the flexibility inherent in the species that were able to colonize New Britain. Birds restricted to undisturbed forest, including many of the endemic species of presumably longer residence on the island, do not appear able to adapt to the disturbed areas and are the vulnerable species when primary forest is destroyed.This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
- Birds on islands in the sky: Origin of the montane avifauna of Northern MelanesiaProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 1976
- Birds of the Plesyumi Area, Central New BritainOrnithological Applications, 1976