Julian P. Hume
Julian Pender Hume (born March 3, 1960 ) is a British ornithologist and paleontologist .
Hume began as a self-taught draftsman of past life forms and from this interest studied paleontology (especially paleornithology ) at the University of Portsmouth and received his doctorate at the Natural History Museum in London. He is particularly concerned with human extinct birds on islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans . He also undertook field studies in Réunion , Mauritius , Rodrigues , the Seychelles and Comoros , South Africa , Indonesia and Hawaii .
He wrote a book about extinct birds and especially the dodo and its environment and also researched the dodo history historically. He was an advisor to the BBC and Channel 4 .
Fonts
- Extinct Birds , A. & C. Black, 2017 (second expanded edition)
- with Michael Walther Extinct Birds of Hawaii , Mutual Publishing, LLC, 2016. ISBN 1939487617
- with Michael P. Walters Extinct Birds , A. & C. Black, 2012
- The Dodo: from extinction to the fossil record , Geology Today 28, 2012, 147-151.
- with Anthony S. Cheke , A. McOran-Campbell How Owen 'stole' the Dodo: academic rivalry deposit in nineteenth century Mauritius , Historical Biology, 21, 2009, pp. 1-18
- with Anthony S. Cheke Lost Land of the Dodo , A. & C. Black Publ., 2008
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| SURNAME | Hume, Julian P. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hume, Julian Pender |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British ornithologist and paleontologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 3, 1960 |