The Birds of Africa

  • The Birds of Africa
    The Birds of Africa
    By G. E. Shelley

    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

  • The Birds of Africa: The Malagasy Region. Volume VIII
    The Birds of Africa: The Malagasy Region. Volume VIII
    By Roger Safford

    "Universally recognised as by far the most authoritative work ever published on the subject, The Birds of Africa is a superb multi-contributor reference work, with encyclopaedic species texts, stunning paintings of all species and numerous ...

  • The Birds of Africa: Volume IV
    The Birds of Africa: Volume IV

    Densities of 6-7 pairs on l·6 km of river, 9-12 pairs on 2·5 km, and 13-14 pairs on 2·4 km, Ethiopia (Tyler and Ormerod ... Wing blackish, most remiges and coverts extremely narrowly edged white, but tertials and tertial coverts broadly ...

  • The Birds of Africa: Volume VI
    The Birds of Africa: Volume VI

    This is the sixth volume in the Birds of Africa series, covering the rich avifauna of the world's second largest continent.

  • The Birds of Africa: Volume VII
    The Birds of Africa: Volume VII

    Socotra Sparrow. Moineau de Socotra. Passer insularis Sclater and Hartlaub, 1881. Proc. Zool. Soc. London, p. 169; Socotra. Forms a superspecies with P. motitensis, P. rufocinctus, P. shelleyi, P. cordofanicus and P. iagoensis.

  • The Birds of Africa: Volume II
    The Birds of Africa: Volume II

    Ibis 112, 199-208. Pearson, D. J. and Stevenson, G. (1980). A survey of wintering waders in the southern part of the Kenya rift valley. Scopus 4, 59-63. Pienkowski, M. W. (Ed.) (1975). Studies of coastal birds and wetlands in Morocco, ...

  • The Birds of Africa: Volume I
    The Birds of Africa: Volume I

    May either be permanent resident (e.g. some parts of Transvaal, Somalia and Kenya Rift Valley) or nomadic, appearing at irregular intervals and in varying numbers, to breed and then move away.

  • The Birds of Africa
    The Birds of Africa
    By Leslie Brown

    Non-breeding visitors are treated more briefly. The text concentrates on the bird's status and biology while in Africa. Range maps are given for each bird and super species maps are shown where appropriate.

  • The Birds of Africa: Volume V
    The Birds of Africa: Volume V

    This is the fifth volume in the Birds of Africa series, covering the rich avifauna of the world's second largest continent. Volume V treats the thrushes, warblers and flycatchers.

  • The Birds of Africa
    The Birds of Africa
    By Leslie Brown, Kenneth B. Newman

    This volume is the first of a set of seven which, when complete, will cover the entire avifauna of Africa, one of the most varied and interesting in the world.

  • The Birds of Africa
    The Birds of Africa

    This is the fourth volume in the Birds of Africa series, covering the rich avifauna of the world's second largest continent. Volume IV covers the first 12 families of the passerines.

  • The Birds of Africa
    The Birds of Africa
    By Hilary Fry

    Full bibliographies, acoustic references, and indexes complete this scholarly work of reference. This seventh and final volume in the series deals comprehensively with 309 species.