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Books on African Birds
Including Madagascar & other Indian Ocean Islands
Phil Hockey, WJR Dean & PG Ryan. Roberts
Birds of Southern Africa. 1296 pages. Russell Friedman
Books. 7th edition, 2006?
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Françoise Dowsett-Lemaire & Robert J. Dowsett.
The Birds of Malawi: An Atlas and Handbook. 556 pages. 16
color photographic plates. Tauraco Press 2006.
UK |
DE |
FR |
Callan Cohen, Claire Spottiswoode & Jonathan
Rossouw. Southern African Birdfinder. Where to find 1400
bird species in southern Africa and Madagascar. 448 pages.
Struik 2006.
UK |
DE |
FR |
CA |
Ian
Sinclair & Pete Ryan. Assisted by Patrice Christy & Phil Hockey.
Birds of Africa South of the Sahara: A complete illustrated
field guide to the birds south of the Sahara. Illustrated by
Norman Arlott, Peter Hayman & Alan Harris. Struik & Princeton
University Press 2003.
Details. 760 pages. Covers 2105 species with more than 2000
images on 359 plates. The illustrations of southern birds are
borrowed from the latest SASOL guide. This essential book for
any world birder definitely will win a WorldTwitch 2003 Book
Award. For home study, it provides instant access to all African
species, with acceptable to excellent color plates, range maps,
and essential text. In the field, it fills in the many gaps
between the regions with fine modern field guides. Thus, Jon
Hornbuckle writes that he found it quite useful in Zambia.
US |
UK |
Important Bird Areas in Africa and its
Associated Islands: Priority sites for conservation. L.D.C.
Fishpool & M.I. Evans (eds.) BirdLife Conservation Series No.
11. Information on birds at 1,228 sites in 58 countries. 1,160
pages. 16 pages of color habitat photos. NatureBureau and
BirdLife International. 2001.
US |
UK |
Brian Finch, Terry Stevenson & John Fanshawe.
East African Bird Sounds. CD-ROM. Poyser. Forthcoming
2006?
US |
UK |
Nik
Borrow & Ron Demey. A Guide to the Birds of Western Africa.
The first comprehensive field guide to the birds of West
Africa. 147 colour plates depicting over 1200 species. 816
pages. Helm & Princeton University Press 2002.
US |
UK - PUP |
UK - Helm |
Nik Borrow & Ron Demey. Birds of Western
Africa. Reduced, paperback field version of the authors'
West Africa guide. 512 pages. Helm & Princeton University Press
2004.
US |
UK |
DE |
FR |
CA |
Ber van Perlo. Collins Illustrated
Checklist: Birds of Western & Central Africa. HarperCollins
& Princeton University Press. 400 pages. 2003.
US |
UK |
Dale
A. Zimmerman, Donald A. Turner, David J. Pearson & Ian Willis.
Birds of Kenya & Northern Tanzania. Unabridged edition:
752 pages. Christopher Helm & Princeton University Press, 1996.
US |
UK |
Dale A. Zimmerman, Donald A. Turner, David J.
Pearson & Ian Willis. Field Guide to the Birds of Kenya &
Northern Tanzania. Compact version: 576 pages. Christopher
Helm & Princeton University Press, 1999.
US |
UK |
Iain Robertson. Field Guide to the Birds of
North-East Africa. (Ethiopia, Eritrea, Somalia & Sudan.) A&C
Black. Forthcoming.
US |
UK |
Ian Sinclair, Phil Hockey & Warwick Tarboton.
Illustrated by Peter Hayman & Norman Arlott. SASOL Birds of
Southern Africa. 464 pages. Struik & Princeton University
Press. 3d Edition, 2002. Covers 31 species not in the
second edition.
US |
UK |
The Larger Illustrated Guide to the Birds of
Southern Africa. (SASOL). Large paper version of the second
edition of SASOL. (A large paper version of the new third
edition presumably will be forthcoming.) The extra size and
weight are quite a tolerable trade-off for the larger type and
illustrations. Struik, 1996. 448 pages.
US |
UK |
Dylan R. Aspinwall & Carl Beel. Field Guide
to Zambian Birds not found in Southern Africa. Zambian
Ornithological Society, 1998. 106 pages. Essential guide for use
in Zambia. Available from
WildSounds. |
Kenneth Newman. Newman's Birds of Southern
Africa. 512 pages. Struik. 9th (?) Edition, 2002. While
overall I prefer the SASOL guide, particularly the large paper
edition, Newman's text and plates are often better. Both books
are field guides and lack the natural history detail of Roberts,
now between editions and undergoing a major revision.
US |
UK |
G. Stuart Keith, Emil
Urban, Hilary Fry, et al. The Birds of Africa. A&C Black
and Princeton University Press. Essential reference!
Vol 7 (2004):
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Vol 6 (2000):
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UK
Vol 5 (1997):
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UK
Vol 4 (1992):
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UK
Vol 3 (1988):
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UK
Vol 2 (1986):
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UK
Vol 1 (1982):
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UK |
Michel Thévenot, Rae Vernon & Patrick Bergier.
The Birds of Morocco.
BOU
Checklist Series: 21. 600+ pages. 32 colour plates. 2002. |
Patrick & Fedora Bergier. A
Birdwatcher's Guide to Morocco. 72 pages. Prion, 1990.
US |
UK |
Ron Ward. Birdwatcher's Guide to the Gambia.
116 pages. 28 maps. 26 illustrations. Prion, 1994.
US |
UK |
Jonathan Rossouw & Marco
Sacchi. Where to Watch Birds in Uganda. 110 pages. Uganda
Tourist Board, 1998. Available from
African Bird Club Sales. |
John Ash, John Miskell & Martin Woodcock
(illustrator). Birds of Somalia. Pica Press &
Yale University Press, 1998. 336 pages.
US |
UK |
Ber van Perlo. Collins Illustrated
Checklist: Birds of Eastern Africa. HarperCollins 1995 &
Princeton University Press 2001.
US |
UK |
Alan & Meg Kemp. Birds of Prey of Africa and
its Islands. (SASOL). Illustrations by Peter Hayman plus
additional color photos. Coverage of more than 100 species of
diurnal raptors and 40 species of owls from Africa, Madagascar,
the Comoros, Mascarenes, Seychelles and São Tomé/Príncipe, some
of which are very poorly known. New Holland 1998. 347 pages.
US |
UK |
Callan Cohen & Claire Spottiswoode.
Essential Birding - Western South Africa. 136 pages. Struik,
2000.
US |
UK |
Keith N. Barnes (ed.) Important Bird Areas
of Southern Africa. 394 pages. BirdLife South Africa, 1998.
US |
UK |
Hugh Chittenden. Top Birding Spots in
Southern Africa. Describes 127 birding spots. Maps &
checklists. 420 pages. Southern Book Publishers, 1992.
US |
William Clark & Robert Davies. Field Guide
to the Raptors of Africa. Poyser 2008?
US |
UK |
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FR |
CA |
Warwick Tarboton & Rudy Erasmus. Owls &
Owling in Southern Africa. (SASOL). Struik 1998. 88 pages.
Color photos.
US |
UK |
Kenneth Newman, Nigel Johnston-Stewart & Bob
Medland. Birds of Malawi. 14 color plates with
facing-plate text and range maps. Annotated checklist with page
references to Newman's Birds of Southern Africa. Southern
Book Publishers, 1992.
US |
Ian Sinclair & Ian Whyte. Field Guide to the
Birds of the Kruger National Park. 251 pages. More than 570
color photos. Detailed status of each species in Kruger NP with
range maps. Struik, 1991.
US |
UK |
Kenneth Newman, Derek Solomon, David Johnson &
Alex Masterson. LBJs: Little Brown Jobs Made Easier. 136
pages. 11 color plates. Drawings of weaver nests, cisticola
flight patterns and habitat. A useful study guide limited to
"nondescript" passerines. Southern Book Publishing 1998.
US |
UK |
Kenneth Newman & Derek Solomon. Look-Alike
Birds. Comparative large black-and-white drawings of
confusing species in South Africa with Peterson arrows pointing
to key field marks. Southern Book Publishers 1994. 97 pages.
US |
Kenneth Newman & Derek Solomon. Confusing
Birds: 193 Look-alike Species. Essentially an updated
edition of the above, but not necessarily better, as the
drawings now are quite small. 16 color plates. 80 pages.
Southern Book Publishers, 1998.
US |
UK |
Peter Ginn, Peter le S. Milstein & Geoff
McIlleron (Editors). The Complete Book of Southern African
Birds. Large format, 760 pages. More than 1,000 color
photographs. Struik, 1990.
US |
UK |
Warwick Tarburton. Guide to the Nests & Eggs
of Southern African Birds. 400 pages. Struik. April 2001.
US |
UK |
Ber van Perlo. Collins Illustrated
Checklist: Birds of Southern Africa. HarperCollins, 1999 &
Princeton University Press 2001.
US |
UK |
Ian Sinclair & Olivier Langrand. Illustrated by
Peter Hayman, Norman Arlott, Ian Lewington & Hilary Burn.
Birds of the Indian Ocean Islands: Madagascar, Mauritius,
Réunion, Rodrigues, the Seychelles and the Comoros. The
field guide to carry in Madagascar and the other Indian Ocean
islands. 184 pages. Struik, 1998.
US |
UK |
Peter Morris & Mark Andrews. Birds of
Madagascar: A Photographic Guide. Pica Press &
Yale University Press, 1998. 224 pages.
US |
UK |
Olivier Langrand, Vincent Bretagnolle
(illustrator). Guide to the Birds of Madagascar.
Yale University Press, 1990. 456 pages.
US |
UK |
Adrian Skerrett, Ian Bullock, Tony Disley
(Illustrator). Field Guide to the Birds of the Seychelles.
WorldTwitch
2001 Best Bird Book Award. Christopher Helm & Princeton
University Press. 320 pages. 53 color plates. 2001.
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UK |
Rob Little, Tim Crowe, Simon Barlow.
Gamebirds of Southern Africa. 128 pages. Struik 2000.
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UK |
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