The Birds of Africa
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- "The Birds of Africa" is also a five-volume handbook by George Ernest Shelley, published 1896-1912.
Author | C. Hilary Fry, Stuart Keith, Emil Urban |
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Illustrator | Martin Woodcock |
Publisher | Academic Press |
Publication date | 1982 - 2013 |
The Birds of Africa is an eight-volume ornithological handbook. Its authors/editors are C. Hilary Fry, Stuart Keith and Emil Urban, and each volume contains colour plates painted by Martin Woodcock [1]
Content[edit]
It covers all breeding species in full, with details of range, status, description, voice, general habits and breeding; non-breeding visitors are treated more briefly, with emphasis on their status and behaviour whilst in Africa.
Volumes[edit]
The series contained the following volumes:
- Ostriches to Falcons, published in 1982 521 pp.
- Gamebirds to Pigeons, published in 1986 552 pp. + 32 color plates
- Parrots to Woodpeckers, published in 1988 611 pp. + 32 color plates
- Broadbills to Chats, published in 1992 609 pp. + 32 color plates
- Thrushes to Puffback Flycatchers, published in 1997 669 pp. + 32color plates
- Picathartes to Oxpeckers, published in 2000 724 pp. + 36 color plates
- Sparrows to Buntings, published in 2004 666 pp.
- The Malagasy Region, published 2013 1024 pp.
References[edit]
- ^ C Hillary, Fry; Emil K, Urban; Stuart, Keith; Roger, Safford; Frank, Hawkins (2014). The Birds of Africa (Hardback ed.). A & C Black. ISBN 9781408190609. Retrieved 24 March 2020.