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Title: Birds of Africa South of the Sahara by Ian Sinclair, Peter Ryan ISBN: 0-691-11815-9 Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr Pub. Date: 05 January, 2004 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A great ornithological overview
Comment: This is the first field guide type book that enables birdwatchers to get an overview of what mainland Africa has to offer as far as birds are concerned. The only area that is not covered by this book is North Africa. Most of that is included in every major field guide for Europe. So in the end, just a few species of northern Sudan escape coverage in this way. Compared with other books that claim to be field guides, this one is still relatively compact. Certainly so, when one takes into account the incredibly rich avifauna. A total of more than 2100 species are covered.
The color plates, as a whole, are excellent. As they were drawn by a number of artists, the general impression of "unity" is missing to some extent. But that is a problem of most modern field guides, as it would take too long - in an impatient market - for one artist to come up with a full set of good plates. The original South-African publisher Struik had the possibility to use many pictures from other field guides they publish. This may have been the only way to make such a monumental task feasible at all.
The texts and range maps are opposite the plates. This practical - and customary - arrangement necessitates rather short texts. However, they are very informative, providing the essentials for a field guide like field identification, habitat, abundance, and voice. The range maps do not show seasonal changes, but the texts compensate to some degree with brief hints.
For some areas of Africa, this is the first field guide available, whereas one would probably take recourse to the more compact regional books where they are available. At any rate, the publishers are to be congratulated to this most valuable and well organized book.
Rating: 1
Summary: for Spotting only, not for info about a bird
Comment: This is a survey, with a summary for each bird that is useful for bird-spotting. But it does not include details such as the life-cycle or habitat of the bird. Maybe it assumes you have other books for this. It covers such an enormous area and number of birds that these details had to be omitted.
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Title: Birds of Chile by Alvaro Jaramillo ISBN: 0691117403 Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr Pub. Date: 03 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Field Guide to the Birds of East Africa: Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi by Terry Stevenson, John Fanshawe ISBN: 0856610798 Publisher: Academic Press Pub. Date: October, 2001 List Price(USD): $40.00 |
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Title: Birds of Belize by H. Lee Jones, Dana Gardner ISBN: 0292701640 Publisher: Univ of Texas Press Pub. Date: 01 January, 2004 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
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Title: Birds of the West Indies by Herbert Raffaele, James W. Wiley, Orlando H. Garrido, Allan R. Keith, Janis I. Raffaele ISBN: 069111319X Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr Pub. Date: 02 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Birds of Western and Central Africa by Ber van Perlo ISBN: 0691007144 Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr Pub. Date: 06 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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