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Field Guide to the Birds of East Africa: Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi [Hardcover]

John Fanshawe (Author), Terry Stevenson (Author)
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T & AD Poyser October 2001
The Birds of East Africa is the first comprehensive field guide to the whole of this spectacular region. Small and compact, the guide covers a remarkable 1388 species, and three experienced artists have painstakingly prepared 287 plates with almost 3400 images illustrating all the plumages and major races likely to be encountered. Set opposite the plates are concise descriptive accounts dealing with identification, status, habits and voice, and range maps. Background sections include notes on how to use the species accounts, nomenclature, conservation, where to send records, and maps of protected and other important bird areas.

This book includes:
* An overview of East African birds
* East African environment
* Seasonality
* Plumage
* Species accounts
* Common alternative names
* Conservation and threatened species
* The local scene
* Glossary, references, and an index
Key Features
* Small and compact
* Comprehensive
* 1388 species
* All distinctive plumages and races illustrated
* 287 colour plates
* 3400 illustrations
* All species ranges mapped
* Key protected and important bird areas mapped


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"Stevenson and Fanshaw's new volume is the fourth guidebook to enter this market and is by far the best. The illustrations are clear, distinct and beautifully illustrated; distribution maps are located alongside each illustration, as is a short and succinct description, so no faffing about between illustration and text. The volume's hard cover makes it an excellent companion on tough birding safaris. I could not recommend this volume more warmly."
--Kim Gehab, an Amazon.co.uk Customer (November 2001)
"For birders with an interest in the region and those planning a trip, look no further. With the publication of this guide we have distilled into one book all the good elements of what has gone before but better...a super-easy guide to utilize. ...The plates are the book's tour de force and are simply outstanding. ...this is by far the best and most exciting guide available for anywhere in Africa..."
--Ken Arber in SURFBIRDS.COM (November 2001)
"The illustrations in this guide are of a very high standard and show the detail needed for field identification whilst remaining of an artistic quality that makes the book an attractive object as well as a useful one. ...The brief descriptions are excellent and the language fresh and punchy... a very fine field-guide indeed and sets a new standard for regional African guides."
--FATBIRDER.COM (2001)
"As soon as you open the book, you'll realise that the standard of artwork is exceptional. The text is also of an unusually high standard. ...If you are planning a trip to Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda or Burundi this is now unquestionably the most valuable book you can buy. And if you aren't yet planning a trip there this is the perfect book to get you dreaming."
--BIRDGUIDES.COM (2001)

About the Author

Terry Stevenson, Field Guides Tour Company, Nakuru, Kenya
John Fanshawe, BirdLife International, Cambridge, U.K.

Product Details

  • Hardcover: 600 pages
  • Publisher: Elsevier Science; 1 edition (October 2001)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0856610798
  • ISBN-13: 978-0856610790
  • Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.6 x 1.4 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 2.7 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (28 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,537,443 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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32 of 32 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Fabulous new East African bird book., December 28, 2001
This review is from: Field Guide to the Birds of East Africa: Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi (Hardcover)
After years of having one of the world's worst bird books, East Africa now has two of the best. The Zimmerman/Turner book on Kenya and Northern Tanzania, the work of 30 years, set a new standard of scholarship and illustration. This book draws on that one, but is even better for the tourist and field birder. It covers all of Uganda and Tanzania, as well as Rwanda and Burundi. It is smaller and lighter to carry. And the illustrations and their placement in related groups on the same page are simply outstanding. This is one of the best bird books in the world and will dominate the market for years to come.
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24 of 24 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Field Guide to the Birds of East Africa is superb!!, November 27, 2001
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This review is from: Field Guide to the Birds of East Africa: Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi (Hardcover)
I think I have all the guides to the birds of East Africa in the last 30 years, but this most recent by Terry Stevenson and John Fanshawe is certainly the most comprehensive, artistically excellent and usable. Ber van Perlo's Collins Illustrated Checklist "Birds of Eastern Africa" is smaller and lighterweight but no comparison, nor intended to be, in description or plate detail. This new volume, with a 2002(!) publication date has amongst the best plates and abbreviated descriptions, in my opinion, ever published in a comparable volume on birds. Artists John Gale and Brian Small are fabulous (Norman Arlott lacks their skills, but does his subjects justice as well). It is a exceedingly worthwhile complement to Dale Zimmerman's larger format "Birds of Kenya and northern Tanzania" and includes all of Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi as well. Don't miss this book!
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28 of 29 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars a good start - but a thorough review is in order, March 19, 2002
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J.J. Bouwman (Zeist, Netherlands) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Field Guide to the Birds of East Africa: Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi (Hardcover)
I used this field guide during my recent trip to Kenya and Uganda. Although it is by all means an excellent fieldguide I do have some remarks. A number of the plates contained errors, suggesting the artists didn't see these birds in the field. I realise it is virtually impossible for artists to see all species featured in a book such as this in the field, so that a lot of plates are drawn from skins. It is important however to use skins from the region itself, this may make a lot of difference. We came to the conclusion that for a number of species skins from west Africa were used. Especially the greenbuls had some misleading plates. For a number of species the Kenyan Zimmerman-book is probably better, although those plates lack in other respects.
In addition a number of the maps were incorrect, especially for Uganda.
Still, if you go to the region for birding, make sure to get this book, because it is definitely the best field guide around.
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Endemic to Africa, ostriches are huge flightless birds with small wings, massive legs and two large forward pointing toes. Read the first page
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spitted notes, widespread nominate race, face mask extending, nominate birds, yellow pectoral tufts, overgrown cultivation, imm duller, white forecrown, inhabiting forest edge, red breast band, narrow white wing bar, bushed grassland, yellow forecrown, superciliary stripes, acacia country, including forest edge, black forecrown, dry bush country, fringed upperparts, rufous hindneck, white supercilium, white face pattern, common passage migrant, moist bush, chipping notes
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East Africa, Semliki Forest, Albertine Rift, Lake Turkana, East Usambara Mts, Olive Thrush, Semliki Valley, Willow Warbler, Barn Swallow, Common Snipe, Eastern Paradise-Whydah, Egyptian Vulture, Fawn-coloured Lark, Greater Blue-eared Starling, Lake Victoria, Nyungwe Forest, Taita Hills, Tana River, Uluguru Mts, Water Thick-knee, Yellow-rumped Seedeater, Abyssinian Crimsonwing, Abyssinian Ground-Thrush, African Golden-breasted Bunting, African White-backed
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