Field Guide to the Birds of East Africa: Kenya Tanzania Uganda Rwanda Burundi - Rilegato

Stevenson, Terry; Fanshawe, John

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0856610798 ISBN 13: 9780856610790

Casa editrice: A & C Black, 2001

Riassunto

The Birds of East Africa is the first comprehensive field guide to 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.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 species
* All distinctive plumages and races illustrated
* Color plates
* Illustrations
* All species ranges mapped
* Key protected and important bird areas mapped

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Recensione:

Winner of the 2001 Best Bird Book - Africa, Worldtwitch
"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. . . . 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, Surfbirds.com

"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

"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

"If East Africa is in your dreams, this should fill the bill."--Charles E. Keller, Indiana Audubon Quarterly

Contenuti:

List of Plates ix
Preface xv
Landscapes xv
Sites xviii
Seasonality xix
Taxonomy and names xix
Speicies accounts xx
Maps xxiii
Recent Records xxiv
Conservation xxvi
Additional reading xxvii
Acknowledgements xxvii
The species accounts with colour plates 1
Indexes 575
Important Bird Areas in East Africa 603

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• Editore: A & C Black
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0856610798
• ISBN 13: 9780856610790
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Disegnatore: Small Brian, Gale John, Arlott Norman