Birds of East Africa: Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Second edition
by Stevenson, Terry and John Fanshawe

Format: Paperback
Release Date: 11/4/2020
Code: 11437ED2
Condition: New
Product Details
Field Guide=A guide with illustrations or photographs for identificationBetween them, Terry Stevenson and John Fanshawe have more than 40 years' experience leading bird tours and conducting conservation work in East Africa. The region shelters a remarkable diversity of birds, including many seriously threatened species with small and vulnerable ranges. The region's birds form a constantly colorful, noisy, and highly extroverted part of the landscape. The book is sure to become an indispensable guide for anyone interested in studying or conserving birds in East Africa, as well as the many visitors who simply want to enjoy the sheer beauty of its birds.
- First comprehensive field guide to the countries of Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, and Burundi
- Covers 1,388 species, with 3,400 color images on 287 plates
- Concise species accounts facing the plates describe appearance, status, range, habits, and voice
- A color distribution map is given for each species
- Information on habitats, protected areas, and conservation issues
- The essential guide to the birds of this spectacular region
- 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
This is the American edition of book first published in the Helm Field Guides series. Though it has a different cover, the content is the same.
Reviews:
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
Table of Contents:
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.
Fairly significant changes from the first edition. 39 plates that were previously painted by Norman Arlott have been re-done by John Gale and Brian Small, and several other plates have also been altered.
ISBN: 9780691158259
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Year of Publication: 2020
Page Count: 640
Shipping Weight: 3.00 lb