ovenbird43
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For southern Africa, I suggest Birds of Southern Africa by Sinclair, Hockey, and Tarboton (Princeton, 2002)
For southern Africa, I suggest Birds of Southern Africa by Sinclair, Hockey, and Tarboton (Princeton, 2002)
This is just about to come out: Birds of Western Africa: Second Edition, by Nik Borrow and Ron Demey
I don't have the first edition (or any other field guides to this region), so I can't do any comparisons. But it's a standard-looking modern field guide, and looks pretty good to me. It's a bit thick for the number of species included, but the plates are relatively uncrowded, which isn't an altogether bad thing.
I guess Guide to the Mammals of Madagascar by Nick Garbutt is the one to get for Madagascar mammals?
This is just about to come out: Birds of Western Africa: Second Edition, by Nik Borrow and Ron Demey
I don't have the first edition (or any other field guides to this region), so I can't do any comparisons. But it's a standard-looking modern field guide, and looks pretty good to me. It's a bit thick for the number of species included, but the plates are relatively uncrowded, which isn't an altogether bad thing.
I presume Madagascar and the surroundings also go under Africa. So here is an addition:
Birds of the Indian Ocean Islands Madagascar-Mauritius-Réunion-Rodrigues-Seychelles-Comoros by Ian Sinclair and Olivier Langrand
Fully revised edition 2013, Struik Nature, Cape Town, South Africa
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For East Africa, my preferred book is Birds of East Africa by Stevenson and Fanshawe (Poyser).
I just got this book, and first impressions are ok (I have been using Birds of Africa South of the Sahara 2nd Ed.), I did get a bittaken aback by how dark some of the plates seem (for example the large eagles).
But my concern is that one of the plates (Plate 226: Drongos and Piapiac) has been published without the text to show what bird each illustration is meant to represent. 8 black birds on a page with no good way to connect them with the 5 birds described on the facing page.
Has the publisher addressed this issue anywhere?
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Looks to be a more of an academic work, status and distribution rather than a field guide, I don't see it replacing 'Borrow and Demey' any time soon?
A new second edition of this book is now scheduled for July 2017. That is, if there are not any more delays. It should long have been out by now.
Are there any guide books to DRC or Sudan, other than The Birds of Africa and HBW?