Birds of the Horn of Africa : Ethiopia, Eritrea, Djibouti, Somalia, Socotra

Birds of the Horn of Africa : Ethiopia, Eritrea, Djibouti, Somalia, Socotra / Nigel Redman, Terry Stevenson and John Fanshawe ; with contributions from Nik Borrow and Brian Finch ; illustrated by John Gale and Brian Small.

Annotation The Horn of Africa has the highest endemism of any region in Africa, and around 70 species are found nowhere else in the world. Many of these are confined to the isolated highlands of Ethiopia and Eritrea, but a large number of larks specialise in the arid parts of Somalia and adjoining e...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Redman, Nigel
Other Authors: Stevenson, Terry, Fanshawe, John, Borrow, Nik, Small, Brian E., 1959-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Christopher Helm, 2009.
Series:Helm field guides.
Subjects:
Birds > Horn of Africa.
Birds > Horn of Africa > Identification.
Birds > Horn of Africa > Geographical distribution.
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Zoology > Ornithology.
NATURE > Birdwatching Guides.
NATURE > Animals > Birds.
Birds
Birds > Geographical distribution
Vögel
Africa > Horn of Africa
Ostafrika
Field guides
Bestimmungsbuch.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; INTRODUCTION; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; HOW TO USE THIS BOOK; The plates; Species accounts; Abbreviations; Maps; Taxonomy and nomenclature; BIRD IDENTIFICATION; Learning to identify birds; Individual variation; Moult; BIRD TOPOGRAPHY; GLOSSARY; GEOGRAPHY, CLIMATE AND HABITATS; IMPORTANT BIRD AREAS; ORGANISATIONS AND WEBSITES; SPECIES ACCOUNTS; PLATE 1: OSTRICHES; PLATE 2: ALBATROSSES AND PETRELS; PLATE 3: SHEARWATERS AND PETRELS; PLATE 4: STORM-PETRELS; PLATE 5: TROPICBIRDS AND FRIGATEBIRDS; PLATE 6: BOOBIES; PLATE 7: PELICANS AND GREBES.
  • Plate 8: cormorants, darter and finfootplate 9: bitterns and night herons; plate 10: smaller herons; plate 11: egrets; plate 12: large herons; plate 13: hamerkop and mainly white storks; plate 14: mainly black storks; plate 15: giant storks and shoebill; plate 16: ibises; plate 17: spoonbills and flamingos; plate 18: large resident waterfowl; plate 19: whistling ducks, pygmy-geese and shelducks; plate 20: other resident waterfowl; plate 21: resident and migrant dabbling ducks; plate 22: migrant dabbling ducks; plate 23: diving ducks; plate 24: kites and secretarybird.
  • Plate 25: fish-eating raptors and lammergeierplate 26: solitary vultures; plate 27: large plains vultures; plate 28: snake eagles; plate 29: harriers; plate 30: chanting goshawks and lizard buzzard; plate 31: open country sparrowhawks; plate 32: woodland and forest sparrowhawks; plate 33: woodland and forest hawks; plate 34: honey-buzzards and buzzards; plate 35: buzzards; plate 36: large brown eagles i; plate 37: large brown eagles ii; plate 38: hawk-eagles; plate 39: atypical eagles and harrier-hawk; plate 40: large eagles; plate 41: brown kestrels; plate 42: grey falcons and pygmy falcon.
  • Plate 43: medium-sized dark falconsplate 44: medium and large dark falcons; plate 45: large falcons; plate 46: guineafowl and smaller gambirds; plate 47: montane francolins; plate 48: red-winged and savanna francolins; plate 49: quails and buttonquail; plate 50: flufftails and black crake; plate 51: crakes; plate 52: rails and gallinules; plate 53: coots and moorhens; plate 54: cranes; plate 55: bustards i; plate 56: bustards ii; plate 57: jacanas, painted-snipe and phalaropes; plate 58: large black and white shorebirds; plate 59: thick-knees; plate 60: coursers.
  • Plate 61: pratincoles and egyptian ploverplate 62: smaller resident and migrant plovers; plate 63: smaller migrant plovers; plate 64: large wetland lapwings; plate 65: large dry country lapwings; plate 66: migrant plovers, ruff and turnstone; plate 67: sandpipers i; plate 68: sandpipers ii; plate 69: sandpipers iii; plate 70: sandpipers iv; plate 71: godwits and curlews; plate 72: snipes; plate 73: skuas; plate 74: smaller gulls; plate 75: large white-headed gulls; plate 76: dark-hooded gulls; plate 77: larger terns; plate 78: smaller terns; plate 79: pelagic terns and skimmer.

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