British Ornithologists' Union checklists

The British Ornithologists' Union checklists are a series of books published by the British Ornithologists' Union (BOU) and (from 2003) jointly with the British Ornithologists' Club (BOC) documenting the status of bird in various regions of the world. Each volume contains a of bird species recorded in the area. In many cases the BOU checklist was the first such work for the country in question.

The Books[]

Volumes produced to date (year of publication in brackets) are:

1. The Birds of Libya by
2. The Birds of Zanzibar and Pemba by
3. The Birds of The Gambia (2nd edition, 1991) by
4. The Birds of Nigeria (2nd edition, 1994) by , , , , and
5. The Birds of the Serengeti National Park, Tanzania by
6. The Birds of Cyprus (2nd Edition, 1992) by and
7. The Birds of Wallacea (1986) by and
8. The Birds of the (1987) by
9. The Birds of Ghana by
10. The Birds of Sumatra (1988) by and Karel H Voous
11. The Birds of Sicily (1989) by and
12. The Birds of the Philippines (1991) by E. C. Dickinson, and
13. The Birds of the Cape Verde Islands (1995) by C. J. Hazevoet
14. The Birds of Togo (1996) by and
15. The Birds of St Lucia (1997) by Allan R. Keith
16. The Birds of St Helena (1998) by et al.
17. The Birds of Corsica (1999) by and
18. The Birds of Angola (2000) by
19. The Birds of the Cayman Islands (2000) by
20. The Birds of Hispaniola (2003) by , , and
21. The Birds of Morocco (2003) by , and
22. The Birds of the Gulf of Guinea (2006) by and
23. The Birds of the Borneo (2008) by
24. The Birds of the Barbados (2009) by , , , and

British Ornithologists' Union checklists

The Books[]

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