The Birds of Africa

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"The Birds of Africa" is also a five-volume handbook by George Ernest Shelley, published 1896-1912.

The Birds of Africa is an eight-volume ornithological handbook. Its authors/editors are C. Hilary Fry, Stuart Keith and Emil Urban, and each volume contains colour plates painted by Martin Woodcock ^[1]

Content[]

It covers all breeding species in full, with details of range, status, description, voice, general habits and breeding; non-breeding visitors are treated more briefly, with emphasis on their status and behaviour whilst in Africa.

Volumes[]

The series contained the following volumes:

1. Ostriches to Falcons, published in 1982 521 pp.
2. Gamebirds to Pigeons, published in 1986 552 pp. + 32 color plates
3. Parrots to Woodpeckers, published in 1988 611 pp. + 32 color plates
4. Broadbills to Chats, published in 1992 609 pp. + 32 color plates
5. Thrushes to Puffback Flycatchers, published in 1997 669 pp. + 32color plates
6. Picathartes to Oxpeckers, published in 2000 724 pp. + 36 color plates
7. Sparrows to Buntings, published in 2004 666 pp.
8. The Malagasy Region, published 2013 1024 pp.

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