British Ornithologists' Union checklists

Last updated March 16, 2019

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

The British Ornithologists' Union (BOU) aims to encourage the study of birds ("ornithology") in Britain, Europe and around the world, in order to understand their biology and to aid their conservation. The BOU was founded in 1858 by Professor Alfred Newton, Henry Baker Tristram and other scientists. Its quarterly journal, Ibis, has been published since 1859.

The British Ornithologists' Club (BOC) aims to promote discussion between members and others interested in ornithology, and to facilitate the dissemination of scientific information concerned with ornithology. The BOC has a special interest in avian systematics, taxonomy and distribution.

Birds, also known as Aves, are a group of endothermic vertebrates, characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a strong yet lightweight skeleton. Birds live worldwide and range in size from the 5 cm (2 in) bee hummingbird to the 2.75 m (9 ft) ostrich. They rank as the world's most numerically-successful class of tetrapods, with approximately ten thousand living species, more than half of these being passerines, sometimes known as perching birds. Birds have wings which are more or less developed depending on the species; the only known groups without wings are the extinct moa and elephant birds. Wings, which evolved from forelimbs, gave birds the ability to fly, although further evolution has led to the loss of flight in flightless birds, including ratites, penguins, and diverse endemic island species of birds. The digestive and respiratory systems of birds are also uniquely adapted for flight. Some bird species of aquatic environments, particularly seabirds and some waterbirds, have further evolved for swimming.

The Books

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

1. The Birds of Libya by G. Bundy
2. The Birds of Zanzibar and Pemba by R. H. Pakenham
3. The Birds of The Gambia (2nd edition, 1991) by M. E. J. Gore
4. The Birds of Nigeria (2nd edition, 1994) by J. Helgood, J. B. Heigham, Amberley M. Moore, Anne N. Nason, R. E. Sharland and N. J. Skinner
5. The Birds of the Serengeti National Park, Tanzania by D. Schmidl
6. The Birds of Cyprus (2nd Edition, 1992) by P. R. Flint and P. F. Stewart
7. The Birds of Wallacea (1986) by C. M. N. White and M. D. Bruce
8. The Birds of the South Bahamas (1987) by D. W. Buden
9. The Birds of Ghana by L. G. Grimes
10. The Birds of Sumatra (1988) by J. G. van Marle and Karel H Voous
11. The Birds of Sicily (1989) by Carmelo Iapichino and Bruno Massa
12. The Birds of the Philippines (1991) by E. C. Dickinson, R. S. Kennedy and K. C. Parkes
13. The Birds of the Cape Verde Islands (1995) by C. J. Hazevoet
14. The Birds of Togo (1996) by Robert A. Cheke and J. Frank Walsh
15. The Birds of St Lucia (1997) by Allan R. Keith
16. The Birds of St Helena (1998) by Beau Rowlands et al.
17. The Birds of Corsica (1999) by J-C. Thibault and G. Bonaccorsi
18. The Birds of Angola (2000) by W. R. J. Dean
19. The Birds of the Cayman Islands (2000) by Patricia E. Bradley
20. The Birds of Hispaniola (2003) by Allan R. Keith, James W. Wiley, Steven C. Latta and José A. Ottenwalder
21. The Birds of Morocco (2003) by Michel Thévenot, Rae Vernon and Patrick Bergier
22. The Birds of the Gulf of Guinea (2006) by Alan Tye and Peter Jones
23. The Birds of the Borneo (2008) by Clive F. Mann
24. The Birds of the Barbados (2009) by P.A. Buckley, Edward B. Massiah, Maurice B. Hutt, Francine G. Buckley and Hazel F. Hutt

Libya, officially the State of Libya, is a country in the Maghreb region in North Africa, bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, Egypt to the east, Sudan to the southeast, Chad to the south, Niger to the southwest, Algeria to the west, and Tunisia to the northwest. The sovereign state is made of three historical regions: Tripolitania, Fezzan and Cyrenaica. With an area of almost 1.8 million square kilometres (700,000 sq mi), Libya is the fourth largest country in Africa, and is the 16th largest country in the world. Libya has the 10th-largest proven oil reserves of any country in the world. The largest city and capital, Tripoli, is located in western Libya and contains over one million of Libya's six million people. The second-largest city is Benghazi, which is located in eastern Libya.

Zanzibar is a semi-autonomous region of Tanzania. It is composed of the Zanzibar Archipelago in the Indian Ocean, 25–50 kilometres (16–31 mi) off the coast of the mainland, and consists of many small islands and two large ones: Unguja and Pemba Island. The capital is Zanzibar City, located on the island of Unguja. Its historic centre is Stone Town, which is a World Heritage Site.

Pemba Island, is an island forming part of the Zanzibar Archipelago, lying within the Swahili Coast in the Indian Ocean.

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