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
AuthorC. Hilary Fry, Stuart Keith, Emil Urban
IllustratorMartin Woodcock
Publisher Academic Press
Publication date
1982 - 2013

The Birds of Africa is an eight-volume ornithological handbook. Its authors/editors are C. Hilary Fry, Stuart Keith and Emil Urban, and Claude Chappuis [1] is sound editor. Each volume contains colour plates painted by Martin Woodcock [2] . The series ended with the 8th volume in 2013 and shortly after in August 2014 publisher Academic Press confirmed that they would no longer be reprinting the first 7 volumes. [3]

Contents

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. The first 3 volumes refer to non passerine birds, 4, 5, 6, and 7 refer to passerine, and the 8th and final volume refers to the birds of and relating to Madagascar specifically. [4]

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.

References

  1. ↑ Érard, Christian (2021). Alauda (Volume 89 (4) ed.). SEOF-MNHN. ISBN   9782329986944.
  2. ↑ C Hilary, Fry; Emil K, Urban; Stuart, Keith; Roger, Safford; Frank, Hawkins (2014). The Birds of Africa (Hardback ed.). A & C Black. ISBN   9781408190609 . Retrieved 24 March 2020.
  3. ↑ "The Birds of Africa (8-Volume Set)". nhbs. Retrieved 20 August 2024.
  4. ↑ "The Birds of Africa (8-Volume Set)". nhbs. Retrieved 20 August 2024.


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