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The Birds of Africa, Volume 2 Game Birds to Pigeons

World / Checklist Flora / Fauna Cancelled
Series: The Birds of Africa Volume: 2
By: Emil K Urban(Editor), C Hilary Fry(Editor), Stuart Keith(Editor), Martin Woodcock(Illustrator), Ian Willis(Illustrator)
600 pages, colour illustrations, colour distribution maps
Publisher: Helm
The Birds of Africa, Volume 2
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  • The Birds of Africa, Volume 2 ISBN: 9780121373023 Hardback Jul 2002 Out of Print #572
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Please note (August 2014): With the publication of volume 8 in 2013, Christopher Helm initially announced it would be reprinting The Birds of Africa, Volume 2: Game Birds to Pigeons (originally published in 1986) without modifications and release it as part of an 8-volume set. We have received confirmation from the publisher however that these plans have been abandoned and that both these reprints and the 8-volume set have been cancelled.

The second volume in The Birds of Africa continues the high standards set by the first. The three editors have followed the vision of the late Leslie Brown and organized a team of internationally known experts to help them produce an up-to-date and comprehensive work. The Birds of Africa, Volume 2: Game Birds to Pigeons covers all birds found in Africa, from gamebirds to pigeons. In order to do justice to the ever increasing volume of publications on African birds and the wealth of material collated by the contributors, and to fulfil the aim of illustrating all main plumages of every species, The Birds of Africa has been expanded to eight volumes.

As in Volume 1, all species of birds found in Africa are covered, including migrants and vagrants. Resident birds are treated in full detail, with sections on their range and status, description, field characters, voice, general behaviour, food and breeding biology. Visitors are also given extensive coverage, with emphasis on their status and behaviour within Africa.

These volumes are being acclaimed as the authority on the avifauna of Africa; they will remain as such for many years to come. The quality of the text and the beauty of the plates will assure them pride of place on the shelves of ornithologists and bird-watchers everywhere. Indeed, anyone with an interest in natural history or ecology will find here a source of much interest and enjoyment.
 

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World / Checklist Flora / Fauna Cancelled
Series: The Birds of Africa Volume: 2
By: Emil K Urban(Editor), C Hilary Fry(Editor), Stuart Keith(Editor), Martin Woodcock(Illustrator), Ian Willis(Illustrator)
600 pages, colour illustrations, colour distribution maps
Publisher: Helm
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"This second volume reinforces the impression gained from Volume 1 that this handbook is destined to become the standard work for the continent, and as such it is indispensable to anyone with an interest in African birds."
– Iain Robertson, British Birds

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