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Birds of Ethiopia and Eritrea: An Atlas of Distributioa (Hardcover)

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Hardcover: 463 pages
Publisher: Christopher Helm (3 April 2009)
Language English
ISBN-10: 1408109794
ISBN-13: 978-1408109793
Product Dimensions: 24.8 x 19.4 x 3.8 cm

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'It will enhance the library of anyone with an interest in the birds of East Africa.' --Biologist (August 2009)

'A most thorough and well researched avifauna of these two countries, giving a huge amount of detail...a superb section of photos.'
--Scottish Bird (2009)

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Ethiopia and Eritrea have a fascinating and unique avifauna. Poorly known in comparison to many parts of Africa, knowledge on bird distribution in the two countries is scattered throughout the literature. For more than 35 years, the authors have been painstakingly collecting bird records in the region and plotting them on half-degree maps, including published records, data from museum specimens, sightings from their own extensive travels and, more recently, records from the many birdwatchers that now visit Ethiopia. The resulting atlas provides, for the first time, an accurate assessment of the distribution of each of the 870 species known from the two countries, including valuable information on breeding. The succinct text summarises the results and discusses distribution to subspecies level. Extensive introductory chapters cover topics such as topography, geology, vegetation, climate, habitats, conservation, migration, breeding seasons, bird ringing, and the history of ornithology in the region. This groundbreaking book fills a large hole in the literature for one of the most diverse and least known areas of Africa.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Not for amateurs on holiday bird watching!, 22 April 2009

By	J. Sj�berg "Moneta" (Sweden) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Do not invest in this book unless you are into professional ornithology.This book has only a few photos of some endemic birds. Hence, not at all a field guide. I was very disappointed. However, it seems that this book would be a bible to any ornithologist specialised in birds of Ethiopia and Eritrea.

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5.0 out of 5 stars BIRDS OF ETHIOPIA AND ERITREA, 6 Aug 2009

By	K. F. Betton "Keith Betton" (UK) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

For many years there has been a relative dearth of detailed material on Ethiopia and Eritrea, and then suddenly a deluge! I'm not complaining though, as these countries are both hugely important, being rich in endemic bird areas and significant for both wintering and passage birds too.

John Ash (with John Miskell) has already produced the authoritative work on Somalia (Birds of Somalia, 1998, Pica Press) and now he has done the same again for Ethiopia and Eritrea. Ash worked in the region from 1969 to 1977 while Atkins was present from 1991 to 1996. Between them, the two men have personally visited most of the area, including some of the remotest corners that are off the tourist routes. By combining their collective knowledge with that of local conservationists and visiting birders they have been able to plot the known distribution of some 872 species.

Whereas only small maps can be found in the recently-published field guide Birds of the Horn of Africa - Ethiopia, Eritrea, Djibouti, Somalia and Socotra, the dot maps in this book measure about 5cm x 5cm, allowing careful assessment of distribution. The recording unit for this work is the half degree square (measuring roughly 55km by 55km). Black dots indicate at least one breeding record, and white dots simply show that the bird has been seen. Due to the lack of breeding data from the region even abundant resident birds such as Common Bulbul are only shown nesting in a small number of areas. Each map has a coloured background which indicates higher ground and water bodies.

For each species there is a description of status ranging from around 80 to 200 words.
There is a huge amount of data in this book. For example you can read an assessment of the contributions made by ornithologists who have visited the region since the early 1800s, plus details of topography and hydrography, lists of species restricted biome or range, together with those that are either threatened, endemic or both. There is a listing of bird ringing results and co-ordinates for all of the Important Bird Areas (69 in Ethiopia and 14 in Eritrea). A huge gazetteer covers 26 pages and around 1000 sites, and an extensive catalogue of reference material covers a further 25 pages.

A set of excellent photographs of endemic species has been provided by Hadoram Shirihai (plus Nik Borrow). However there are no colour photographs of sites, and just a couple of monochrome shots accompany the habitat text.

The taxonomy used in this book is similar but not identical to that in the new field guide. Similarly some common names differ too. Neither book accepts Degodi Lark or Bulo Burti Bush-shrike as true species. This book does not split Erlanger's Lark from Blanford's Lark and chooses Blanford's Short-toed Lark as the common name for the latter. Winding Cisticola is treated as one species rather than two (unlike the field guide which splits), and Tropical Boubou is treated as one species rather than three (again unlike the field guide).

This is a great book and with the arrival of both this and the field guide we now have a huge wealth of up-to-date information on the region.

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