Product Description: This new field guide covers The Gambia, a country which is very popular with a large number of birders and tourists, and the whole of neighbouring Senegal. This fascinating region shelters many Western Palearctic migrants from September to April, as well as a significant list of resident West African birds...read more

Product Description: This is the first comprehensive guide to the birds of the Seychelles, a spectacular archipelago of 115 islands north of Madagascar. It describes and illustrates every species for the first time--more than 250 in all--and gives extended species accounts for all 66 breeding species...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

A guide to 242 species of birds in Seychelles illustrated in colour including 26 endemics. Information on the islands' geography, climate and birdwatching sites is also included in the introduction.

This field guide covers the area of the Gambia, a country which is very popular with a large number of birders. The Gambia shelters many migrants from the Western Palearctic, from September to April, as well as having a significant list of resident West African birds. The guide also covers Senegal.

The Gambia is a popular tourist destination and provides many birders with their first taste of tropical African birds. This small and accessible country shelters a great many migrants from the Western Palearctic from September to April, as well as having a significant list of resident West African birds. This is the first field guide to the birds of The Gambia, and it also covers the larger territory of Senegal, which almost entirely surrounds the country.The book offers the following features: -- the text covers every species on the Senegambian list -- over 660 species in total; -- the 4-8 color plates depict 570 species, and almost all the birds recorded in The Gambia and southern Senegal are illustrated; -- species accounts describe identification (including comparison with similar species), habits, voice, status and distribution, and breeding.