224 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 21 cm
Type:
Identification
Guidebooks
Place:
Tanzania
Serengeti National Park
Ngorongoro Game Control Area Reserve
Serengeti National Park (Tanzania)
Ngorongoro Game Control Area Reserve (Tanzania)
Date:
2014
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: Plains -- Marsh and water -- Woodland, scrub & garden -- Acacia scrub -- Village -- Forest -- Up in the air -- Nightbirds -- Lake Victoria specials -- Map of the Serengeti and Ngorongoro Conservation Area - NCA -- Birds of The Plains -- The Big Ones: 1 - Ostrich -- The Big Ones: 2 - Secretarybird and Grey Crowned Crane -- Bustards - Kori, Black-bellied and White-bellied Bustards -- Small plover & coursers - Double-banded and Temminck's Coursers and Kittlitz's Plover -- Vanellus plovers - Crowned, Senegal and Black-winged Plovers -- Sandgrouse - Black-faced, Yellow-throated and Chestnut-bellied Sandgrouse -- Storks and ground hornbill - White and Abdim's Storks and Southern Ground Hornbill -- At the carcass - Marabou Stork and Ruppell's and White-backed Vultures -- Vultures - White-headed, Hooded and Lappet-faced Vultures -- Vultures in flight - all species for comparison --
Contents note continued: Black-and-white eagles and Egyptian Vulture - Martial and Black-chested Snake Eagles and Egyptian Vulture -- Black-and-white eagles - Verreaux's Eagle, Augur Buzzard and Bateleur -- Brown raptors - Black Kite and Tawny and Steppe Eagles -- Raptors in flight - all species for comparison -- Grey raptors - Pallid and Montagu's Harriers and African Harrier Hawk -- Large falcon and grey kite - Lanner Falcon and Black-shouldered Kite -- Small falcons - Grey, Common and Lesser Kestrels -- Rollers - Lilac-breasted and Eurasian Rollers -- Oxpeckers and starling - Red-billed and Yellow-billed Oxpeckers and Wattled Starling -- Little brown jobs or `LBJs' - Pectoral-patch and Zitting Cisticolas and Red-capped and Rufous-naped Larks -- Sparrow lark and chats - Fischer's Sparrow Lark and Sooty and Anteater Chats -- Wheatears - Capped, Northern and Pied Wheatears --
Contents note continued: Upright birds of the plains - Yellow-throated and Rosy-breasted Longclaws and Buffy and Grassland Pipits -- Bishop and widowbirds - Yellow Bishop and Yellow-mantled and Jackson's Widowbirds -- Birds of Marsh and Water -- Flamingos - Greater and Lesser Flamingos -- Wetland storks - Woolly-necked, Yellow-billed and African Open-billed Storks -- Stork and ibises - Saddle-billed Stork and Sacred and Hadada Ibises -- Small herons - Hamerkop and Striated and Squacco Herons -- Large, dark herons - Goliath, Grey and Black-headed Herons -- Egrets - Cattle, Little and Great White Egrets -- Fish eagle - African Fish Eagle -- Smaller ducks - Red-billed Teal and White-faced Whistling and Fulvous Whistling Ducks -- Larger wildfowl - Spur-winged and Egyptian Geese and Knob-billed Duck -- Birds of the water's edge - Black-winged Stilt, African Jacana and Black Crake -- Wetland plovers - African Wattled, Blacksmith and Spur-winged Plovers --
Contents note continued: Waders: 1 Water Thick-knee and Ruff -- Waders: 2 Common Greenshank, Marsh Sandpiper and Three-banded Plover -- Waders: 3 Wood, Common and Green Sandpipers -- Kingfishers - Giant, Malachite and Pied Kingfishers -- Wagtails and waxbill - Yellow and African Pied Wagtails and Common Waxbill -- Birds of Woodland, Scrub & Garden -- Open woodland raptors - Brown Snake and Long-crested Eagles and Steppe Buzzard -- Bustard, thick-knee and courser - Buff-crested Bustard, Spotted Thick-knee and Heuglin's Courser -- Spurfowl - Red-necked, Grey-breasted and Yellow-necked Spurfowl -- Gamebirds - Helmeted Guineafowl and Coqui and Crested Francolins -- `Collared' doves - Ring-necked, African Mourning and Red-eyed Doves -- Distinctive pigeons and doves - Speckled and African Green Pigeons and Emerald-spotted Wood Dove -- Doves and mousebird - Namaqua and Laughing Doves and Speckled Mousebird --
Contents note continued: Parrots and hornbill - Fischer's Lovebird, Meyer's Parrot and African Grey Hornbill -- Large cuckoos and relatives - White-browed Coucal, Red-chested Cuckoo and Bare-faced Go-away-bird -- Three green gems - Klaas's and Diederik Cuckoos and Little Bee-eater -- Bush kingfishers - Striped, Woodland and Grey-headed Kingfishers -- Hoopoes - Green Wood-hoopoe, Common Scimitarbill and Hoopoe -- Barbets - Usambiro and Spot-flanked Barbets and Red-fronted Tinkerbird -- Honeyguides and woodpecker - Greater and Lesser Honeyguides and Bearded Woodpecker -- Woodpeckers - Green-backed, Nubian and Cardinal Woodpeckers -- Large bushshrikes and oriole - Grey-headed Bushshrike, Tropical Boubou and Black-headed Oriole -- Small black-and-white birds - Brown-throated Wattle-eye, Chin-spot Batis and Black-backed Puffback -- Birds of Woodland, Scrub & Garden (continued) -- White-fronted shrikes - Common and Grey-backed Fiscals and Northern White-crowned Shrike --
Contents note continued: Black birds of woodland edge - Common Drongo, Slate-coloured Boubou and Northern Black Flycatcher -- Tchagras and bulbul - Brown-crowned and Black-crowned Tchagras, Common Bulbul -- Thrushes, scrub robin and babbler - Spotted Morning and Olive Thrushes, White-browed Scrub Robin and Arrow-marked Babbler -- Attractive flycatchers of woods and gardens - White-eyed Slaty and African Paradise Flycatcher -- Little brown jobs or `LBJs' - Rattling Cisticola, Red-faced Crombec and Tawny-flanked Prinia -- Green warblers - Yellow-breasted Apalis, Grey-backed Camaroptera and Grey-capped Warbler -- Sunbirds: 1 - Scarlet-chested, Collared and Variable Sunbirds -- Sunbirds: 2 - Marico, Beautiful and Bronze Sunbirds -- Colourful birds of bush and garden - White-browed Robin Chat and Ruppell's and Greater Blue-eared Starlings -- Brightly coloured starlings - Superb, Hildebrandt's and Violet-backed Starlings -- Yellow weavers - Spectacled, Baglafecht and Village Weavers --
Contents note continued: Waxbills - Purple Grenadier, Red-cheeked Cordon-bleu and Bronze Mannikin -- Striking small birds of open bush - Pin-tailed Whydah, Golden-breasted Bunting and Yellow-fronted Canary -- Birds of Acacia Scrub -- Acacia barbets and go-away-bird - Red-and-yellow and Red-fronted Barbets and White-bellied Go-away-bird -- Medium-sized birds of acacia scrub - Blue-naped Mousebird, Abyssinian Scimitarbill and Von der Decken's Hornbill -- Shrikes - Brubru, Taita Fiscal and Magpie Shrike -- Small birds of acacia scrub - Silverbird, African Grey Flycatcher, White-bellied Canary and Foxy Lark -- Acacia weavers: 1 Grey-capped Social, Speckle-fronted and Vitelline Masked Weavers -- Acacia weavers: 2 Red-billed Buffalo, White-headed Buffalo and Rufous-tailed Weavers -- Village Birds -- Village sparrows - Swahili, Kenya Rufous and House Sparrows -- Common village birds - Red-billed Firefinch, Village Indigobird and Pied Crow -- Forest and Crater Highlands Birds --
Contents note continued: Large forest birds - White-necked Raven, Schalow's Turaco and Crowned Hornbill -- Small birds of forest edge and open areas - Cinnamon-chested Bee-eater, Streaky Seedeater and African Stonechat -- Birds of The Air -- Black swallows and dark martins - Black and White-headed Saw-wings and Plain and Banded Martins -- Swallows with red rumps - Mosque, Red-rumped, Rufous-chested and Lesser Striped Swallows -- Swallows with dark rumps - Wire-tailed, Angola and Barn Swallows -- Swifts - Little, White-rumped, African Palm, Nyanza and Common Swifts -- Bee-eaters - Eurasian, Blue-cheeked and White-throated Bee-eaters -- Night Birds -- Owls - Pearl-spotted Owlet, Verreaux's Eagle Owl and African Scops Owl -- Barn Owl and nightjars - Barn Owl and Square-tailed / Gabon and Slender-tailed Nightjars -- Lake Victoria Specials -- Birds of the lakeside - Blue-headed Coucal, Swamp Flycatcher and Black-headed Gonolek --
Contents note continued: Sunbird and weavers - Red-chested Sunbird and Grosbeak and Slender-billed Weavers -- Lakeside weavers - Northern Brown-throated, Golden-backed and Yellow-backed Weavers -- Terns and gull - Whiskered and White-winged Black Terns and Grey-headed Gull -- Cormorants and small plovers - Reed and Great Cormorants and White-fronted and Common Ringed Plovers
