Promotional Information

This is the sixth volume in the Birds of Africa series, covering the rich avifauna of the world's second largest continent. Volume VI treats 20 families of passerines, from picathartes to oxpeckers.

Table of Contents

Plates Authorship Acknowledgements Introduction Order Passeriformes (continued from Volume V) Picathartes Babblers Long-tailed tits Tits Penduline Tits Nuthatches and Wallcreeper Spotted Creeper Tree-creepers Sunbirds White-eyes Sugarbirds True Shrikes Bush-shrikes Bulbuls Helmet-shrikes Orioles Drongos Crows Starlings Oxpeckers Bibliography General and Regional References Family References Acoustic References Index

About the Author

Hilary Fry has had a distinguished career in African ornithology, including lengthy teaching posts in Nigeria, Aberdeen and Oman. He co-founded the West African Ornithological Society and edited its journal Malimbus for many years, and is the author of more than 200 publications. Stuart Keith was a Research Associate at the American Museum of Natural History. During his many trips to Africa for the museum he pioneered the tape-recording of forest birds band published the groundbreaking Birds of the African Rain Forests. Emil Urban has held professorships at Haile Selassie University in Addis Ababa, University of Arkansas and Augusta State University, Georgia. he has published numerous papers on African birds including A Checklist of Birds of Ethiopia. Martin Woodcock is an acclaimed artist and illustrator whose work has graced many books covering the birds of such diverse locations as India, South-East Asia and Oman. His crowning achievement is that he painted virtually all the plates for the entire Birds of Africa series. He also served as president of the African Bird Club for many years.