- Taschenbuch: 408 Seiten
- Verlag: Yale Univ Pr (1. August 2005)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0300115741
- ISBN-13: 978-0300115741
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 19,3 x 14,3 x 2,5 cm
- Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung: 3.5 von 5 Sternen Alle Rezensionen anzeigen (2 Kundenrezensionen)
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 548.127 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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This comprehensive book is the first field guide to the birds of The Gambia and Senegal, an area of West Africa popular with birders for its many tropical African birds. The guide provides full accounts of over 660 bird species and depicts nearly all of these in 48 beautiful color plates.
"A first-rate book that is a fine contribution to bird literature. For the birder who has everything, this makes a great gift."--Roy John, "Canadian Field-Naturalist"
"A beautiful, succinct and very useful guide to the region's bird life."--Clay E. Corbin, "Quarterly Review of Biology"
"A first-rate book that is a fine contribution to bird literature. For the birder who has everything, this makes a great gift."--Roy John, "Canadian Field-Naturalist"
"A beautiful, succinct and very useful guide to the region's bird life."--Clay E. Corbin, "Quarterly Review of Biology"
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1 von 2 Kunden fanden die folgende Rezension hilfreich
Format:Gebundene Ausgabe
Während eines Gambiaaufenthaltes war mir dieses Buch unentbehrlich. Für eine Übersetzung ins Deutsche (deutschsprachige Besucher überwiegen nach meiner Erfahrung bei weitem die Englischsprechenden) schlage ich ein handlicheres Format und die Beschränkung auf zumindest "common" Species vor, sowie die Weglassung der senegalesischen Arten. Damit würde dem nicht ornithologisch spezialisierten "Normal-Touristen" ein übersichtlicher Führer über die wichtigen und häufigeren Arten an die Hand gegeben, während der wissenschaftlich ausgerichtete Ornithologe mit dem englischen Führer von Clive Barrow et al. gut bedient wäre.
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I recently returned from one month in Mali, where I took the 1977 Collins guide to the birds of West Africa by Serle and Morel. That book could fit in my pocket, this book by Barlow is too wide.
I am new to birdwatching and am used to the Peterson guides with big pictures and pointers to fieldmarks and many illustrations for each species . This book crams 20 or so birds on each page, and puts all the illustrations up at front. It does give a few examples of male/female/immature differences, and it does show raptors overhead. In this it is better than the Collins guide. The pictures seem cartoonish though.
The text is quite helpful and I guess the names of the birds are more up to date. I did not buy this book because I was going to Mali, not Senegal or Gambia. But all of the 60 or so birds that I identified in Mali are also found in this book. The Collins guide did not give me enough help identifying the many small weavers I saw, so I used this Barlow book and my field notes when I returned to the US, and this Barlow book is clearly superior in this case at least.
The Collins book covers all the birds of West Africa, even though nearly half get less than 10 words and no picture. Still, it has to be my first choice for countries other than Gambia and Senegal, especially since it is more portable.
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Too big to fit in pocket, text is good though
5. Februar 1999
Format:Gebundene Ausgabe
I recently returned from one month in Mali, where I took the 1977 Collins guide to the birds of West Africa by Serle and Morel. That book could fit in my pocket, this book by Barlow is too wide.
I am new to birdwatching and am used to the Peterson guides with big pictures and pointers to fieldmarks and many illustrations for each species . This book crams 20 or so birds on each page, and puts all the illustrations up at front. It does give a few examples of male/female/immature differences, and it does show raptors overhead. In this it is better than the Collins guide. The pictures seem cartoonish though.
The text is quite helpful and I guess the names of the birds are more up to date. I did not buy this book because I was going to Mali, not Senegal or Gambia. But all of the 60 or so birds that I identified in Mali are also found in this book. The Collins guide did not give me enough help identifying the many small weavers I saw, so I used this Barlow book and my field notes when I returned to the US, and this Barlow book is clearly superior in this case at least.
The Collins book covers all the birds of West Africa, even though nearly half get less than 10 words and no picture. Still, it has to be my first choice for countries other than Gambia and Senegal, especially since it is more portable.
9 von 9 Kunden fanden die folgende Rezension hilfreich
Birds of The Gambia and Senegal
13. Juli 2001
Format:Gebundene Ausgabe
The authors and illustrators do a wonderful job on a field guide of the birds of two countries that are not visited very often by birders. Clive Barlow lives in The Gambia and has been the moving force behind the creation of birding conservation efforts in that country. He is the acknowledged living expert of birds of Western Africa. He is also a first-rate field birder. Shortly after the book was published in 1998, my son and I had occasion to visit both Senegal and The Gambia. In Banjul we were most fortunate to meet Clive Barlow and go birding with him for four days. He is one of those rare individuals who has both wonderful identification skills combined with the uncanny ability to locate hard-to-find birds. His obvious love for birds is clearly evident in his handy field guide.
The book is well organized and very tastefully presented. The illustrations are superbly drawn and handy maps let you see the bird's expected range. Mr. Barlow is at his peak in the birds of The Gambia and only slightly less knowledgeable about Senegalese birding--perhaps because The Gambia is generally a much better place to observe birds.
The book is one of my favorite field guides. It is, of course, a must for anyone birding in those two countries or neighboring regions. I wish every area of the world were covered by a guide of this quality. Its creators are to be commended for a very solid, readable, useful and enjoyable field guide.
4 von 4 Kunden fanden die folgende Rezension hilfreich
Excellent guide, good detail!
7. November 2006
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I live in Senegal and this is a fabulous book for someone who is living in Senegal or the Gambia. I travel some and have been using the Princeton Illustrated Checklist for Birds of Western & Central Africa - but it is nice to have a more limited list of birds that actually live here. (Makes it easier to identify them!) The illustrations are clear and I appreciated the raptors perched and in flight illustrations. What I also have enjoyed is the detailed info. about each bird in the back of the book - mating habits, flight patterns, breeding, etc. so that I really can learn more about the bird than just its name.
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