Named by the African Bird Club as one of the three best field guides ever written for Africa, and voted the "Best New Field Guide" in
1997 by the journal British Birds.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 48 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. Clive Barlow has lived in The
Gambia since 1985, where he runs birdwatching safaris. He is actively involved
with the conservation of Gambian birds through various consultancy work and was
involved in the establishment of Kiang West National Park and Tanji Bird
Reserve. He is also the Gambian representative for the African Bird Club. Tim
Wacher was resident in The Gambia for five years working as a mammalian
ecologist, during which time he assembled a database of bird records that
formed the basis of the status and distribution sections of this book. His many
published papers include several on Gambian birds. Tony Disley is a bird artist
based in Lancashire. He has twice won the Richard Richardson Award for young
illustrators in British Birds, and his work regularly appears in ornithological
magazines and journals. Copublished with Pica Press.