Birds of the Serengeti : and Ngorongoro Conservation Area / Adam Scott Kennedy.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Located in northern Tanzania, the Serengeti is one of the world's most famous wildlife regions. Birds of the Serengeti is a groundbreaking and essential photographic guide, featuring more than 270 bird species most likely to be encountered in the Serengeti National Park and Ngorongoro Conservation Area. This easy-to-use guide includes 480 dazzling color photos, an attractive and handy layout, and informative and accessible text that discusses interesting behaviors and provides insights into species background. Rich in detail, this indispensable volume uses a habitat-based approach, making it.

Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; About this book; The habitats; 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 Rüppell's and White-backed Vultures; Vultures -- White-headed, Hooded and Lappet-faced Vultures .; Vultures in flight -- all species for comparison; 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 comparisonGrey 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 WheatearsUpright 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 EgretsFish 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; 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.

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