Field Guide to the Birds of East Africa by Terry Stevenson and John Fanshawe,
illustrated by Brian Small, John Gale and Norman Arlott, T&AD Poyser,
£29.95, ISBN 0856610798
EAST Africa is the world’s premier birding destination, thanks to its
diversity of species and the ease with which most can be seen. But until now the
quality of the birdwatching has not been matched by the available field
guides.
Zimmerman, Turner and Pearson’s Birds of Kenya & Northern
Tanzania has been invaluable since it was published in 1996. Compared with
this new work, however, it appears clumsy and old-fashioned—and it covers…
