Suggested itineraries are outlined depending on how many birding days you have in-country, very helpful. All the usual headings that we have come to expect in a travel guide, visas, driving, language, money, health etc are covered in short and to-the-point paragraphs, no waffle here. This is followed by a very comprehensive 23-page introduction, which covers everything you need to know about this fascinating and so often misunderstood country. The book opens with a map showing the locations of all 26 covered. Is this a good site guide worth buying? Does it deliver for the birder planning a trip to Ethiopia?. Not only do they know the sites and birds but they are accomplished bird photographers and their work brings the excellent text to colorful life with amazing bird images. All three have travelled throughout Ethiopia and visited every site in the book many times and know the locations, conditions and birds intimately. The three authors, Ken Behrens, Keith Barnes and Christian Boix, are all hardened field birders and are never happier than when birding in the fast lane, a perfect team to write this book. Of course a site guide must deliver a lot more than good looks and we settled down to read the text and see if it matched our recent experience of a month of fast-paced birding in Ethiopia in February 2008, during The Biggest Twitch.
Its 189 pages are packed with information, maps and breath- taking photographs of “must-see” birds. It is immediately eye-catching and a peek inside shows a lavishly illustrated book. Birding Ethiopia is very different from many sites guides we have used over the years.
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Surprising? Golden breasted starling © K BartlettĪs a must-visit destination which we would thoroughly recommend, this new guide will open your eyes to an Ethiopia far removed from the TV pictures. Surely this is no birding destination? How wrong is this idea.Įthiopia is a vibrant, exciting, bird-rich country with a list of some 850 species and a surprising range of habitats, second only to South Africa in the number of endemic bird species on the continent.
Why would a birder want to visit Ethiopia? We have all seen the television news pictures of a famine-torn land. Original source: Published by: Lynx Edicions
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