Bulletin of the African Bird Club, vol 17.1, March 2010: list of articles

• Plumage variation in African Goshawk Accipiter tachiro and its separation from congenerics in equatorial Africa
  Louette, M. illustrated by Borrow, N.
  p 19-31.
• Status of Short-clawed Lark Certhilauda chuana in south-eatern Botswana
  Brewster, C.A., Mooketsa, K. and Herremans, M.

          p 32-42.

• Cataloguing the Lubango Bird Skin Collection: towards an atlas of Angolan bird distributions
  Mills, M.S.L., Franke, U., Joseph, G., Miato, F., Milton, S., Monadjem, A., Oschadleus, D. and Dean, W.R.J.
  p 43-53.
• Bird observations from São Tomé: Monte Carmo as a priority conservation site
  Olmos, F. and Turshak, G.
  p 54-65.
• First records of eight bird species for Eritrea
  Anderson, J.
  p 66-70.

Double-toothed Barbet / Barbican bidenté Lybius bidentatus Bull. ABC 17.1 cover by Ian Fulton

• Recent bird records from Fogo, Cape Verde Islands
  Barone, R. and Hering, J.
  p 72-78.
• The separate African winter quarters of Pied Flycatcher Ficedula hypoleuca and Collared Flycatcher F. albicollis
  Dowsett, R.J.
  p 79-81.
• First breeding record and passage of Eurasian Sparrowhawk Accipiter nisus in Libya
  Hering, J., Fuchs, E. and Brehme, S.
  p 82-84.
• Correction of three historical bird records from Libya
  De Faveri, A. and Baccetti, N.
  p 85.
• Rock Firefinch Lagonosticta sanguinodorsalis and its brood parasite Jos Plateau Indigobird Vidua maryae in northern Cameroon
  Mills, M.S.L.
  p 86-89.
• Rufous Fishing Owl Scotopelia ussheri camera-trapped at midday near Tiwai Island, Sierra Leone
  Conway, A., Hernandez, S. and Carroll, J.P.
  p 90-91.
• Noteworthy bird records from São Tomé and Príncipe

          Hall, P., Leventis, A.P., Olmos, F., Rumsey, S. and Turshak, L.
          p 93-96.

• Display behaviour of Shelley's Oliveback Nesocharis shelleyi
  Mills, M.S.L.
  p 97-98.
• Little-known African bird: Madagascar Serpent Eagle Eutriorchis astur
  Eames, J.C.
  p 99-101.
• Photospot: Friedmann's Lark Mirafra pulpa
  Borrow, N.
  p 102-105.
• Finding southern Ethiopia's endemic birds
  Spottiswoode, C.N.
  p 106-113.

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