Bulletin of the African Bird Club, vol 18.2, September 2011: list of articles

• The avifauna of Benin: additions and corrections
  Dowsett, R.J. and Dowsett-Lemaire, F.
  p 148-167
• Notes on the structure and plumage of Beesley's Lark Chersomanes [albofasciata] beesleyi
  Donald, P.F and Collar, N.J.

          p 168-173

• The Endangered Braun's Bushshrike Laniarius brauni: a summary
  Mills, M.S.L., Melo, M., Borrow, N. and vaz Pinto, P.
  p 174-181
• Fourth report of the Seychelles Bird Records Committee
  Skerrett, A., Betts, M., Bowler, J., Bullock, I., Fisher, D., Lucking, R. and Phillips, J.
  p 182-192
• Black-tailed Cisticola Cisticola melanurus in eastern Angola: behavioural notes and the first photographs and sound-recordings
  Mills, M.S.L., Melo, M. and Vaz, A.
  p 193-198

African Pitta / Pitta angolensis Bull. ABC 18.2 cover by Warwick Tarboton

• Discovery of a wintering site of Demoiselle Cranes Anthropoides virgo in Kafta-Sheraro National Park, Ethiopia
  Gebremedhin, B. and Demeke, Y.
  p 199-202
• Largest-ever Red-headed Weaver Anaplectes rubriceps colony
  Oschadleus, H.D. and van Stuyvenberg, D.
  p 203-206
• Status of Barn Swallow Hirundo rustica in south-west Madagascar
  Gardner, C.J. and Jasper, L.D.
  p 207-210
• Sightings of Sooty Falcon Falco concolor in the far north of Cameroon
  Buij, R.
  p 211-215
• An attack by a Hoopoe Upupa epops on a Guttural Toad Amietophrynus gutturalis
  Norval, G. and Stevens, D.
  p 215-216
• First breeding record for Little Bittern Ixobrychus minutus in Libya
  Hering, J. and Fuchs, E.
  p 218-220
• First record of Greater Kestrel Falco rupicoloides for Niger and western Africa

  Rabeil, T. and Wacher, T.
  p 221-222

• First records for Seychelles of Alpine Swift Tachymarptis melba, Desert Wheatear Oenanthe deserti and the genus Ficedula

Phillips, J. and V.
p 223-225

• Photospot: Iago Sparrows Passer iagoensis in the mirror

  Barone, R. and Delgado, G.
  p 226-227

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