Bulletin of the African Bird Club, vol 8.1, March 2001: list of articles

• Personality: Anteneh Shimelis
  Rodney Martins
  p 10-11.
• Pelagic seabirding off Cape Town, South Africa
  Callan Cohen, Claire Spottiswoode and Barrie Rose
  p 12-17.
• Status and distribution of Hume's Tawny Owl Strix butleri in the Eastern Desert of Egypt
  Sherif Baha El Din and Mindy Baha El Din
  p 18-20.
• A new site for Newton's Fiscal Lanius newtoni
  Valéry Schollaert and Gilles Willem
  p 21-22.
• The second report of the Seychelles Bird Records Committee
  Adrian Skerrett and the Seychelles Bird Records Committee.
  p 23-29.
• Magic, myth and misunderstanding: cultural responses to owls in Africa and their implications for conservation
  Mark Cocker and Heimo Mikkola
  p 30-35.

Hume's (Tawny) Owl Bull. ABC 8.1 cover (Sherif Baha El Din)

• The birds of Bijol Island, Tanji River (Karinti) Bird Reserve, The Gambia
  Linda K Barnett, Craig Emms and Amadou Camara
  p 39-43.
• New species and breeding records for The Gambia
  Linda K Barnett, Craig Emms
  p 44-45.
• Recoveries of birds ringed in Senegal and The Gambia during recent years
  S. J. R. Rumsey
  p 46-47.
• Spotted Sandpiper Actitis macularia in Kenya: the first record in sub-Saharan Africa
  Richard and Anne Bishop
  p 48-49
• First record of Spotted Sandpiper Actitis macularia for Cameroon and Central Africa
  Marc Languy and Xavier Lambin
  p 50.
• European Bee-eater Merops apiaster and Citrine Wagtail Motacilla citreola: the first records for Seychelles
  Adrian Skerrett
  p 51-53
• A survey of birds on Annobon Island, Equatorial Guinea: preliminary report
  Jaime Pérez del Val
  p 54.
• Little known African bird: observations on Loango Slender-billed Weaver Ploceus subpersonatus in Congo-Brazzaville
  Pierre Bulens and R.J. Dowsett
  p 57-58.

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