References

BirdLife International (2000) Threatened Birds of the World. Barcelona and Cambridge, UK: Lynx Edicions and BirdLife International.

COHEN, C., SPOTTISWOODE, C. & ROSSOUW, J. (2006) Southern African Birdfinder: where to find 1,400 birds in southern Africa and Madagascar. Struik Publishers. Please visit www.sabirdfinder.com or contact callan@birdingafrica.com for more information.

DEAN, W.R.J. and LE MAITRE, D.C. (2008) The birds of the Soyo area, northwest Angola. Malimbus 30(1) pp 1-18.

DEAN, W.R.J., Angola chapter pp 71 - 91in FISHPOOL, L.D.C. and EVANS M.I. editors (2001) Important Bird Areas in Africa and Associated Islands: Priority sites for conservation. Newbury and Cambridge, UK. Pisces Publications and BirdLife International (BirdLife Conservation Series No.11).

DEAN, W. R. J. (2000) The Birds of Angola. Tring, UK: British Ornithologists' Union (BOU Checklist No.18). "A monumental avifauna covering this hugely ornithologically neglected country." 444 pages, 16 pages of colour photographs, figures, diagrams and maps. ISBN: 0-9074-4622-1.

GIBBON, G. Roberts’ Multimedia Birds of Southern Africa Version 3.0. This is a comprehensive and interactive multimedia program with 950 Southern African bird species, 4,000 photos, 850 bird sounds and 650 bird videos on 2 CD-ROMs.

MILLS, M. S. L. (2006) First record of Pink-billed Lark Spizocorys conirostris for Angola. ABC Bulletin 13 (2) pp 212.

MILLS, M. S. L. (2009) Vocalisations of Angolan birds: new descriptions and other notes. ABC Bulletin 16(2) pp 150-166.

MILLS, M., COHEN, C. and SPOTTISWOODE, C. (2004) Little-known African bird: Gabela Akalat, Angola's long-neglected Gabelatrix. ABC Bulletin 11(2) pp 149-151.

MILLS, M. S. L., vaz PINTO, P. & DEAN, W.R.J. (2008) The avifauna of Cangandala National Park, Angola. ABC Bulletin 15(1) pp 113-120.

MILLS, M.S.L., FRANKE, U., JOSEPH, G., MIATO, F., MILTON, S., MONADJEM, A., OSCHADLEUS, D. and DEAN, W.R.J. (2010) Cataloguing the Lubango Bird Skin Collection: towards an atlas of Angolan bird distributions. ABC Bulletin 17(1) pp 43-53.

MILLS, M.S.L., MELO, M., BORROW, N. and vaz PINTO, P. (2011) The Endangered Braun's Bushshrike Laniarius brauni: a summary. ABC Bulletin 18(2) pp 174-181.

MILLS, M.S.L., MELO, M. and VAZ, A. (2011) Black-tailed Cisticola Cisticola melanurus in eastern Angola: behavioural notes and the first photographs and sound-recordings. ABC Bulletin 18(2) p p 193-198.

SIMMONS, R.E., MILLS, M. S. L. & DEAN, W.R.J. (2009) Oystercatcher Haemotopus records from Angola. ABC Bulletin 16(2) pp 211-212.

SINCLAIR, I. and HOCKEY, P (1996) Birds of Southern Africa. Struik Publishers, Cape Town, South Africa. 448 pages. ISBN 1-8682-5759-2 (English). Also available in Afrikaans. This book covers many of the species in Angola, particularly the southern areas.

SINCLAIR, I. and RYAN, P. (2003) CUANZA SUL -The heart of Africa. Africa Birds and Birding Vol 8(3). See this article also at Birding Africa.

SINCLAIR, I. and RYAN, P. (2003) Birds of Africa south of the Sahara. Struik Publishers, Cape Town, South Africa. 760 pages. ISBN 1-8687-2857-9.

SINCLAIR, I., SPOTTISWOODE, C., COHEN, C., MILLS, M., CASSIDY, R., vaz PINTO, P. and RYAN, P. (2004) Birding western Angola. ABC Bulletin 11(2) pp 152-160.

Links

Birds Angola is a group of individuals and organisations that aim to support, promote and conduct information gathering, research and conservation of Angolan birds. Their main focus is the scientific publication of information on Angolan birds, at this stage concentrated primarily on descriptive studies, with a strong focus on priority taxa and areas for conservation.

www.mountmoco.org is devoted to work at Mount Moco, Angola’s highest mountain and arguably the most important site for bird conservation in Angola. The primary challenges are that the site has no formal conservation status and that the few remaining Afromontane forest patches, no more than 85 ha in extent, are being eroded by a single human community of around 330 people (Kanjonde village). The site is thought to contain half of all Afromontane forest in Angola, making it vital for the protection of birds dependent on these forests. The most notable of these is Swierstra’s Francolin Francolinus swierstrai with an estimated population of 80 pairs at the mountain. No other viable population of this species is currently known.

The Malimbus website provides free of charge the full text of papers, notes, reports and reviews about the birds of Cabinda that have appeared in the journal prior to the last three years. For more recent articles, you can find summaries and abstracts on the site.

Last page update 3rd September 2011