The Birds of Africa

The Birds of Africa
AuthorC. Hilary Fry, Stuart Keith, Emil Urban
IllustratorMartin Woodcock
PublisherAcademic Press
Publication date
1982 - 2013
"The Birds of Africa" is also a five-volume handbook by George Ernest Shelley, published 1896-1912.

The Birds of Africa is an eight-volume ornithological handbook. Its authors/editors are C. Hilary Fry, Stuart Keith and Emil Urban, and Claude Chappuis is sound editor. Each volume contains colour plates painted by Martin Woodcock. The series ended with the 8th volume in 2013 and shortly after in August 2014 publisher Academic Press confirmed that they would no longer be reprinting the first 7 volumes.