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Article: The Birds of Sao Tome and Principe with Annobon Islands of the Gulf of Guinea. BOU Checklist No. 22.(Book review)
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- The Wilson Journal of Ornithology
- Article date:
- March 1, 2007
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THE BIRDS OF SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE WITH ANNOBON ISLANDS OF THE GULF OF GUINEA. BOU Checklist No. 22. By Peter Jones and Alan Tye. British Ornithologists' Union/British Ornithologists' Club, Oxford, United Kingdom. 2006:172 pp., 34 plates, 8 maps. ISBN: 0-907446-27-2. Price 30 [pounds sterling] (cloth).--This latest volume in a steadily lengthening line of worthy checklists produced by the British Ornithologists' Union focuses on a chain of small, remote and until recently almost forgotten volcanic islands that straddle the equator off of the coast of Western Africa in the Gulf of Guinea namely Principe, Sao Tome, and Annobon. Discovering and rediscovering the avian secrets ...