Showing The birds of Seychelles and the outlying islands by Malcolm Penny

As noted inside the book, this is the first field guide to represent the birds of the Seychelles islands. An excellent introduction to the history, habitats, conservation, colonization, and evolutionary tendencies are given in the initial 47 pages. This field guide covers the endemic and resident birds, but not all the migrants and vagrants (up to 200) that have occurred on these islands. Of the 12 plates, four of them are in black-and-white, which depict the seabirds. Despite its age compared to recent field guides for these islands, the text is still good. It is in-depth, and offers substantial historical, distribution, habitat, and behavioral information on the endemics. Many of the birds receive full 1-2 pages of coverage, which is uncommon in a field guide.