East Africa Birds: A Folding Pocket Guide to Familiar Species in Kenya, Tanzania & Uganda (Nature Observation International)

I used this as a handy guide during a recent safari in Tanzania. This does not replace a detailed guidebook, but was a nice, lightweight, waterproof reference for many of the birds we saw.

This will be very helpful in the field!

I took this pocket guide with me for our trip to Tanzania. I also bought the Birds of East Africa guide but being that we were limited to 33 pounds due to bush plane restrictions, I was unable to pack it as the book was very large and heavy. That’s where the pocket guide came in handy. I put it in my day pack and used it to identify almost all of the common birds. Luckily our first guide was bird knowledgeable so he could identify the less common birds. I wrote the names down and when we came home I marked the birds we saw in the big book. Before we left Tanzania, I gave the pocket guide to our second guide who wasn’t quite as bird knowledgeable as our first one.

I just returned from a safari in Africa. That little booklet was very good and remarkably comprehensive. I highly recommend it.

A good guide to help identification while I was on Safari in Kenya, and when labeling photos when I returned home.

I recently returned from my trip to Kenya and am so grateful I purchased this guide. I stayed in Amboseli and the South Rift and this guide was extremely helpful and lightweight for when we went on our hikes/sunrise excursions to ID some of the more common species. High recommend if you have limited space.

This is light, compact, and groups the birds in a very logical way, making it easy to find what you are looking at. The problem is that what you are looking at isn't always there. Some of the most common birds of Tanzania, Uganda and Kenya, like red-billed oxpeckers, social weavers, and various shrikes and starlings were not listed. East Africa is so very rich with exotic birds that a more extensive field guide is definitely necessary. This is good to decide before the trip what you would like to see so you can ask your tour guide.

I used this throughout Kenya and Tanzania while on Safari. Everyone in our Land Cruiser was thankful to see closeup pics of the birds we were seeing. The laminate was great to keep clean and it was used multiple times a day! I even checked off the birds as we saw them. Could easily write on it with a pen. Highly recommend!

Beautiful illustrations making it easy to identify birds. Well printed and stood up to rigours of our safari. Highly recommended.

I took this field guide to Africa last fall, and I used it every day - and it got passed around the jeep to other folks on the tour who wanted to look up birds they photographed. The drawings are good in that they show key features or colours that differentiate the birds from each other. I used this pamplet more than the wildlife one that I also took with us, and was very happy to have it. I highly recommend this if visiting Kenya and Tanzania. We saw most of these birds!

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Good and handy for travellers. Not too much detail though but definitely helps during safaris. But too costly

Excellent pocket book that you can easily bring with you while on safari. My kids love to find the name of the bird they can see