Option C Red text and spine
A Book of Birds by Humphrey Ocean
From his first sighting of a puffin, Humphrey Ocean has been attracted by the unusual behaviour and colour of birds, finding everyday British garden visitors in all their variety quite as exotic as those he sees in the hedgerows and lake near where he stays in Africa. In this collection, drawn from the notebooks, paintings and sketches he has made over the years, Ocean records, often on the wing, these mysterious and elusive creatures.
A Book of Birds by Humphrey Ocean
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57
Index of bird species
Front cover: African paradise monarch
2
Grey-capped warbler
5
African darter
6
Bronze mannikin
7
House sparrow
8
Black-headed weave (above), female blackheaded weaver (below)
9 10
Variable sunbird
16
Chaffinch
17
Cattle egret
18
House sparrow
19
Blue tit
13
Great cormorant, Great white egret Female bronze sunbird
29
African firefinch, African citril, Variable sunbird
41
House sparrow, Blackthroated wattle-eye, White-browed sparrowweaver
54 Chaffinch
56
Great tit
55 Blackcap
42
Goldfinch
57
Coal tit
30
Mistle thrush
43
Sand martin
58
Tufted duck
20–21 Mousebird
31
Olive thrush
44 Moorhen
59
Southern ground hornbill
22
Lilac-breasted roller
32
African paradise monarch
45
The Humber at Hull
60
Village indigo bird
23
Falcon
33
46
Pink-backed pelican
61
Herring gull
24
(Clockwise from left) Common bulbul, Yellowwhiskered greenbul, Olivaceous warbler, Red-billed firefinch, Hadada
White-eyed slaty flycatcher
47
Pochard
34
Pied crow
48
Greenfinch
35
Golden weaver
49
Great tit
36
Mousebird
50
37
Silvery-cheeked hornbill
Collared sunbird, African goshawks
38
Hamerkop
51
Hoopoe
52
Yellow-rumped tinkerbird, Streaky seedeater
53
Ring-necked dove
Snipe Green sandpiper
28
Common robin-chat, Common bulbul (top-right)
Coot
11
14
15
25
27
African monarch flycatcher, White-eyed slaty flycatcher African firefinch
39 Marabou 40
African citril, Mousebird, Red-billed firefinch
Back cover: Lorem ipsum
Index of bird species
Front cover: African paradise monarch
2
Grey-capped warbler
5
African darter
6
Bronze mannikin
7
House sparrow
8
Black-headed weave (above), female blackheaded weaver (below)
9 10
Variable sunbird
16
Chaffinch
17
Cattle egret
18
House sparrow
19
Blue tit
13
Great cormorant, Great white egret Female bronze sunbird
29
African firefinch, African citril, Variable sunbird
41
House sparrow, Blackthroated wattle-eye, White-browed sparrowweaver
54 Chaffinch
56
Great tit
55 Blackcap
42
Goldfinch
57
Coal tit
30
Mistle thrush
43
Sand martin
58
Tufted duck
20–21 Mousebird
31
Olive thrush
44 Moorhen
59
Southern ground hornbill
22
Lilac-breasted roller
32
African paradise monarch
45
The Humber at Hull
60
Village indigo bird
23
Falcon
33
46
Pink-backed pelican
61
Herring gull
24
(Clockwise from left) Common bulbul, Yellowwhiskered greenbul, Olivaceous warbler, Red-billed firefinch, Hadada
White-eyed slaty flycatcher
47
Pochard
34
Pied crow
48
Greenfinch
35
Golden weaver
49
Great tit
36
Mousebird
50
37
Silvery-cheeked hornbill
Collared sunbird, African goshawks
38
Hamerkop
51
Hoopoe
52
Yellow-rumped tinkerbird, Streaky seedeater
53
Ring-necked dove
Snipe Green sandpiper
28
Common robin-chat, Common bulbul (top-right)
Coot
11
14
15
25
27
African monarch flycatcher, White-eyed slaty flycatcher African firefinch
39 Marabou 40
African citril, Mousebird, Red-billed firefinch
Back cover: Lorem ipsum
Option C Red text and spine
A Book of Birds by Humphrey Ocean
From his first sighting of a puffin, Humphrey Ocean has been attracted by the unusual behaviour and colour of birds, finding everyday British garden visitors in all their variety quite as exotic as those he sees in the hedgerows and lake near where he stays in Africa. In this collection, drawn from the notebooks, paintings and sketches he has made over the years, Ocean records, often on the wing, these mysterious and elusive creatures.
A Book of Birds by Humphrey Ocean