Important Bird Areas in Africa and Associated Islands. Priority Sites for Conservation: L.D.C. Fishpool and M.I. Evans (Eds.). Sixteen pages of colour photographs and maps; many tabulations, 10 appendices, maps and illustrations. Birdlife Conservation Series No. 11, Newbury and Cambridge: Pisces Publications & BirdLife International, 2001, xvi+1144 pp. ISBN 1-874357-20-X (hardback). Price £55.00