Kenya, a country only the size of Texas, has one of the richest avifaunas in Africa. This atlas is an explanatory overview of Kenya's 1065 species, essential both to the birdwatcher as a means of finding birds and interpreting the significance of field observations, and to the ornithologist as a standard reference work.

Presents scientific accounts of the 650 species known (including nearly 100 migrants from Eurasia). This title contains sections on distribution, ecology, status and movements, conservation, breeding seasons (where applicable) and taxonomy.