A presentation (pdf file of a Power Point presentation; 5.0 MB) delivered by Michael Mills to the Angola Field Group in Luanda on 1 May 2014 titled "Bird Conservation in Angola: where to now?".

MILLS MSL. Submitted. Dusky Twinspot Euschistospiza cinereovinacea, a new host for Dusky Indigobird Vidua funerea from Angola. Bulletin of the African Bird Club. Click here to download at 140 s recording exhibiting extensive mimicry of Dusky Twinspot by Dusky Indigobird (1.6 MB). Sound snippets used to draw sonograms are available here: sonogram 1 (172 KB), sonogram 2 (1.0 MB), sonogram 3 (163 KB), sonogram 4 (593 KB).

MILLS MSL. Submitted. Observations of the rarely-seen aerial display of Short-winged Cisticola Cisticola brachypterus from Angola. Bulletin of the African Bird Club. Click here to download an 11 s sound snippet of noises made by Short-winged Cisticola during the dive phase of its diplay (62 KB).

MILLS MSL. In press. Vocal mimicry by sunbirds and the first record of mimicry by Dusky Sunbird Cinnyris fuscus. Ostrich. Click here to download a 34 s snipped of Dusky Sunbird song with imitation of several species of bird (527 KB).

MILLS MSL, P VAZ PINTO and PALMEIRIM JM. 2013. First records of Yellow-throated Cuckoo Chrysococcyx flavigularis, South African Cliff Swallow Petrochelidon spilodera and Red-tailed Leaflove Phyllastrephus scandens for Angola. Bulletin of the African Bird Club 20: 200-204. Click here to download a 12 s snippet of the recording (51 KB)

MILLS MSL, MELO M and VAZ A. 2011. Black-tailed Cisticola Cisticola melanurus in eastern Angola: behavioural notes and the first photos and sound recordings. Bulletin of the African Bird Club 18: 193-198. Click here to download a summary of sound recordings (1.0 MB)

MILLS MSL and DEAN WRJ. 2007. Notes on Angolan birds: new country records, range extensions and taxonomic questions. Ostrich 78: 55-63

Figure 2. The lathburyi (top) subspecies of Cassin's Honeybird Prodotiscus insignis is in fact a subspecies of Green-backed Honeybird P. zambesiae, here represented by three skins (below). Photograph taken by John Bates and Mary Hennen.

Figure 3. Three specimens of the niethammeri subspecies of Angola Lark Mirafra angolensis (right) alongside three specimens of the nominate subspecies (left). Photograph taken at the bird collection of the Instituto de Investigação Científica do Angola in Lubango. Their identity as M. angolensis is correct.

Figure 4.Three specimens of Black-necked Wattle-eye Dyaphorophyia chalybea, collected near Gabela, and now in the Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago. Photograph by David Willard, John Bates and Mary Hennen. Click here for an underside view of these specimens.

Figure 5. Pale-billed Firefinch Lagonosticta landanae (below) is almost identical to the very dark endemic race of Jameson’s Firefinch Lagonosticta rhodopareia ansorgei (top). Photograph taken at the bird collection of the Instituto de Investigação Científica do Angola in Lubango.

Appendix 1. Species that may occur in Angola, but are as yet unconfirmed. For species not mentioned in Dean (2000; see details therein), reasons for listing are given in this paper.

MILLS MSL and DOWD T. 2007. First records of Lemon Dove Aplopelia larvata for Angola. Bulletin of the African Bird Club 14(1): 77-78.

Call of Lemon Dove Aplopelia larvata, recorded 23 Sep 2005, Kumbira Forest, Cuanza Sul province: unaltered (right click and "Save Traget As...") and the same call filtered (right click and "Save Traget As...") with a cut-off filter employed for frequencies above 1500 Hz. Recording by Michael Mills (mp3 file, 290 KB)

MILLS MSL and COHEN C. 2007. Brazza’s Martin Phedina brazzae: new information on range and vocalisations. Ostrich 78: 51-54

Figure 3a and Figure 3b. Photographs of the Brazza's Martin Phedina brazzae skin in the collection of the Instituto de Investigação Cientifica do Angola, Lubango, taken by Michael Mills.

Figure 4. Photographs of Brazza's Martin Phedina brazzae near Salonga National Park, Democratic Republic of Congo, taken by Callan Cohen.

Figure 5. Photographs of open savanna patches between Guinea-Congolean Forest from the air and a close-up of a savanna patch where Brazza's Martin Phedina brazzae was seen near Salonga National Park, Democratic Republic of Congo, taken by Callan Cohen.