The Bird Guide of Southern Africa

The Bird Guide of Southern Africa features all southern African birds, except pelagics and vagrants in over 1200 excellent colour photographs.
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Book title: The Bird Guide of Southern Africa
Authors: Ulrich Oberprieler; Burger Cillié
Publisher: Game Parks Publishing
ISBN 9780620385503
Hatfield, South Africa 2008
Softcover, 15x22 cm, 432 pages, over 1200 colour photographs

 

Description:

This most comprehensive photographic guide to the birds of southern Africa features all southern African birds, except pelagics and vagrants in over 1200 excellent colour photographs, depicting all colour variations. A user-friendly, colour-coded system of bird groups describes the bird families and subgroups along with comprehensive text to facilitate identification and naming both new and old common names of birds . Also, symbols depicting basic information on each species and up-to-date distribution maps indicating relative abundance and migratory patterns are helpful tools to work with this excellent Bird Guide of Southern Africa.

This Bird Guide has the following unique characteristics:

  • • A user-friendly system of colour codes and cross references to find the correct bird in the book as quickly as possible.
  • • Over 1200 colour photos of 809 birds; differences between male, female, juvenile, breeding plumages.
    • Distribution maps that indicate the relative abundance and migratory pattern according to their external characteristics and behaviour, families and smaller groups.