What's that Bird? A starter's guide to birds of southern Africa

What's that Bird? A starter's guide to birds of southern Africa offers an easy entry into bird identification in southern Africa.
Newman, Kenneth
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Titel: What's that Bird?
Subtitel: A starter's guide to birds of southern Africa
Author: Kenneth Newman
Publisher: Random House Struik
Imprint: Struik Nature
Cape Town, South Africa 2003
ISBN 186872879X / ISBN 1-86-872879-X
ISBN 9781868728794 / ISBN 978-1-86872-879-4
Softcover, 17 x 25 cm, 140 pages, throughout colour illustrations

About: What's that Bird? A starter's guide to birds of southern Africa

What's that Bird? A starter's guide to birds of southern Africa offers the budding birder an easy entry into the often bewildering world of bird identification. Simple and direct in its approach, it groups birds according to family likeness or common habitat or, occasionally, species that are likely to be confused with one another. Well-known for his popular field guide to southern African birds, Ken Newman has made a selection here of birds that many people see near home or in day-to-day traveling.

However, some birds have been included that live in specific habitats and must be looked for there. For convenience and to suggest the way forward for a ‘starter’, the various groups have been arranged in broad divisions beginning with ‘Gardens and parks’ and ending with ‘Birds that are more difficult to identify’. On its own or used with a field guide, What's that Bird? A starter's guide to birds of southern Africa is an excellent introduction to the birds of the region and a solid base from which to launch an interest in birding.

Kenneth Newman is a renowned bird painter and ornithologist who has contributed largely to the increased interest in and awareness of birds in recent years. His numerous books have sold close to a million copies worldwide. He is a past president of the South African Ornithological Society and a recipient of the SAOS Gill Memorial Award and the Zoological Society's Stevenson-Hamilton Award. He is currently President of BirdLife SA.

Contents: What's that Bird? A starter's guide to birds of southern Africa

Introduction
Urban areas
Common doves
Pigeons
Common bulbuls
White-eyes
Sparrows
Mousebirds
Thrushes
Chats & robins
Barbets
Starlings
Common weavers
Sunbirds
True shrikes
Wagtails
African Hoopoe & woodhoopoes
Prinia & prinia-like warblers
Swallows & martins
Crows
Inland waters
Cormorants & African Darter
Herons, egrets & bitterns
Ducks & geese
Stilt, Avocet & jacanas
Flamingoes & Hamerkop
Ibises & African Spoonbill
Kingfishers
Plovers
Rails, crakes & grebes
Storks
Widows & bishops
Cranes
Woodlands & bush
Common bee-eaters
Common hornbills
Drongoes & similar black birds
Flycatchers & batises
Rollers
Bush shrikes & boubou shrikes
Tchagras & helmet shrikes
Turacos & go-away birds
Babblers
Woodpeckers & Wryneck
Canaries & siskins
Owls
Parrots & lovebirds
Orioles
Common buntings
Cuckoos & coucals
Swifts
Waxbills, finches & mannikins
Whydahs, widow finches & Cuckoo Finch
Rock-jumpers
Rockrunner
Common tits
Sugarbirds
Oxpeckers
Secretarybird
Grasslands & drylands
Francolins & guineafowls
Bustards & korhaans
More chats & wheatears
Longclaws
Dikkops
Seashores & estuaries
Gulls & terns
Pelicans, Gannet & Oystercatcher
Difficult to identify
Difficult to find
References
Index

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