Southern African Birdfinder

Southern African Birdfinder PDF Author: Callan Cohen
Publisher: Struik
ISBN: 9781868727254
Category : Africa, Southern
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Book Description
The essential companion to all local bird field guides, this book fills a gap in the market for a comprehensive guide to the region's top birding spots and to finding southern Africa and Madagascar's most desirable birds.

Southern African Birdfinder

Southern African Birdfinder PDF Author: Callan Cohen
Publisher: Struik
ISBN: 9781868727254
Category : Africa, Southern
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Book Description
The essential companion to all local bird field guides, this book fills a gap in the market for a comprehensive guide to the region's top birding spots and to finding southern Africa and Madagascar's most desirable birds.

The Raptor Guide of Southern Africa

The Raptor Guide of Southern Africa PDF Author: Ulrich Oberprieler
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 308

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Suitable for every birdwatcher and raptorphile, this title describes various Southern African raptors, both diurnal and nocturnal species in a user-friendly system of 11 groups which are colour-coded and cross-referenced. It also features English, Afrikaans, French, German, Portuguese and scientific names.

A Comprehensive Illustrated Field Guide

A Comprehensive Illustrated Field Guide PDF Author: Ian Sinclair
Publisher: Struik Publishers
ISBN: 9781868728572
Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Birds of Africa South of the Sahara provides unrivalled coverage of African birds in a single volume, and is the first book to describe and illustrate all of the birds found in Africa south of the Sahara Desert (the Afrotropic Region), including Socotra, Pemba and islands in the Gulf of Guinea. * Some 2,105 species are covered, with an additional 70 vagrants briefly described, and more than 2,000 images assembled on 359 plates. * Illustrations portray most distinctive plumages, as well as diagnostic flight patterns and major geographic variants. * Species descriptions give precise identification features, highlighting differences between similar species, as well as briefly reporting habitat, status and calls. * Distribution maps for each species are based on the latest atlas surveys. * The most up-to-date taxonomy is used, with many new species described and illustrated for the first time. Despite its exceptional coverage, this guide is compact enough to use in the field, and follows the standard field guide format, with texts and range maps appearing opposite the color plates.

A Field Guide to the Tracks and Signs of Southern and East African Wildlife

A Field Guide to the Tracks and Signs of Southern and East African Wildlife PDF Author: Chris Stuart
Publisher: Struik Publishers
ISBN: 9781868725588
Category : Animal tracks
Languages : en
Pages : 310

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Every animal leaves some indication of its passing and by reading these signs fascinating information about the animal's behaviour can be understood. This field guide looks first at the track or sign and then determines the animal group or species.

Birds of South Africa

Birds of South Africa PDF Author: Austin Roberts
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages : 620

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Robins of Africa

Robins of Africa PDF Author: Terry Oatley
Publisher: Acorn Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 296

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Eagles of Africa

Eagles of Africa PDF Author: Johann Knobel
Publisher: Sunbird Publishers Limited
ISBN: 9781920289669
Category : Eagles
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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This book celebrates the eagles of Africa in evocative text and compelling photography. Features: colour photographs of 26 eagle species occurring on the African mainland - a first in publishing history; Informative but readable species accounts; Special essays, in images and words, on the hunt, breeding cycle, the eagle's day and the eagle's world; Eagle names in English, Afrikaans, French, German, Spanish, Swahili, Tswana and Zulu; Distribution maps, measurements, global conservation status; Anecdotes from the authors' experience in the field.

Call Collect, Ask for Birdman

Call Collect, Ask for Birdman PDF Author: James M. Vardaman
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 260

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Sunbirds

Sunbirds PDF Author: Clive F. Mann
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 140813568X
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 385

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Sunbirds is the first book since the 19th Century to cover in detail all the world's sunbirds and spiderhunters - the Nectarinidae. It also includes the allied families of flowerpeckers and sugarbirds; a total of 176 species is described and illustrated. The book has been designed to help readers identify all of these species and also their various subspecies, the most distinctive of which are illustrated as well as described. Each species account provides a distribution map, a summary of identification criteria and a description of how the species differs from similar ones. The calls and songs, habitat, geographical distribution, status, movements, food (including a list of known food plants), habits, and breeding biology are also described. Finally, a full description of the species and salient features of each subspecies is given, together with measurements and references. Sunbirds not only aids identification, it provides a wealth of information on the ecology and behaviour of these birds. The authors have carried out extensive fieldwork in Asia and Africa. They have also studied skins, nests and eggs held by museums, analysed tape recordings and critically reviewed the vast amount of material contained in books and scientific journals. The superb plates would not have been possible without the exhaustive study of specimens which, together with the use of photographs of living birds, has resulted in the artist, Richard Allen, capturing the essence of the birds, their 'jizz', and accurately portraying the beautiful, bright, often iridescent, plumages of these spectacular families.

A Fynbos Year

A Fynbos Year PDF Author: Michael Fraser
Publisher: New Africa Books
ISBN: 9780864866448
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 180

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Book Description
The southern and south-western Cape, which has a richer plant life than that of the whole British Isles, forms one of the major floral kingdoms of the world, and is home to a wide variety of birds, mammals, reptiles and insects. Liz McMahon's illustrations are complemented by Michael Fraser's text.