Complete Photographic Field Guide Birds of Southern Africa

Name: Complete Photographic Field Guide Birds of Southern Africa - Penguin Random House South Africa
SKU: 9781775846260
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Ian Sinclair, Peter Ryan

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About the book

The most comprehensive photographic guide of southern Africa’s birds in one volume, this brings a new dimension to bird ID in the region. It describes and illustrates all 958 birds, plus 17 species from Antarctica and Southern Ocean islands. Over 2,500 photographs show plumage variations and colour morphs. Text by Africa’s top birding authors focuses on identification, call, habitat, status, breeding and diet. Distribution maps show migratory status and bird density, and calendar bars show species’ prevalence and breeding. An indispensable companion in the field.

About the Author

Ian Sinclair

Ian Sinclair is recognised as one of Africa’s foremost field birders and has lead many expeditions to find and research birds. He is the most published author on the birds of Africa and its adjacent islands and has written over 20 bird books.Ian Sinclair word erken as een van Afrika se voorste voëlkykers en het talle ekspedisies gelei om voëls op te spoor en na te vors. Hy is die mees gepubliseerde skrywer oor die voëls van Afrika en aanliggende eilande met meer as 20 voëlboeke agter sy naam.

Peter Ryan

Peter Ryan is Director of the Percy FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology at the University of Cape Town. He is a keen bird photographer and has travelled widely in pursuit of birds. He is also the author and co-author of several books on birds and on Subantarctic Islands.