First Field Guide to Common Birds of Southern Africa
Author : Tracey Hawthorne
Publisher :
Page : 57 pages
File Size : 36,96 MB
Release :
Category : Birds
ISBN : 9781775844129
Sasol First Field Guide to Common Birds of Southern Africa
Author : Tracey Hawthorne
Publisher : Penguin Random House South Africa
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 15,44 MB
Release : 2012-07-27
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1431702536
Book Description
Sasol First Field Guide to Common Birds of Southern Africa provides fascinating insight into the birdlife of the region. Through full-colour photographs and distribution maps, and easy-to-read text, the young adult and budding naturalist will be able to identify the more common bird species found in southern Africa, discover where they live, and learn about their unique feeding and nesting habits.
Sasol First Field Guide to Spiders & Scorpions of Southern Africa
Author : Tracey Hawthorne
Publisher : Penguin Random House South Africa
Page : 119 pages
File Size : 39,37 MB
Release : 2014-06-04
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1775842177
Book Description
Sasol First Field Guide to Spiders & Scorpions of Southern Africa provides fascinating insight into the arachnids of the region. Through full-colour photographs and easy-to-read text, the young adult and budding naturalist will be able to identify the more common species found in southern Africa, discover where they live, and learn about their unique habits.
Field Guide to Birds of Greater Southern Africa
Author : Keith Barnes
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 1605 pages
File Size : 30,32 MB
Release : 2024-02-29
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1472984021
Book Description
This spectacular field guide includes all resident, breeding and migrant species found in Greater Southern Africa. Comprising South Africa, Lesotho, eSwatini, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Malawi, Mozambique and Zambia, Greater Southern Africa is a vast region home to a truly extraordinary diversity of avifauna. The latest in the Helm Field Guide series, Birds of Greater Southern Africa describes all 1,170 regularly occurring species that are likely to be encountered in the region, from the Wandering Albatross to the Pennant-winged Nightjar. Featuring 272 colour plates by three of the world's leading bird illustrators, this practical guide also includes concise species accounts describing key identification features, status, range, habitat and voice; distribution maps for each species are also included. Fully illustrated throughout, this is an essential reference guide for anyone visiting or living in this wildlife-rich area.
A Field Guide to Birds of the Gambia and Senegal
Author : Clive Barlow
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 22,89 MB
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780300115741
Book Description
This comprehensive book is the first field guide to the birds of The Gambia and Senegal, an area of West Africa popular with birders for its many tropical African birds. The guide provides full accounts of over 660 bird species and depicts nearly all of these in 48 beautiful color plates. "A first-rate book that is a fine contribution to bird literature. For the birder who has everything, this makes a great gift.”--Roy John, Canadian Field-Naturalist "A beautiful, succinct and very useful guide to the region's bird life."--Clay E. Corbin, Quarterly Review of Biology
Field Guide to the Birds of East Africa
Author : Terry Stevenson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 31,70 MB
Release : 2020-11-12
Category : Science
ISBN : 1472986628
Book Description
This spectacular new edition of the best-selling Helm field guide of all time covers all resident, migrant and vagrant species found in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi. Over 1,300 species are illustrated with full details of all the plumages and major races likely to be encountered. Concise text describes the identification, status, range, habits and voice, with fully updated range maps for each species. This authoritative book will not only be an indispensable guide to the visiting birder, but also a vital tool for those engaged in work to conserve and study the avifauna of the region – East Africa shelters a remarkable diversity of birds, many seriously endangered with small and vulnerable ranges.
Roberts Bird Guide
Author : Hugh Chittenden
Publisher :
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 50,22 MB
Release : 2011-03-10
Category :
ISBN : 9781770097148
Book Description
A comprehensive field guide to over 950 bird species in southertn Africa.This is the first comprehensive field guide in southern Africa that gives information on food and breeding strategies. Included too, are the meaning of scientisfic names(Etymology) and colloquail names in 13 languages
Newmans Birds by colour
Author : Kenneth Newman
Publisher : Penguin Random House South Africa
Page : 2210 pages
File Size : 12,77 MB
Release : 2024-06-07
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1775848388
Book Description
Newman’s Birds by Colour offers beginner birders a quick and simple way to identify southern Africa’s most common birds using colour as a starting point. Now in its fourth edition, this handy illustrated guide has been updated to include the latest common names, expanded habitat information, and up-to-date distribution maps. An informative introduction provides practical tips for identifying birds, and includes information on bird anatomy and classification, and guidance on where to look for birds and what you need to go birding. Sales points: Fully revised – now with illustrations PLUS photographs. Use colour to ID birds. Bird names in indigenous languages too. Distribution maps for each species. Ideal for novice birders.
Field Guide to Birds of Western Africa
Author : Nik Borrow
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 1789 pages
File Size : 47,98 MB
Release : 2020-07-09
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1472982878
Book Description
A major revision of the first comprehensive field guide to cover the birds of this exciting region, this book will enable birders to identify any species found in any of the countries covered. Birds of Western Africa (Helm, 2001) was the first single-volume guide to cover all the species of this region, which comprises 23 countries from Senegal and southern Mauritania east to Chad and the Central African Republic, and south to Congo. This updated edition uses all of the illustrations from Birds of Western Africa, along with a number of new paintings. The book also has updated colour distribution maps for each species placed on the text pages for the first time. On facing pages, concise, authoritative text aids identification to create a conveniently-sized, lightweight field reference covering all 1300 species found in the region. This handy guide will enable birders to identify any species found in any of the countries covered.
Birds of Africa, South of the Sahara
Author : Ian Sinclair
Publisher : Penguin Random House South Africa
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,2 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781770076235
Book Description
Fully revised and updated, this guide features all 2,129 species found in the region, and all 101 vagrants are briefly described too.
