Roberts Bird Guide: A Comprehensive Field Guide Over 950 Bird Species in Southern Africa - Softcover

Upfold, Guy; Chittenden, Hugh

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0620383135 ISBN 13: 9780620383134

Publisher: John Voelcker Bird Book Fund, 2007

Synopsis

The Roberts guide comprises some 185 individual plates, all annotated to highlight key identifying characters and all accompanied by field texts drawn from the most up-to-date information known about the birds of Southern Africa. In addition to the texts, each species account has a colour map showing distribution and relative abundance. Also included are be breeding bars below the maps which indicate the prime breeding times for relevant species. Included, too, are name indices for 13 languages, including Portuguese, German, French, Zulu, Swasi, Afrikaans and many more. A handy quick index on the inside front cover helps locate the correct entries with ease. This field guide has drawn extensively from the 7th edition of Roberts Birds of Southern Africa. The original plates were amended and added to to create superb plates for this field guide.

Edition details

• Publisher: John Voelcker Bird Book Fund
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0620383135
• ISBN 13: 9780620383134
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 456