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Birds of Greater Southern Africa.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Barnes, Keith.
- Series:
- Princeton Field Guides
- Princeton Field Guides ; v.163
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Birds--Africa, Southern--Geographical distribution.
- Birds.
- Birds--Africa, Southern--Identification--Pictorial works.
- Birds--Africa, Southern--Identification.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (0 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2024.
- Summary:
- A comprehensive illustrated field guide to the birds of Greater Southern AfricaThe vast region of Greater Southern Africa—which includes Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe—is home to a truly extraordinary diversity of birds. This spectacular field guide covers all of the region’s bird species—resident, breeding, migrant, and vagrant.Covers all 1,198 species recorded in the region, including details of all the plumages and races likely to be seenFeatures 272 color plates with more than 3,300 illustrationsIncludes concise species accounts that describe key identification features, racial variation, status, range, habitat, and voiceProvides an up-to-date distribution map for each species
- Contents:
- Cover
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Taxonomy and Nomenclature
- Species Variation
- Seasonality, Nomadism and Migration
- Landscapes, Topography and Habitats
- Species Accounts and Plates
- Conservation: Sites, Citizen Science and Local Knowledge
- Species Accounts
- Ostrich Struthionidae
- Darters Anhingidae
- Penguins Spheniscidae
- Albatrosses Diomedeidae
- Shearwaters and Petrels Procellariidae
- Northern Storm-Petrels Hydrobatidae
- Southern Storm-Petrels Oceanitidae
- Boobies and Gannets Sulidae
- Tropicbirds Phaethontidae
- Frigatebirds Fregatidae
- Pelicans Pelecanidae
- Grebes Podicipedidae
- Cormorants Phalacrocoracidae
- Bitterns, Herons and Egrets Ardeidae
- Hamerkop Scopidae
- Storks Ciconiidae
- Shoebill Balaenicipitidae
- Ibises and Spoonbills Threskiornithidae
- Flamingos Phoenicopteridae Generated by AI.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Part of the metadata in this record was created by AI, based on the text of the resource.
- ISBN:
- 9780691263496
- 0691263493
- OCLC:
- 1450108430
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