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Overview
Praise for Princeton's previous edition: If you are headed to southern Africa for the first time, you can put this in your pocket and take it into the field, and it will give you an excellent overview."—Stuart Keith, Birding
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780691141695 |
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| Publisher: | Princeton University Press |
| Publication date: | 01/25/2009 |
| Series: | Princeton Illustrated Checklists |
| Pages: | 320 |
| Product dimensions: | 5.00(w) x 7.50(h) x 0.90(d) |
About the Author
Ber van Perlo has been traveling and living in Africa, mainly in Kenya, since his retirement from the Dutch National Forest Service in 1981. He has illustrated three bird guides: Megapodes, by René Dekker; Rails: A Guide to the Rails, Crakes, Gallinules and Coots of the World, by Barry Taylor; and A Field Guide to the Birds of the Indian Subcontinent, by Krys Kazmierczak.
Table of Contents
Introduction 7Parts of a bird 17
The Plates 19
Plates
1 Seabirds (Albatrosses and Giant Petrels)
2 Seabirds (Petrels and Shearwaters)
3 Seabirds (Petrels and Fulmar)
4 Seabirds (Prions and Storm-petrels)
5 Seabirds (Frigatebirds, Gannets and Boobies)
6 Waterbirds (Grebes, Sheathbill and Penguins)
7 Tropicbirds, Cormorants and Darter
8 Flamingos, large Herons, Shoebill and Pelicans
9 Small Herons, Night Herons, Bitterns and Egrets
10 Storks, Ibises and Hamerkop
11 Geese and Ducks 12 Ducks
13 Raptors (Goshawks and Sparrowhawks)
14 Raptors (Harriers, Kites and Gymnogene)
15 Raptors (Cuckoo Hawk and Buzzards)
16 Raptors (Fish Eagle, Osprey, Long-crested Eagle and Hawk Eagles)
17 Raptors (Bateleur, Serpent Eagle and Snake Eagles)
18 Raptors (True Eagles)
19 Raptors (Vultures, Martial Eagle and Crowned Eagle)
20 Raptors (Vultures)
21 Raptors (Bat Hawk and Falcons)
22 Raptors (Falcons and Kestrels)
23 Francolins, Spurfowl and Chukar
24 Rails (Rail, Gallinules, Moorhens, Coot, Crakes) and Guineafowl
25 Rails (Flufftails), Quails, Button-quails and Jacanas
26 Secretary bird, Cranes and Bustards
27 Shorebirds (`Pied' Shorebirds, Godwits, Curlews, Thick-knees and Turnstone)
28 Shorebirds (Plovers)
29 Shorebirds (Sandpipers and Stints)
30 Shorebirds (Lapwings, Buff-breasted Sandpiper, Ruff and Golden Plovers)
31 Shorebirds (Tringa-sandpipers, Common Sandpiper, Terek Sandpiper and Snipes)
32 Shorebirds (Pratincoles, Coursers and Phalaropes)
33 Skuas and large Gulls 34 Gulls
35 Terns and Skimmer
36 Tems and Noddies
37 Pigeons and Doves
38 Mousebirds,Sandgrouse, Lovebirds, Parrots and Hoopoe
39 Turacos, Go-away Birds, Rollers and Wood Hoopoes
40 Cuckoos
41 Nightjars
42 Owls and Coucals
43 Swifts and Spinetails
44 Bee-eaters and Hornbills
45 Crows and large Hornbills
46 Kingfishers and Trogons 47 Barbers
48 Honeyguides, Honeybirds, Broadbill, Tinkerbirds and Pitta
49 Woodpeckers and Wryneck 50 Larks
51 Larks 52 Swallows 53 Swallows, Saw-wings and Martins
54 Orioles, Babblers and Illadopsises
55 Greenbuls, Brownbuls and Bulbuls
56 Greenbuls, Drongos, Cuckooshrikes and Nicators
57 Thrushes (Wheatears, Chats and Scrub Robins)
58 Thrushes (Chats, Rock Thrushes, Redstart, Whinchat, Stonechat, Robins and Thrush Nightingale)
59 Thrushes (Cave Chat, Akalats, Anteater Chats, Alethes, Ant Thrushes) and Rockjumpers
60 Thrushes and Robin Chats
61 Warblers (Reed and other brownish Warblers)
62 Warblers (Eremomelas, Crombecs, Bleating and other small Warblers)
63 Warblers (Prinias, Yellow Warblers, Hylia, Grass and Moustached Warblers, Rockrunnc and Fairy Flycatcher
64 Warblers (Cisticolas)
65 Warblers (Cisticolas, Apalises and Tailorbirds)
66 Warblers (Longbills, Sylvias) and Monarch Flycatchers (Paradise, Crested and Blue Flycatchers)
67 Flycatchers
68 Hyliotas, Batises, Wattle-eyes and other Flycatchers
69 Sugarbirds, Creeper, Tits, and Sunbirds 70 Sunbirds
71 Sunbirds and White-eyes
72 Bush Shrikes and Tchagras
73 Puffbacks, Helmet Shrikes and Shrikes 74 Starlings
75 Pipits and Oxpeckers
76 Wagtails, Longclaws and Sparrow Larks
77 Sparrows, Petronia, Chaffinch, Buffalo & Sparrow Weavers and Buntings
78 Whydas, Bishops, Queleas and Malimbes
79 Weavers
80 Weavers and Estrild Finches
81 Eserild Finches
82 Estrild Finches
83 Finches (Canaries, Seedeaters and Siskins)
84 Birds of Cabinda
Distribution maps 202
Appendix of Portuguese and Afrikaans names 267
Bibliography and list of further reading 302
Indexes of English and scientific names 304
What People are Saying About This
Stuart Keith
Praise for Princeton's previous edition: "If you are headed to southern Africa for the first time, you can put this in your pocket and take it into the field, and it will give you an excellent overview.
— Stuart Keith, "Birding"
From the Publisher
Praise for Princeton's previous edition: If you are headed to southern Africa for the first time, you can put this in your pocket and take it into the field, and it will give you an excellent overview."—Stuart Keith, Birding
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