Birds of Greater Southern Africa

Description

Author: Keith Barnes, John Fanshawe, and Terry Stevenson
ISBN: Birds of Greater Southern Africa
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Year of Publication: 2024
640 pages, 3,000 illustrations
Paperback

Birds of Greater Southern Africa, is a spectacular field guide covers all of the region’s bird species—resident, breeding, migrant, and vagrant.

The 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.

• Covers all 1,198 species recorded in the region, including details of all the plumages and races likely to be seen
• Features 272 color plates with more than 3,300 illustrations
• Includes concise species accounts that describe key identification features, racial variation, status, range, habitat, and voice
• Provides an up-to-date distribution map for each species
• 640 pages
• Paperback

About the authors: Keith Barnes is a bird tour leader for Tropical Birding and the author of Birds of Kruger National Park (Princeton WILDGuides), among other books. Terry Stevenson and John Fanshawe are leading avifauna conservationists based in Kenya. They are the authors of Birds of East Africa and, with Nigel Redman, Birds of the Horn of Africa (both Princeton).