Roberts Birds of Southern Africa by Gordon Lindsay Maclean

ISBN: 9780620175838

New Holland Publishers Ltd, 01 April 1997

871 pages, Hardback

Roberts Birds of Southern Africa – Gordon Lindsay Maclean

This completely revised 6th Edition of Roberts’ Birds of Southern Africa brings the text fully up to date to the end of January 1992. Illustrating 907 species of birds in full colour, it incorporates a vast amount of new information as well as a number of special features:

(a) new colour plates of species added to the southern African list since the last edition;

(b) several revised colour plates by Geoff Lockwood, painted especially for this edition;

(c) extended and updated text sections on identification, measurements, distribution, habits and breeding;

(d) dichotomous identification keys to nearly all the groups of birds, placed together on easily distinguishable coloured pages before the colour plates;

(e) family indexes on the endpapers for quick reference to pages and plates;

(f) revised and updated distribution maps in colour, showing at a glance whether a bird is resident (green), breeding migrant (blue) or nonbreeding migrant (yellow);

(g) sonagrams of nearly all significant vocalizations to aid interpretation of birdcalls, all fully explained in the Introduction;

(h) revised and corrected bird names in English, Afrikaans, eight African languages and German;

(i) rainfall and vegetation maps in colour;

(j) abbreviated text references to important works published on particular species or families of birds. The text is the result of years of research and writing by Professor Gordon Maclean and will remain the definitive handbook of southern African birds for years to come.