Roberts’ Birds of Southern Africa (Sixth Edition) by Gordon Lindsay Maclean

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Roberts’ Birds of Southern Africa (Sixth Edition) by Gordon Lindsay Maclean

ISBN: 9780620175838

Illustrated by Kenneth Newman and Geoff Lockwood. Published by The Trustees of the John Voelcker Bird Book Fund, 1993. 871 pages.

Illustrating 907 species of birds in full colour, it incorporates a vast amount of new information as well as a number of special features:

• new colour plates of species
• extended and updated text sections on identification, measurements, distribution, habits and breeding
• dichotomous identification keys to nearly all the groups of birds
• revised and updated distribution maps in colour, showing whether a bird is resident, breeding migrant or nonbreeding migrant
• revised and corrected bird names in English, Afrikaans, eight African languages and German.