Publisher's Synopsis
This new larger edition is based on the recently updated fourth edition of the standard-format Sasol Birds of Southern Africa. The region's best-selling, most comprehensively illustrated and trusted field guide, it offers rewritten species accounts, now with group introductions; newly designed plates for ease of use and comparison; over 380 new improved illustrations; illustrations with simplified labels, pinpointing key differentiating features; updated distribution maps showing relative abundance and indicating resident or migrant status; and calendar bars showing species' occurrence and breeding periods, and sonograms depicting the calls of difficult-to-distinguish birds that have distinctive calls.
