Roberts' Birds of Southern Africa by Gordon Lindsay Maclean (Signed 5th Edition)

ISBN: 9780620076814 / 062007681X - Roberts' Birds of Southern Africa by Gordon Lindsay Maclean (Signed 5th Edition), illustrated by Kenneth Newman & Geoff Lockwood. Published by Trustees of the John Voelcker Bird Book Fund, 1985. Hardcover. Used, Very condition. 848 pp.

Illustrating 891 species of birds in full colour, it incorporates a vast amount of information as well as a number of special features including:

• Two colour plates of species new to the Southern African list.
• Many new plates by Geoff Lockwood and Kenneth Newman, painted especially for this edition.
• Extended and updated text sections on identification.
• Several dichotomous keys and other aids to bird identification for beginners.
• New enlarged distribution maps in colour, showing at a glance whether a bird is resident (green), breeding migrant (blue), or non-breeding migrant (yellow).
• Sonograms of most vocalizations to aid interpretations of bird-calls, all fully explained in the introduction.
• Rainfall and vegetation maps in colour.
• Abbreviated text references to important works published on particular species or families of birds.

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