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Informationen zum Autor Ian Sinclair is recognised as one of Africa's foremost field birders and has lead many expeditions to find and research birds. He is the most published author on the birds of Africa and its adjacent islands and has written over 20 bird books. Ian Sinclair word erken as een van Afrika se voorste voëlkykers en het talle ekspedisies gelei om voëls op te spoor en na te vors. Hy is die mees gepubliseerde skrywer oor die voëls van Afrika en aanliggende eilande met meer as 20 voëlboeke agter sy naam. Peter Ryan is Director of the Percy FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology at the University of Cape Town. He is a keen bird photographer and has travelled widely in pursuit of birds. He is also the author and co-author of several books on birds and on Subantarctic Islands. Prof. Peter Ryan was awarded A-rating scientist status by the National Research Foundation in December 2016. This is the highest accolade in the NRF's rating system to rank researchers in the country. An A-rating implies an international leader in the field. The FitzPatrick Institute has never boasted an A-rated Director before and Peter is also the first A-rated ornithologist in South Africa. Klappentext Fully revised and updated, this guide features all 2,129 species found in the region, and all 101 vagrants are briefly described too. Zusammenfassung Provides coverage of African birds. This book describes and illustrates the birds found in Africa south of the Sahara Desert (the Afrotropic Region), including Socotra, Pemba and islands in the Gulf of Guinea. Compact enough to use in the field, it features texts and range maps that appear opposite the colour plates.
