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Author : Charles Clinning
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)
Download or read book Southern African Bird Names Explained written by Charles Clinning and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Antonios Andreanidis
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1524636142
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (246 download)
Download or read book Scientific Names of Southern African Birds Explained written by Antonios Andreanidis and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2016-08-09 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ancient Greeks, Romans, Europeans, places, colours, parts of the body and much more are hidden behind strange sounds and words. We try to unveil this fascinating world and at the same time we aim to inspire love for the endangered natural world and the incredible world of human languages.
Author : Ian Sinclair
Publisher : Struik Pub
ISBN 13 : 9781868720330
Total Pages : 445 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (23 download)
Download or read book Sasol Birds of Southern Africa written by Ian Sinclair and published by Struik Pub. This book was released on 1997 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This field guide to the birds of Southern Africa incorporates many features to allow the reader to quickly and easily identify birds and find information about them. Each species account provides the bird's common name in English and Afrikaans, its scientific name, its Roberts number and its length. To help identify species, information is provided on plumage of the male, female and immature bird, typical behaviour, voice, habitat and nests and food. To make the information more accessible, entries are colour coded, reduced bird images make finding bird groups easier and a list of bird families in alphabetical order with their page references appears inside the front cover for quick reference. Recent discoveries and reclassifications are included and the text and maps have been updated.
Author : Kenneth Newman
Publisher : Penguin Random House South Africa
ISBN 13 : 1775848388
Total Pages : 2210 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (758 download)
Download or read book Newmans Birds by colour written by Kenneth Newman and published by Penguin Random House South Africa. This book was released on 2024-06-07 with total page 2210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Newman’s Birds by Colour offers beginner birders a quick and simple way to identify southern Africa’s most common birds using colour as a starting point. Now in its fourth edition, this handy illustrated guide has been updated to include the latest common names, expanded habitat information, and up-to-date distribution maps. An informative introduction provides practical tips for identifying birds, and includes information on bird anatomy and classification, and guidance on where to look for birds and what you need to go birding. Sales points: Fully revised – now with illustrations PLUS photographs. Use colour to ID birds. Bird names in indigenous languages too. Distribution maps for each species. Ideal for novice birders.
Author : Duncan Butchart
Publisher : Penguin Random House South Africa
ISBN 13 : 1775844757
Total Pages : 816 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (758 download)
Download or read book Garden Birds in Southern Africa written by Duncan Butchart and published by Penguin Random House South Africa. This book was released on 2017-11-01 with total page 816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This guide profiles 101 garden birds likely to be found in gardens across southern Africa, informing readers about what to look and listen for, and where and when. It is also an inspirational guide to creating a bird-friendly garden that is also a reservoir of biodiversity, wherever you are in the region. With an attractive layout and multiple colour images, it offers the following: Descriptions and photos of 101 garden birds. How to get to know your local species, their feeding, breeding, calls and general behavior. How to design your garden to attract the widest range of birds and other wildlife. The best plants and structures to provide food and shelter for birds. Detailed lists of recommended trees, shrubs, climbers, aloes and grasses.
Author : Doug Newman
Publisher : Penguin Random House South Africa
ISBN 13 : 1775846598
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (758 download)
Download or read book Southern African LBJs made simple written by Doug Newman and published by Penguin Random House South Africa. This book was released on 2021-02-05 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now updated and expanded, Southern African LBJs made simple offers a unique method for identifying and distinguishing the cryptic little birds that are known as ‘little brown jobs’. Using a three-stage process, the book guides readers through successive stages, each of which takes them closer to identifying the bird in question. As calls play a critical role in identification of these birds, individual calls and comparative tracks are included. The book features: NEW BIRD CALL ACCESS – instant access to calls using free downloadable call app to scan barcodes on the species pages. Concise text describing key ID criteria (such as size, habitat, habits, call and similar-looking and -sounding birds). Updated distribution maps and carefully labelled illustrations. This enhanced and updated new edition will be an invaluable guide for anyone who wants to be able to tell one LBJ from another. Sales points: invaluable resource for identifying cryptic birds; fully updated, with additional species and refined ID information; scan and play bird calls using free downloadable app.
Author : Adrian Koopman
Publisher : University of Kwazulu Natal Press
ISBN 13 : 9781869144258
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (442 download)
Download or read book Zulu Bird Names and Bird Lore written by Adrian Koopman and published by University of Kwazulu Natal Press. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Adrian Koopman describes the complex relationship between birds, the Zulu language, and Zulu culture. The book goes further than just Zulu names, exploring the underlying meanings of bird names from other South African languages and languages from Central and East Africa. A focus on Zulu traditional oral literature details the roles birds have played in Zulu praise poetry (including the praise poems of certain birds themselves) and in proverbs, riddles, and children's games. Also considered is traditional bird lore, examining the role played by various species as omens and portents, as indicators of bad luck and evil, as forecasters of rain and storm, and as harbingers of the seasons. Zulu Bird Names and Bird Lore discusses the Zulu Bird Name Project, a series of Zulu bird name workshops held between 2013 and 2017 with Zulu-speaking bird guides designed to confirm (or otherwise) all previously recorded Zulu names for birds, while at the same time devising new names for those without previously recorded names. The result has been a list of species-specific names for all birds in the Zulu-speaking region. Finally, the book turns to the role such new bird names can play in conservation education and in avi-tourism.
Author : Nancy J. Jacobs
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300209614
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Birders of Africa written by Nancy J. Jacobs and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2016-01-01 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- N -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z
Author : Bo Beolens
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 147298269X
Total Pages : 626 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (729 download)
Download or read book The Eponym Dictionary of Birds written by Bo Beolens and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-03-19 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive dictionary listing all the people whose names are commemorated in the English and scientific names of birds. Birdwatchers often come across bird names that include a person's name, either in the vernacular (English) name or latinised in the scientific nomenclature. Such names are properly called eponyms, and few people will not have been curious as to who some of these people were (or are). Names such as Darwin, Wallace, Audubon, Gould and (Gilbert) White are well known to most people. Keener birders will have yearned to see Pallas's Warbler, Hume's Owl, Swainson's Thrush, Steller's Eider or Brünnich's Guillemot. But few people today will have even heard of Albertina's Myna, Barraband's Parrot, Guerin's Helmetcrest or Savigny's Eagle Owl. This extraordinary work lists more than 4,000 eponymous names covering 10,000 genera, species and subspecies of birds. Every taxon with an eponymous vernacular or scientific name (whether in current usage or not) is listed, followed by a concise biography of the person concerned. These entries vary in length from a few lines to several paragraphs, depending on the availability of information or the importance of the individual's legacy. The text is punctuated with intriguing or little-known facts, unearthed in the course of the authors' extensive research. Ornithologists will find this an invaluable reference, especially to sort out birds named after people with identical surnames or in situations where only a person's forenames are used. But all birders will find much of interest in this fascinating volume, a book to dip into time and time again whenever their curiosity is aroused.
Author : James A. Jobling
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1408133261
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (81 download)
Download or read book Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names written by James A. Jobling and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2010-06-30 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive dictionary of the meaning and derivation of scientific bird names. Many scientific bird names describe a bird's habits, habitat, distribution or a plumage feature, while others are named after their discoverers or in honour of prominent ornithologists. This extraordinary work of reference lists the generic and specific name for almost every species of bird in the world and gives its meaning and derivation. In the case of eponyms brief biographical details are provided for each of the personalities commemorated in the scientific names. This fascinating book is an outstanding source of information which will both educate and inform, and may even help to understand birds better.
Author : Peter E Raper
Publisher : Jonathan Ball Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1868425509
Total Pages : 1276 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (684 download)
Download or read book Dictionary of Southern African Place Names written by Peter E Raper and published by Jonathan Ball Publishers. This book was released on 2014-12-08 with total page 1276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Dictionary of Southern African Place Names - now in its 4th edition - helps you sort your Komkhulu from your Kommetjie with the most comprehensive glossary of Southern African towns, villages, railway stations, mountains, rivers and beaches. The 9 000 short entries incorporate data from sources dating as far back as 1486, encapsulating the linguistic and cultural heritage of all the peoples of the subcontinent, past and present. In this highly readable book the expert authors take you on a fascinating journey of the highways and byways of Southern Africa. Whether you are a motorist, an adventurer or merely an armchair traveller, this book has a multitude of facts and details that will fascinate you. This is much more than a reference book - it gives an insight into what shapes a place and its people through our heroes, events, beliefs, values, fears and aspirations.
Author : L. C. Rookmaaker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book François Levaillant and the Birds of Africa written by L. C. Rookmaaker and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : L. C. Rookmaaker
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 9061918677
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (619 download)
Download or read book The Zoological Exploration of Southern Africa 1650-1790 written by L. C. Rookmaaker and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 1989-06-01 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 18th century witnessed a new interest in African animals. Research was undertaken at the Cape of Good Hope by explorers whose books, manuscripts and drawings concerning mammals and birds are listed and discussed within this text.;This text gives details on four collections of 300 mammal and bird drawings connected with Levaillant's research. Many examples are illustrated. The zoological contents of the material left by these seven explorers are analyzed for all mammals and birds emphasizing the history, taxonomy, nomenclature and zoogeography.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Report of the Annual Meeting of the South African Association for the Advancement of Science written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Leopold Wagner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)
Download or read book Names and Their Meaning written by Leopold Wagner and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alwin Karl Haagner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Sketches of South African Bird-life written by Alwin Karl Haagner and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ian Fraser
Publisher : CSIRO PUBLISHING
ISBN 13 : 1486311652
Total Pages : 589 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (863 download)
Download or read book Australian Bird Names written by Ian Fraser and published by CSIRO PUBLISHING. This book was released on 2019-09-02 with total page 589 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second edition of Australian Bird Names is a completely updated checklist of Australian birds and the meanings behind their common and scientific names, which may be useful, useless or downright misleading! For each species, the authors examine the many-and-varied common names and full scientific name, with derivation, translation and a guide to pronunciation. Stories behind the name are included, as well as relevant aspects of biology, conservation and history. Original descriptions, translated by the authors, have been sourced for many species. As well as being a book about names, this is a book about the history of the ever-developing understanding of birds, about the people who contributed to this understanding and, most of all, about the birds themselves. This second edition has been revised to follow current taxonomy and understanding of the relationships between families, genera and species. It contains new taxa, updated text and new vagrants and will be interesting reading for anyone with a love of birds, words or the history of Australian biology and bird-watching.
