The Kruger National Park, one of the largest and best-known conservation areas in the world, supports a remarkable diversity of birds. This attractive and handy field guide lists more than 500 species that have been recorded here, and provides full-colour photographs, detailed distribution maps and succinct information on 400 of these - all the species that a visitor is likely to encounter in the park. An informative introduction describes the park's underlying geology, vegetation types, climate and rainfall, and how these dictate bird distributions within the area.

All-in-one guide to the birds of Kruger National Park;Comprehensive descriptions of 400 species;Lists a further 100 vagrants and rarely recorded species;Full-colour photographs for each species;Distribution maps accurately pinpoint recorded sightings

About the Author
Warwick Tarboton is a well-known bird expert and writer of several well received books. He is a past president of BirdLife South Africa and has been awarded the Gill Memorial Medal and the Stevenson-Hamilton award for services to ornithology and zoology. 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.


Book Information
ISBN 9781775844495
Author Warwick Tarboton
Format Paperback
Page Count 224
Imprint Struik Nature
Publisher Penguin Random House South Africa