A comprehensive photo guide with text boxes describing each bird's traits, behavior, and migration. Forty-seven brilliant color photos (including 23 with two photos of varying plumages) and comprehensive text for each bird, including common and scientific names, habitat, interesting facts, and size statistics.
Utilizing a holistic approach to identifying different birds, a guide to shorebirds explains how to use such characteristics as general color patterns, size, structure, and behavior to determine an avian species, in a handy resource that ...
This unique new guide will help identify the more common waders in South Africa and will appeal to both experienced birders and novices.