Everyone's Guide to South African Birds
Authors: John Sinclair and John Mendelsohn
Photographs: Peter Johnson
Number of pages: 124
Year published: 1981
Edition: 1st
Published by: Central News Agency (Pty) Ltd
Hardcover
ISBN: 0 620 05218 X
For more information: CNA
The Wildebeest's Review of "Everyone's Guide to South African Birds"
This Wildebeest has a busy schedule but he will get round to reviewing this publication one day.
Some of the subjects in this publication
Rock Dove - Page: 14Speckled Pigeon - Page: 14
Red-eyed Dove - Page: 14
Laughing Dove - Page: 14
Crowned Lapwing - Page: 14
Red-faced Mousebird - Page: 16
Speckled Mousebird - Page: 16
Brown-hooded Kingfisher - Page: 17
Little Bee-eater - Page: 17
Little Swift - Page: 18
Black-collared Barbet - Page: 18
African Hoopoe - Page: 18
Acacia Pied Barbet - Page: 18
Pied Crow - Page: 18
Dark-capped Bulbul - Page: 21
Cape Robin-Chat - Page: 21
Olive Thrush - Page: 21
Cape Bulbul - Page: 21
Cape Wagtail - Page: 23
Common Starling - Page: 23
Common Myna - Page: 23
Common Fiscal - Page: 23
Cape White-eye - Page: 24
House Sparrow - Page: 24
Cape Sparrow - Page: 24
White Stork - Page: 26
Secretarybird - Page: 26
Cattle Egret - Page: 26
Black-headed Heron - Page: 26
Helmeted Guineafowl - Page: 29
Swainsons Spurfowl - Page: 29
Black-shouldered Kite - Page: 29
Grey Crowned Crane - Page: 31
Blue Crane - Page: 31
Spotted Thick-knee - Page: 31
Southern Black Korhaan - Page: 31
Blacksmith Lapwing - Page: 31
Barn Swallow - Page: 32
Rufous-naped Lark - Page: 32
Red-capped Lark - Page: 32
South African Cliff-Swallow - Page: 33
Banded Martin - Page: 33
African Stonechat - Page: 35
Ant-eating Chat - Page: 35
Capped Wheatear - Page: 35
Cape Crow - Page: 35
African Pipit - Page: 36
Cape Longclaw - Page: 36
Pied Starling - Page: 36
Red-billed Quelea - Page: 37
Long-tailed Widowbird - Page: 38
Common Waxbill - Page: 38
Reed Cormorant - Page: 40
African Darter - Page: 40
Great White Pelican - Page: 40
White-breasted Cormorant - Page: 40
Grey-headed Gull - Page: 42
Hamerkop - Page: 42
Great Egret - Page: 43
Goliath Heron - Page: 43
Cape Teal - Page: 45
Little Grebe - Page: 45
Yellow-billed Duck - Page: 45
African Spoonbill - Page: 45
African Sacred Ibis - Page: 45
Spur-winged Goose - Page: 46
White-faced Duck - Page: 46
Egyptian Goose - Page: 46
Red-billed Teal - Page: 47
African Marsh-Harrier - Page: 47
Three-banded Plover - Page: 48
Red-knobbed Coot - Page: 48
Common Moorhen - Page: 48
African Jacana - Page: 49
Wood Sandpiper - Page: 50
White-winged Tern - Page: 50
Southern Red Bishop - Page: 50
Cape Weaver - Page: 51
Pied Kingfisher - Page: 52
Levaillants Cisticola - Page: 52
Malachite Kingfisher - Page: 53
Marabou Stork - Page: 54
Tawny Eagle - Page: 54
White-backed Vulture - Page: 54
Black Kite - Page: 54
Yellow-billed Kite - Page: 54
Cape Turtle-Dove - Page: 57
Lizard Buzzard - Page: 57
Wahlbergs Eagle - Page: 57
Crested Francolin - Page: 57
Diderick Cuckoo - Page: 58
Emerald-spotted Wood-Dove - Page: 58
Meyers Parrot - Page: 58
Grey Go-away-bird - Page: 59
Verreauxs Eagle-Owl - Page: 60
Pearl-spotted Owlet - Page: 60
Lilac-breasted Roller - Page: 61
European Bee-eater - Page: 61
Woodland Kingfisher - Page: 61
White-fronted Bee-eater - Page: 61
Red-billed Hornbill - Page: 62
Green Wood-Hoopoe - Page: 62
Crested Barbet - Page: 63
Southern Ground-Hornbill - Page: 63
Sabota Lark - Page: 64
Groundscraper Thrush - Page: 64
Arrow-marked Babbler - Page: 64
White-browed Scrub-Robin - Page: 64
Fork-tailed Drongo - Page: 64
Long-billed Crombec - Page: 66
Rattling Cisticola - Page: 66
Neddicky - Page: 66
Crimson-breasted Shrike - Page: 67
Chinspot Batis - Page: 67
White-crested Helmet-Shrike - Page: 68
Brown-crowned Tchagra - Page: 68
Red-backed Shrike - Page: 68
Cape Glossy Starling - Page: 69
Marico Sunbird - Page: 69
Scarlet-chested Sunbird - Page: 70
Red-headed Weaver - Page: 70
Violet-eared Waxbill - Page: 71
Southern Masked-Weaver - Page: 71
Golden-breasted Bunting - Page: 72
Blue Waxbill - Page: 72
Cape Vulture - Page: 74
Southern Bald Ibis - Page: 74
Spotted Eagle-Owl - Page: 77
Verreauxs Eagle - Page: 77
Rock Kestrel - Page: 77
Jackal Buzzard - Page: 77
Mountain Wheatear - Page: 78
African Black Swift - Page: 78
Cape Rock-jumper - Page: 78
Sentinel Rock-Thrush - Page: 79
Red-winged Starling - Page: 80
Bokmakierie - Page: 80
Cape Grassbird - Page: 80
Cape Sugarbird - Page: 82
Gurneys Sugarbird - Page: 82
Malachite Sunbird - Page: 83
Cinnamon-breasted Bunting - Page: 84
Orange-breasted Sunbird - Page: 84
Black-browed Albatross - Page: 86
Cape Gannet - Page: 86
African Penguin - Page: 86
Cape Cormorant - Page: 88
Bank Cormorant - Page: 88
Little Egret - Page: 89
African Fish-Eagle - Page: 91
Lesser Flamingo - Page: 91
Greater Flamingo - Page: 91
African Black Oystercatcher - Page: 92
Ruddy Turnstone - Page: 93
White-fronted Plover - Page: 93
Pied Avocet - Page: 94
Sanderling - Page: 94
Common Whimbrel - Page: 94
Black-winged Stilt - Page: 97
Kelp Gull - Page: 97
Hartlaubs Gull - Page: 97
Common Tern - Page: 98
Swift Tern - Page: 98
South African Shelduck - Page: 100
Lanner Falcon - Page: 100
Pygmy Falcon - Page: 100
Southern Pale Chanting Goshawk - Page: 103
Steppe Buzzard - Page: 103
Swallow-tailed Bee-eater - Page: 104
Fawn-coloured Lark - Page: 104
Double-banded Courser - Page: 104
Namaqua Sandgrouse - Page: 105
Namaqua Dove - Page: 105
Pale-winged Starling - Page: 106
Karoo Prinia - Page: 106
Black-chested Prinia - Page: 106
Scaly-feathered Finch - Page: 109
Sociable Weaver - Page: 109
Dusky Sunbird - Page: 109
Black-headed Canary - Page: 110
Shaft-tailed Whydah - Page: 110
Black-faced Waxbill - Page: 110
Yellow Canary - Page: 112
Lark-like Bunting - Page: 112
Long-crested Eagle - Page: 114
Hadeda Ibis - Page: 115
African Crowned Eagle - Page: 115
African Green-Pigeon - Page: 116
Knysna Turaco - Page: 116
African Goshawk - Page: 116
Trumpeter Hornbill - Page: 119
Burchells Coucal - Page: 119
Black-headed Oriole - Page: 119
Red-capped Robin-Chat - Page: 120
Sombre Greenbul - Page: 120
Collared Sunbird - Page: 123
Ashy Flycatcher - Page: 123
Bar-throated Apalis - Page: 123
Black-backed Puffback - Page: 123
Southern Boubou - Page: 123
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