Bird and nature books

[Big Hilux]

Which bird and nature books do you read and find nice to use when comparing the actual bird or tree or plant or animal that you see while you are driving your 4x4 out on a game farm or 4x4 trail.

[Henris]

Which bird and nature books do you read and find nice to use when comparing the actual bird or tree or plant or animal that you see while you are driving your 4x4 out on a game farm or 4x4 trail.

Robertsons, Robertsons, Robertsons............

Any of the above three.......

[William62]

Sasol and Robertsons

[ELU]

Robertson & Sasol for Birds

Sasol has a set of small book(lets) called the Sasol Eerste Veldgids tot (Soogdiere/Spinnekoppe/Reptiele/Grassade/weer/ edelgesteentes/ensovoorts) which comes in very handy and informative. Not fully comprehensive, but for us as family it is sufficient. Books a bit larger than pocket size, therefore takea up little space. In same 'suitcase' as our binoc's.

If interested. look on the Kalahari.net website & do Search on "Sasol".
No, I don't get any commission out of this except the pleasure of seeing someone else also benefiting from the books.

[SimonB]

These books usually accompany me on trips (including one on Geology the title of which escapes me). I also have several other reference books, on these topics, but if I used them as guides their combined weight would exceed the maximum load weight of the colt

Sasol Birds of Southern Africa
Author: Ian Sinclair; Phil Hockey; Warwick Tarboton

Field guide to insects of South Africa
Author: Alan Weaving; Charles Griffiths; Mike Picker

Field Guide to Mammals of Southern Africa: Revised Edition
Author: Chris Stuart; Tilde Stuart

Field guide snakes and other reptiles of Southern Africa
Author: Bill Branch

Spiders of Southern Africa
Author: Astri leroy; John Leroy

Frogs and Frogging in Southern Africa
Author: Vincent Carruthers

How to identify trees in Southern Africa
Author: Braam Van Wyk; Piet Van Wyk

The story of earth and life: A Southern African Perspective on a 4.6-Billion-Year Journey
Author: Bruce Rubidge; Terence McCarthy (YOU HAVE TO READ THIS ONE!!)

[SimonB]

Robertsons, Robertsons, Robertsons.

No such book on Southern African Birds.

You must means Roberts...

[Henris]

No such book on Southern African Birds.

You must means Roberts...

Sorry

My mistake

[bushcamp]

Quote:
Originally Posted by henris
Robertsons, Robertsons, Robertsons.

No such book on Southern African Birds.

You must means Roberts...

It's part of the secret to the colonel's birds, I think.

[SimonB]

Quote:
Originally Posted by henris
Robertsons, Robertsons, Robertsons.



It's part of the secret to the colonel's birds, I think.

Bwahahahaaha!!!

I was going to say a similar thing but I was wondering if I was being corny 8)

[Berty]

has robertsons even got onto facing page pictures yet? newmans is so much more practical for field use.
and for trees get pooley. palgrave is the bible but just as impractical at robertsons. those are reference books.

[SimonB]

has robertsons even got onto facing page pictures yet?

It's ROBERTS!! (after J.Austin Roberts) and the new edition is not a field guide, it's a reference guide (like Palgrave or FitzSimons or Smithers).

newmans is so much more practical for field use.

Ugh.... nowhere near as good as Sasol, but far superior to Sinclair's photographic guide

[Spike]

Sasol Birds of Southern Africa
Author: Ian Sinclair; Phil Hockey; Warwick Tarboton

I've got a subsequent book by Sinclair, Field Guide Birds of Southern Africa.
It's quite difficult to find what you're looking for.