Birds of Southern Africa and Their Tracks and Signs

This book is a totally fresh approach to observing birds in southern Africa. It affords you the opportunity to gather previously inaccessible and indecipherable information in the form of tracks and signs left behind by our avifauna. The book explores the unique details of the spoor, or tracks, of many species of birds. This is done in multiple ways including by observing their droppings, examining their feeding behaviour as well as their general nesting structures. Skulls, feathers, beaks and eggshells are also occasionally encountered, and a few examples of these are included, as they also tell a story of a bird which has passed by. This approach to southern Africa’s birdlife will add tremendously to how we experience our wonderful avifauna.

It’s remarkable how tracks and signs in nature help you to enrich your knowledge of bird species, providing knowledge as straightforward as the shape of the individual nests of our various species of weaver, or the ability to recognise and understand the role of a drum-site in the life of a bearded woodpecker, or even being able to see the subtle signs of a cardinal woodpecker on the various acacia pods which host its larval food.

With funding received from the Oppenheimer family, 250 copies were donated to indigenous trackers, whose knowledge, Author Lee Gutteridge, appreciates and respects.

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Published in 2020, this field guide is a first of its kind for Southern Africa. In it, Lee Gutteridge has included bird track drawings from Louis Liebenberg’s pioneering A Field Guide to the Animal Tracks of Southern Africa, as well as new drawings by himself, and from wildlife artist Warren Cary, and American tracking author, Mark Elbroch. In addition to the drawings, there are hundreds of photos for the visual learner. The book is organized according to the foot structures of different types of birds, and then their size, with a handy index in the front.

This text is required for Course 4 in the Southern African Tracking Series, not included in the purchase of the course. You can purchase it as an eBook or a printed paperback. 

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