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RFI best bird guide for southern africa

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Subject: RFI best bird guide for southern africa
From: Tom Tarrant <>
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 17:00:49 +1000
In 1983 whilst looking through a bookshop in Salisbury, England I came
across Ken Newman's Birds of Southern Africa, and impressed me so much I
flew to Johannesburg, got a job and birded there for nearly a year.  In my
first week I was invited to a meeting of the Wits Bird Club and met the
author who informed me that (at the time) the publishers had only sent over
a handful of copies to the UK!

I still think it is one of the most usable bird-guides of the region,  found
a relatively commercially-free site here
http://www.gardenbirds.co.za/books.htm (hope I'm not crossing Russell's
guidelines!)

Tom

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