Science: Prescribed, Recommended & Open Textbooks: APES 3061: Biology of Southern African Birds

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APES 3061: Biology of Southern African Birds - Prescribed & Recommended Textbooks

2nd Semester; Block 3

Strongly/Highly Recommended textbooks

Ornithology for Africa - 1991 edition by Gordon L. Maclean
ISBN: 9780869807712

Focusing on the southern hemisphere, using African examples, this book is written for users on the southern side of the equator, and puts Africa in the lead in this regard. The chapters cover the origin of birds, flight, feeding adaptations, zoogeography, ecology, migration, behaviour, and breeding biology.