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Featherings : True Stories in Search of Birds by Vernon R. L. Head; Vernon R.L. Head is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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The southernmost tip of Africa is home to a vast and shifting population of birds whose soaring movements and flocks are closely followed by a human flock: the entranced and captivated ornithologists, birdwatchers and seekers of wilderness.If the bird writings of Le Vaillant turned a generation of young European readers into ornithologists this remarkable collection of birding curiosities written by some of our most intrepid bird observers will convert a new generation of South African readers.They write of being enthralled: tales of a trip on the wild side of Borneo, the stories behind feathers in a glass vase, mysteries of owls hidden in caves, they journey across the mesas and buttes of the Karoo and the rolling red dunes of the Kalahari, through vast swathes of broad-leafed woodland to the Upper Guinea Rainforests and on to the Kitugala Forest Reserve.Birds and their names sing from the pages; owls, shoebills, sandgrouse, hooded pittas, rhinoceros hornbills, brown kiwis, rock doves, Cape eagle owls, greater flameback woodpeckers, inaccessible island rail, superb and beautiful sunbird, violet turaco and the African crowned eagle.Enter gently and quietly into this world of birds,

Who reads Featherings : True Stories in Search of Birds?

Author

Vernon R. L. Head; Vernon R.L. Head

Publisher

Jacana Media

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9781431425792

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Nature, History