Book Review - Roberts Bird Guide (Second Edition)

We haven't been to Africa yet, and South Africa is one of my target places to boost my lifer list in coming years. I bought this book - Roberts Bird Guide (Second Edition) from NHBS more than a month ago, and after some problems in shipping, it was finally shipped to Hong Kong last week.

Quickly read through the book, this book is really useful for birders who want to visit southern part of Africa. The drawings are fantastic, words are easy to be understood, making this book to be a first choice for birder who wanna know more about south African birds. As it is covering nearly 1000 species, distributed in several countries, this book is quite thick and heavy when comparing to other field guide. However, as it is very informative and useful, this excellent field guide is still highly recommended no matter you will go to South Africa or not.

For more information, you can check here: http://www.robertsbirds.co.za/sa-guide.htm

this is the second edition, with a cover of a Secretarybird

photos are included in some difficult species, exactly what I want to do if publishing a field guide

key features are highlighted in difficult species too

drawings are excellent, like the wader page