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Austin Roberts (3 January 1883 – 5 May 1948) was a South African zoologist. He is best known for his Birds of South Africa , first published in 1940. He also studied the mammalian fauna of the region: his work The mammals of South Africa was published posthumously in 1951.
He was director of the Percy FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology at the University of Cape Town, co-editor of Roberts' Birds of Southern Africa and co-author of Sasol Birds of Southern Africa. Hockey was born in Bournemouth, England in 1956 and moved to South Africa in 1979. His doctoral study was on the African oystercatcher.
A foreword was written by John Voelcker, then president of the South African Ornithological Society, and the album was edited by Austin Roberts. The illustrations were attributed to Norman Lighton although they were clearly copies of the Claude Gibney Finch-Davies plates held by the Transvaal Museum - Finch-Davies was neither credited nor ...
Birds of Southern Africa, by Ian Sinclair, Phil Hockey, and Warwick Tarboton, Princeton University Press, 2002; The Birds of East Africa, by Terry Stevenson and John Fanshawe, Academic Press, 2001; Field Guide to the Birds of Kenya and Northern Tanzania, by Dale A. Zimmerman, Donald A. Turner, and David J. Pearson, Princeton University Press ...
The Austin Roberts (Memorial) Bird Sanctuary is a 11.76 ha (29.1 acres) nature reserve located in the Walkerspruit Open Space System, in the Nieuw Muckleneuk suburb of Pretoria, South Africa. It became the first bird refuge in Pretoria when it was opened by the then mayor of Pretoria, Mr. W. J. Seymore, on 27 October 1956. [1] [2] It was ...
This is a list of the bird species recorded in Southern Africa.Southern Africa is defined as Africa south of a line between the Kunene and Zambezi rivers, encompassing Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, mainland South Africa, Lesotho, Eswatini and southern and central Mozambique, as well as oceanic waters within 200 nautical miles (370 km) of the coast, covering approximately 3.5 million square ...
The following is a list of bird species endemic or near-endemic to southern Africa (South Africa, Lesotho, Eswatini, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, and southern Mozambique). [1] Grey-winged francolin, Scleroptila africanus; Orange River francolin, Scleroptila levaillantoides; Red-billed spurfowl (red-billed francolin), Pternistes adspersus
The blue crane is the national bird of South Africa. South Africa is a large country, ranked 25th by size in the world, and is situated in the temperate latitudes and subtropics. Due to a range of climate types present, a patchwork of unique habitat types occur, which contribute to its biodiversity and level of endemism. This list incorporates ...