Struik Nature to release new edition of Sasol Birds of Southern Africa

The title will be released in October 2011 and Random House Struik will be hosting launches in Johannesburg and Cape Town. Prizes will be up for grabs, so keep your browser focused on www.sasolbirds.co.za (from 1 September) and www.randomstruik.co.za for more information.

This fourth edition is written by a team of highly-respected authorities, namely: Ian Sinclair, Phil Hockey, Warwick Tarboton, and Peter Ryan, and illustrated by the award-winning Norman Arlott. It will be a guide to all birders - from aspirant to experienced.

Improvements and mobile application

This new edition has been greatly improved by:

• Comprehensively revised and reworked text
  
• Streamlined, newly designed plates for ease of use and comparison
  
• More than 380 new and improved illustrations
  
• Updated distribution maps showing relative abundance and resident or migrant status
  
• Calendar bars showing occurrence and breeding months
  
• Sonograms depicting the calls of some of the trickier-to-identify species.

Along with the new edition of the physical book, comes the updated mobile application, Sasol ebirds of Southern Africa.

If you pre-order your copy today, you'll get more than 20% discount. Go to www.randomstruik.co.za.