Must have guides for any nature lover’s bookshelf.
Award-winning news and prolific wildlife photographer Jean du Plessis, and lawyer, mediator and author Rupert Watson, have teamed up to put together two stunning guides, featuring the diverse bird and wildlife thriving within Tanzania’s Serengeti National Park and Ngorongoro Conservation Area.
Birds of Serengeti & Ngorongoro Conservation Area
This easy-to-read, richly illustrated guide is the perfect safari companion and a valuable memento. Featuring excellent full-colour photographs, it’s visually stunning, with text that describes more than 300 commonly seen bird species in concise, engaging prose, highlighting their main characteristics and includes tips on where and when the birds are best observed.
For ease of use, the book is categorised into six sections: ground-dwelling, bush and woodland, nocturnal, water birds, birds of prey and birds of the air.
Wildlife of Serengeti & Ngorongoro Conservation Area
With stunning full-colour photographs that capture the essence of this popular game-viewing and birdwatching destination, with its action-packed river crossings, beautiful landscapes and creatures great and small, this vibrant, informative and useful guide showcases more than 60 mammal species – from the wildebeest that migrate in vast herds across the Serengeti plains to the big cats that lie in wait, as well as smaller species such as caracals, genets and bats. It also features 50 of the more common and charismatic bird species, 30 reptile and amphibian species, some iconic trees and a range of interesting insects.
Details: Both books retail for around R250.Struik Nature; Penguin Random House.
