Revealing fascinating insights into the mysterious lives of birds native to the mother continent, this remarkable guide exhibits the many vibrantly colorful species found in the South African bush.

Author: Trevor Carnaby

Publisher: Jacana Media

ISBN: 9781770092419

Category: Birds

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Revealing fascinating insights into the mysterious lives of birds native to the mother continent, this remarkable guide exhibits the many vibrantly colorful species found in the South African bush. Providing an in-depth discourse on all aspects of bird life--detailing their myriad forms, survival strategies in a harsh landscape, breeding and feeding behaviors, movements, migrations, preferred habitat, unique behavioral patterns, and vocalizations--this comprehensive manual also expertly advises on how to easily and accurately identify each individual species. Populated with more than 900 brilliantly vivid photographs and exhaustively researched to fill the gap in existing literature and field guides, this essential reference will delight nature lovers, tourists, birdwatchers, and bush lovers alike.

More comprehensive than a field guide yet more accessible than an academic text, this completely revised and fully updated favorite reference answers fundamental questions about mammals and birds in the African bush such as How does an ...

Author: Trevor Carnaby

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ISBN: 1431408530

Category: Animal tracks

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More comprehensive than a field guide yet more accessible than an academic text, this completely revised and fully updated favorite reference answers fundamental questions about mammals and birds in the African bush such as How does an elephant's trunk work? Is the cheetah really the fastest animal? and Why do some bird species sit on animals? Ideal for anyone who has ever wanted to know why animals walk in line, how they see at night, or why they have the coloring they do, Beat about the Bush is the most comprehensive bush and field companion available. Photographs, charts, and tables accompany the question-and-answer format, making this all-in-one guide user-friendly for both wildlife enthusiasts and professionals.

Filling the gap between basic mammal guides and extensive academic texts, this resource answers everyday questions about mammals in an understandable fashion that will appeal to tourists, bush enthusiasts, and field guides.

Author: Trevor Carnaby

Publisher: Jacana Media

ISBN: 9781770092402

Category: Animal tracks

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Filling the gap between basic mammal guides and extensive academic texts, this resource answers everyday questions about mammals in an understandable fashion that will appeal to tourists, bush enthusiasts, and field guides. Addressing everything from how an elephant's trunk works to why the blue whale is not a fish, this question-and-answer guide includes more than 700 color photographs and a detailed section on tracks and signs, making it a must-have for anyone wanting to know about the mammals of the bush region.

1606 : Ret . from Parnassus , II v , It hath been my luck always to beat the bush , while another killed the hare . 1732 : Fuller , 3738 , One beateth the bush , and another catcheth the bird . 1828 : Scott , letter to Mrs Hughes ...

Author: George Latimer Apperson

Publisher: Wordsworth Editions

ISBN: 1840223111

Category: Proverbs, English

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This dictionary aims to help users to find the most appropriate word to use on a wide range of occasions. It is designed in particular for students, those writing reports, letters and speeches, and crossword solvers, but is also useful as a general word reference. Special features include: an alphabetical A-Z listing; numbered senses for words with more than one meaning; British and American variants; and specially marked colloquial uses.

... 244 widowbirds , long - tailed 244 widowfinches see indigobirds wild cat , african ( see also felids ) interbreeding with feral cats 44 tree'd by jackals 28 Beat about the Bush Animals and Birds by Trevor Carnaby.

Author: Trevor Carnaby

Publisher: Jacana Media

ISBN: STANFORD:36105122195196

Category: Science

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More comprehensive than a field guide yet more accessible than an academic text, this authoritative reference answers fundamental questions about mammals and birds in the African bush such asHow does an elephant's trunk work? Is the cheetah really the fastest animal?andWhy do some bird species sit on animals?Photographs, charts, and tables accompany the question-and-answer format, making this all-in-one guide user-friendly for both wildlife enthusiasts and professionals.

bird conservation localities. Carnaby, T. 2008. Beat About the Bush: Birds. Jacana Media. A comprehensive reference guide that provides answers to everyday questions on a myriad southern African bird-related topics.

Author: Ian Sinclair

Publisher: Penguin Random House South Africa

ISBN: 9781775846697

Category: Nature

Page: 489

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Now in its fifth edition, Sasol Birds of Southern Africa has been brought fully up to date by its expert author panel, with additional contributions from two new birding experts. Greatly enhanced, this comprehensive, best-selling guide is sure to maintain its place as one of Africa’s most trusted field guides. Sales points: More than 800 new illustrations. Scan and play bird calls using free downloadable app. Fully revised text (with latest species records), maps and plate annotations. Fresh input from new contributing authors. Comprehensive coverage of the region’s birds.

... African Birds by Chittenden, H., Allan, D. & Weiersbye, I. Roberts Bird Guide Kruger National Park and Adjacent Lowveld by Chittenden, H. & Whyte, I. Nests & Eggs of Southern African Birds by Tarboton, W. Beat about the bush, ...

Author: Adam Riley

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

ISBN: 9781472990815

Category: Nature

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The definitive photographic guide to the amazing avifauna of South Africa. South Africa – from the vast savanna of Kruger to the unparalleled richness of the Cape – is one of the most biodiverse countries in the world, featuring the highest number of endemics of any African country, as well as rich seabird assemblage and vast numbers of more widespread yet no less spectacular African birds. The perfect companion for any wildlife-friendly visitor, Birds of South Africa provides photographic coverage of more than 340 species that regularly occur in the region. Concise text for each species includes information on identification, songs and calls, behaviour, distribution and habitat, with each photo having been carefully selected to guide identification. A guide to the best birdwatching sites in South Africa is also included. Portable yet authoritative, this is the perfect guide for travellers and birdwatchers visiting this spectacular and bird-rich destination.

The bushes would be disturbed by bats or clubs and the birdsnetted or stunned as they tried to escape. ... The fact that the person who beat thebush was not necessarily the one to catch the birds led to another metaphorical expression ...

Author: Leslie Dunkling

Publisher: HarperCollins UK

ISBN: 9780007598120

Category: Reference

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The ebook edition of the Collins Dictionary of Curious Phrases is an updated and revised version of Leslie Dunkling’s classic work on curious and baffling phrases.

665 900 English Proverbs at Your Fingertips One beats the bush , and another catches the birds .一人敲樹叢,他人來抓鳥。坐享其成。這是一句由 beat , bush , bird 頭韻字構成的諺語,讀起來順口像詩,看起來美麗如畫,畫中有人拿棍子敲樹叢驚鳥出, ...

Author: 陳世琪

Publisher: 正中書局．流傳文化．墨文堂文化

ISBN: 9570914106

Category: English language

Page: 330

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Bush Hare . 1784 EWinslow in Winslow Papers 237 : In this as in former instances I have beat the Bush for others . 1807 Bowen Jour- nals 2.616 : He having beat the bush Saun- ders hath caught the bird . Oxford 37 ; Whit- ing B604 .

Author: Bartlett Jere Whiting

Publisher: Harvard University Press

ISBN: 0674219813

Category: Literary Criticism

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p.B. J. Whiting savors proverbial expressions and has devoted much of his lifetime to studying and collecting them; no one knows more about British and American proverbs than he. The present volume, based upon writings in British North America from the earliest settlements to approximately 1820, complements his and Archer Taylor's Dictionary of American Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases, 1820-1880. It differs from that work and from other standard collections, however, in that its sources are primarily not "literary" but instead workaday writings - letters, diaries, histories, travel books, political pamphlets, and the like. The authors represent a wide cross-section of the populace, from scholars and statesmen to farmers, shopkeepers, sailors, and hunters. Mr. Whiting has combed all the obvious sources and hundreds of out-of-the-way publications of local journals and historical societies. This body of material, "because it covers territory that has not been extracted and compiled in a scholarly way before, can justly be said to be the most valuable of all those that Whiting has brought together," according to Albert B. Friedman. "What makes the work important is Whiting's authority: a proverb or proverbial phrase is what BJW thinks is a proverb or proverbial phrase. There is no objective operative definition of any value, no divining rod; his tact, 'feel, ' experience, determine what's the real thing and what is spurious."