David Bristow

INTRODUCTION pouth africa is a land of majestic landscapes, of endless golden beaches ?)and wide open spaces. It is often described as a land of contrasts, for surely few other countries or even continents can offer so varied an experience as the visitor here is able to have. The contrast...

Southern Africa is host to an astounding variety of birdlife: from the fluttering sunbirdsand cisticolas of the south-western Cape to the soaring lammergeiers of the Drakensberg. Some 880 species are found on the subcontinent - one-tenth of all those known to man; 800 of these occur in South Africa...