Robertsʼ Birds of KwaZulu-Natal and Their Zulu Names
Author: Adrian Koopman
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Published: 2020
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9780620175838
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Author: Adrian Koopman
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Published: 2020
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9780620175838
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Published: 2021-03-02
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13: 9781920602062
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Adrian Koopman
Publisher: University of Kwazulu Natal Press
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781869144258
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this book, Adrian Koopman describes the complex relationship between birds, the Zulu language, and Zulu culture. The book goes further than just Zulu names, exploring the underlying meanings of bird names from other South African languages and languages from Central and East Africa. A focus on Zulu traditional oral literature details the roles birds have played in Zulu praise poetry (including the praise poems of certain birds themselves) and in proverbs, riddles, and children's games. Also considered is traditional bird lore, examining the role played by various species as omens and portents, as indicators of bad luck and evil, as forecasters of rain and storm, and as harbingers of the seasons. Zulu Bird Names and Bird Lore discusses the Zulu Bird Name Project, a series of Zulu bird name workshops held between 2013 and 2017 with Zulu-speaking bird guides designed to confirm (or otherwise) all previously recorded Zulu names for birds, while at the same time devising new names for those without previously recorded names. The result has been a list of species-specific names for all birds in the Zulu-speaking region. Finally, the book turns to the role such new bird names can play in conservation education and in avi-tourism.
Author: Adrian Koopman
Publisher: University of Kwazulu Natal Press
Published: 2020
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781869144500
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAmagama Izinyoni: Zulu Names of Birds lists all the bird species found in KwaZulu-Natal and surrounds, gives the proposed standardised Zulu name for each species, and explains the underlying meaning and how the name came into being. All earlier names for these birds, even if no longer in current use, have been recorded here, making this a historical repository of Zulu bird names as well. This book is the result of the six-year Zulu Bird Name Project. Between 2013 and 2018, annual workshops, organised and facilitated by the three authors, brought together a total of eighteen mother-tongue Zulu-speaking bird experts to research the names of bird species present in the Zulu-speaking area of South Africa. At the start of the project, only approximately 40 per cent of the bird species of this area had species-specific Zulu names; by the end of the project all 550 species had unique names. The comprehensive introduction explains the methodology used in the Zulu bird name workshops, providing a template for linguists and ornithologists who might wish to do similar bird-naming exercises in the other African languages of southern Africa. The introduction also provides some linguistic and onomastic insights into bird naming generally and Zulu bird names in particular.
Author: Austin Roberts
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Published: 1978
Total Pages: 776
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Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2024-02-29
Total Pages: 641
ISBN-13: 1472984013
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis spectacular field guide includes all resident, breeding and migrant species found in Greater Southern Africa. Comprising South Africa, Lesotho, eSwatini, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Malawi, Mozambique and Zambia, Greater Southern Africa is a vast region home to a truly extraordinary diversity of avifauna. The latest in the Helm Field Guide series, Birds of Greater Southern Africa describes all 1,170 regularly occurring species that are likely to be encountered in the region, from the Wandering Albatross to the Pennant-winged Nightjar. Featuring 272 colour plates by three of the world's leading bird illustrators, this practical guide also includes concise species accounts describing key identification features, status, range, habitat and voice; distribution maps for each species are also included. Fully illustrated throughout, this is an essential reference guide for anyone visiting or living in this wildlife-rich area.
Author: Adrian Koopman
Publisher: University of Kwazulu Natal Press
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 350
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKKoopman (Zulu, U. of Natal, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa) provides a rich resource for the socio-linguistic dimensions of Zulu names. The text will be of interest not just to specialists in onomastics (the study of names), but to any studying Zulu culture. Following a discussion of the traditions behind personal and place names and their linguistics is a catalog of names that include personal, animal, plant, birds, schools, homesteads, and the months and days. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author: Hugh Chittenden
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Published: 2016
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781920602017
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Roberts Bird Guide (2nd Edition) has gone to great trouble to concentrate on, and illustrate, difficult-to-identify species and family groups such as raptors, warblers, cisticolas and waders. Special attention has been given to make sure there is far greater coverage of male-female differences and there are also many more juvenile illustrations. Unlike all previously published southern African bird guides, this new edition will be scattered with informative photographs that are incorporated in the text pages and each plate illustration is augmented with an introduction. Apart from the approximately 240 plate spreads, the guide also has 12 photographic and illustrated double spreads that show head enlargements and other details. Plates are annotated far more definitively than other guides - highlighting key identification features, especially for difficult-to-identify species. Plates are richly illustrated with vignettes, which will make any birding experience more informative.
Author: Lars Svensson
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Published: 2000
Total Pages: 399
ISBN-13: 9780007100828
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith expanded text and even larger colour illustrations, this guide covers every species and every plumage you will see, with detailed information on identification, habitat and voice.
Author: Charles Clinning
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Published: 1989
Total Pages: 180
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