%0 Journal Article
%T Waders of southern Africa/Phil Hockey (Illustrated by Claire Douie)
%A Gordon Maclean
%J African Zoology
%D 2011
%I 
%X Phil Hockey is southern Africa's 'Mr Waders', so his recent magnum opus has been keenly awaited by ornithologists and birders, This beautifully produced book is the most authoritative and up-to-date compendium of readable information available on this marvellous group of birds. Hockey's easy style of writing and his enormous knowledge and enthusiasm combine to give the readership an unparalleled work of reference - a work geared to a public far beyond the academic or professional ornithologist. The opening sections of the book introduce the waders. The Introduction is subtitled Waders in penpective: it is a pithy outline of his approach to the subject, as well as to the systematic composition of the order Charadriiformes. A series of clear coloured maps follows, showing the main features of Africa, the conventions used in the distribution maps, the main place names mentioned in the text, and the present and erstwhile South African provincial boundaries and names (some already out of date, such is the pace of politics in this 'new' country!).
%U http://africanzoology.journals.ac.za/pub/article/view/24