A Naturalist's Guide to the Birds of Fraser's Hill & the Highlands of Peninsular Malaysia

Publisher: John Beaufoy Publishing

A photographic identification guide to the 280 bird species most commonly seen at Fraser’s Hill as well as the Cameron and Genting Highlands in Peninsular Malaysia.

High quality photographs from the region’s top nature photographers are accompanied by detailed species descriptions, which include nomenclature, length, plumage, distribution, habits and habitat. The user-friendly introduction covers geography and climate, the forests, birdwatching trails at Fraser’s Hill as well as the other wildlife to be found there. Also included is an all-important checklist of all of the birds of Fraser’s Hill encompassing, for each species, its common and scientific names as well as its regional status.

About Geoffrey Davison

Dr Geoffrey Davison has spent all his working life in South-East Asia, as a university lecturer in Malaysia, a conservationist with WWF, and now with the National Parks Board, Singapore. His interests range across ornithology, tropical forest ecology and animal taxonomy. He has written numerous scientific papers as well as books, including the bestselling Naturalist's Guide to the Birds of Malaysia.

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Paperback 9781912081547 1912081547 2019-08-22 176 0.00 x 5.00 x 7.00 in $17.95

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