For those who thought *Washington* was a difficult region for which to
generate a breeding bird atlas. Even not having seen this monumentous
undertaking, I can only imagine "wow!" Each of you planning a trip to
southern Africa will of course want one. And, speaking of that, has anyone
on this list been to Zimbabwe? If so, please mail me directly; I'm
planning a trip there and would love to hear from you.

>Date: Thu, 17 Oct 1996 16:21:31 +0200 (SAST)
>Reply-To: waders-l at uct.ac.za
>Originator: waders-l at uct.ac.za
>Sender: waders-l at uct.ac.za
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>From: "Les Underhill" <LGU at maths.uct.ac.za>
>To: dpaulson at mirrors.ups.edu
>Subject: [WADERS-L:176] The Atlas of Southern African Birds
>X-Comment: Waders discussion group
>
>The pre-publication offer on The Atlas of Southern African Birds has
>just started.
>
>The atlas covers Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland
>and Zimbabwe (the same area as Europe minus Russia, Scandinavia,
>Britain and Ireland). About 940 species are included. The atlas
>database contains over seven million records of bird distribution,
>making it probably the largest biodiversity project ever on the
>continent of Africa. The publication runs to 1600 A4 pages (most
>species get a two page treatment) in two volumes, and will weigh
>6.5kg! Publication is expected in March 1997.
>
>The publisher is BirdLife South Africa, the partner in South Africa
>for BirdLife International. BirdLife South Africa was formerly the
>Southern African Ornithological Society. Being an NGO with small
>resources, BirdLife South Africa will not be printing 1000s of extra
>copies for later sale, so the prepublication offer is all-important.
>If BirdLife South Africa makes a profit on this project, it will be
>ploughed back into bird conservation and research.
>
>About 70 species of waders (Charadrii) are covered --- from
>cosmopolitan species such as the Knot {Calidris canutus} to the
>endemic African Black Oystercatcher {Haematopus moquini}.
>
>If you would like me to receive a flier, send an email to
>
>adu at maths.uct.ac.za
>
>There is quite a bit of information on our web page
>
>http://www.uct.ac.za/depts/stats/adu/
>
>including a sample of the text and maps (if you click on them, you
>get larger versions --- unfortunately the shades of red don't get
>represented too faithfully!), and there is also an order form that
>can be emailed back to us.
>
>Les Underhill

Dennis Paulson, Director phone 206-756-3798
Slater Museum of Natural History fax 206-756-3352
University of Puget Sound e-mail dpaulson at ups.edu
Tacoma, WA 98416