Beautiful monograph on the twelve owl species that inhabit the southern African subregion has been written by a leading specialist on birds of prey and illustrated by one of South Africa's best-known bird artists. The result is an authoritative and visually exciting book that will undoubtedly become a standard work on this group of birds.

Ornithologists and collectors of fine illustrated books will welcome the opportunity to acquire this comprehensive and beuatiful mongraph on a little-known but fascinating groups of birds. In terms of both scholarship and artistic achievement it is a work that will not be easily surpassed.

Pub. 1987

Text by Alan Kemp

Paintings by Simon Calburn

Standard Edition

184 pages.