Birds of Lesotho

Lesotho is a landlocked country completely surrounded by South Africa. The landscape is mountainous to alpine, and the climate is therefore cooler than in other areas of the same latitude. Here occurs a mountain-dwelling birdlife, however no endemic species, but only two endemic subspecies, a Yellow Canary and a Layard's Tit-babbler. The country also shares two EBAs (Endemic Bird Areas) with South Africa, according to BirdLife International, the 'Lesotho highlands' and the 'Southern African grasslands' both with a number of restricted range species. Lesotho has two relatively small national parks, the Sehlabathebe National Park and the Ts'ehlanyane National Park. There are six IBAs (Important Bird Areas) spread across the country. One of these is of particular interest: the Mafika-Lisiu pass with Katse dam, as this area is well developed by a tarred road. Anyway, Lesotho is an underrated destination for birdwatchers.

This E-book bird guide for "Lesotho" has been built at 23.02.2025, based upon our data base and our image archive using our default settings, and saved in two formats. Thereby it is made sure that the e-book can be displayed on virtually all devices and if applicable be printed out with a compact page size.
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Cover image Drakensberg Rockjumper, Drawing: J.G.Keulemans

Primary language English, secondary languages German, French, Spanish, Japanese, and Chinese.
All 386 species are illustrated. In addition, links to HD videos of 147 bird species (1h 22m 13s) and audios of 47 bird species (20m 3s) are included. The assessment of the global conservation status of bird species uses the criteria of the Red List (IUCN) 2012.
The scientific system follows Clements et al. 2017.
An index, name registers in all selected languages and a scientific name register, all completely linked.
PDF E-book in page-based format A5: 154 pages, 23.53 MiB.
ePub E-book in flowable format for all devices with ePub reader: 19.71 MiB.

A paperback version of this bird guide is available from Amazon (ISBN: 9798798105199).
Also you can obtain a Kindle edition from Amazon (ASIN: B07ZS8JV4D).
© Wolfgang J. Daunicht 2025