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Birding By Ear CDs
Audio Field Guide CDs
Books with Audio CDs
North American Bird CD-ROMs

Birding By Ear CDs These CDs stand out from most other products with their educational approach. In this series of CDs from the Peterson Field Guides® Series, Richard K. Walton and Robert W. Lawson introduce the listener to mental tools for describing, remembering, and identifying bird songs and calls. Birds are presented in groups based on similarity of song. Bird vocalizations are compared and contrasted and tips are given for distinguishing between similarly sounding species. Booklets contain phonetic indices which are useful for identifying sounds.
Buy CDs Now!	Peterson Field Guides®: Birding By Ear: Eastern/Central 3 CDs, 85 Species, 63 page booklet with b&w drawings Best starting point for the Eastern birder with some experience with bird song who is interested in becoming more proficient at recognizing bird song.
Buy CDs Now!	Peterson Field Guides®: Birding By Ear: Western 3 CDs, 91 Species, 63 page booklet with b&w illustrations Best starting point for the Western birder with some experience with bird song who is interested in becoming more proficient at recognizing bird song.
Buy CDs Now!	Peterson Field Guides®: More Birding By Ear: Eastern/Central 3 CDs, 96 Species, 64 page booklet with b&w illustrations
Buy CD Now!	Peterson Field Guides®: Backyard Bird Song 1 CD, 28 Species, 32 page booklet with color illustrations Good starting point for someone just beginning to learn bird song interested in identifying neighborhood birds.
Audio Field Guide CDs Audio Field Guides provide a comprehensive collection of bird song presented in the same order as their companion field guide. A narrator gives the species name and then songs and calls follow. Accompanying booklets vary on the amount of descriptive information they provide for each species.
Buy CDs Now!	Stokes Field Guide to Bird Songs: Eastern Region 3 CDs, 372 Species, 63 page booklet Length and quality of recordings make this set of CDs enjoyable just to listen to. Booklet contains good descriptions of each sound including mneumonics where appropriate, "purpose" of sound in some cases, and number of individuals when multiple vocalizations are included. Individual tracks for most species make finding and replaying species easy.
Buy CDs Now!	Stokes Field Guide to Bird Songs: Western Region 4 Audio CDs, 551 species, 60 page booklet Like the Eastern Region, the length and quality of recordings make this set of CDs enjoyable just to listen to. Booklet contains details of each sound including "purpose" of sound, month and location of recording, and race of recorded bird. Individual tracks for most species make finding and replaying species easy.
Buy CD Now!	Peterson Field Guides®: Eastern/Central Bird Songs 1 CD, 267 Species, 15 page booklet Booklet contains indication of songs, calls, and other sounds and the state or province where the recording was made. Tracked by groups. Track and time are given for each species.
Buy CDs Now!	Peterson Field Guides®: Western Bird Songs 2 CDs, 522 Species, 45 page booklet Booklet contains mneumonics for songs and the state or province where the recording was made. Tracked by groups. Track and time are given for each species.
Books with Audio CDs
Buy Book&CD Now!	Common Birds and Their Songs 128 page book with 60 full-color photos, range maps 1 Audio CD, 50 Species A unique introduction to 50 of the most familiar North America birds and the songs they sing. More of a full-featured field guide with descriptions of natural history, habitat, range, and field marks.
Buy Book&CD Now!	Music of the Birds: A Celebration of Bird Song 136 pages, Paperback, Over 125 Color Photos 1 Audio CD, Over 70 species Lang reflects on bird song while introducing North American songbirds. Quotes inspired by birdsong are included throughout from poets and writers such as Thoreau, Whitman, Emerson, Dickenson, Chaucer, and Shakespeare. The accompanying CD contains inspiring recordings following the song subjects in the text.
North American Bird CD-ROMs CD-ROMs provide much more than just bird songs and so the bird song component is only one factor in considering a selection. The ability to quickly access a species' songs and calls and have photos, illustrations, and text to make a stonger mental connection of the sound to the bird are strong advantages over audio CDs although the audio reproduction is not as accurate. In addition all the CD-ROMs have quiz and practice modes where you can practice identifying bird sounds. The descriptions below only address the bird sounds aspect of the CD-ROMs.
Buy CD-ROM Now!	Thayer Birding Software: Birds of North America 2.5 Sonograms, Single Song Mneumonic Most accurate reproduction of high pitched sounds made by species such as warblers and sparrows. Brief mneumonic/description of single song available separately through menu. On-the-fly sonogram of songs also available through menu.
	Peterson Multimedia Guides(tm): North American Birds 1.1 Good Text Descriptions of Sounds Good textual descriptions of sounds automatically displayed when song is played. Video segment with Roger Tory Peterson discussing song. Multimedia 'Birding By Ear' background information.
	National Audubon Society: Interactive CD-ROM Guide to North American Birds Works on the Macintosh.

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