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Bird Song Ear Training Guide: Who Cooks for Poor Sam Peabody? Learn to Recognize the Songs of Birds from the Midwest and Northeast States | 
 enlarge | Author: John Feith
Publisher: Caculo
Category: Book
List Price: $14.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  19 reviews
Sales Rank: 40471
Media: Audio CD
Pages: 3
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.4
ISBN: 0975443402
Dewey Decimal Number: 598
EAN: 9780975443408
ASIN: 0975443402
Publication Date: November 2002
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Book Description
This Audio CD is designed for anyone who wants to learn how to recognize bird songs. It features the sounds of 189 different bird species found in the Midwest and Northeast States. Each bird song recording is followed by a short description of the sound along with a common mnemonic used to remember it. Many well-known song mnemonics such as "Who cooks for you?" for the Barred Owl and "Poor Sam Peabody" for the White-throated Sparrow are included. Following the song and mnemonic, the source of the sound is revealed. By naming the bird at the end of each track, the listener is allowed to wonder and guess at the nature of the sound. Active listening, similar to what one experiences in the field while searching for an unknown bird song, is a key to engaging the memory process. One way to use this CD is to enable the "Random Play" or "Shuffle" option on a home CD player, portable stereo, or personal computer. Although it may be frustrating at first, repetition of this "quiz" game will quickly improve recognition skills. Gaining familiarity with these songs will greatly increase any bird watcher's enjoyment and awareness of birds in their natural habitat. Features: - 189 bird species found in the Midwest and Northeast states
- Digital bird song recordings made in Wisconsin
- Brief narration after each song includes descriptive, memorable and often funny mnemonics
- Can be used as a field guide to learn and identify songs or as a recognition quiz game
- Easy to use alphabetical track listing of all birds and their mnemonics
- It is a great gift for any birdwatcher, beginner or advanced.
- Total running time: 60 minutes
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 The CD is very useful April 28, 2008
I love your CD. I have been using it to great effect on the commuter train from Ipswich to Boston every day for the last few weeks. I live about an hour north of Boston and read the newspaper until about Salem or Swampscott. Then it's birds the rest of the trip. I am a graduate of "Birding by Ear" and "More Birding by Ear" so I love the fact that on your CD the songs come first, followed by the identifications. I generally have my CD player set on random shuffle.
I understand that the songs can be heard faintly by the other commuters, though they can't tell where the sound is coming from. I see people looking around from time to time wondering who let the birds on the train. It's quite funny.
 Really great guide, especially for beginners April 7, 2008
I'm an ornithologist, and yet I have a hard time learning bird songs. I got this CD as a way to learn them, and found it very useful. It doesn't have all the birds of the Eastern US, but that's helpful because it keeps you from being overwhelmed. Birds are grouped partly by habitat which is also helpful. On some of the tracks, it is hard to tell which is the target bird, and only the main song of the bird is featured. However, the bird isn't identified until after the song is played, allowing you time to figure it out for yourself. The pneumonics for making the abstract noises easy to remember help a lot. I'd recommend this guide to anyone starting to learn bird songs.
Very good CD August 21, 2007
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
After many years of bird watching I decided it was high time I learned to bird by ear.
I'm pretty familiar with the limited species that show up in my Southern California yard (House Finches, House Sparrows, Mourning Doves and Western Scrub Jays mostly).
I've purchased a few different CD's on birding by ear (including the Stokes CD's), but this is the one I like the best. I keep it in my CD player in the car so I can learn/study the bird songs while going to and from work each day.
I have noticed a slight regional accent in some of the birds that I'm familiar with, but it's not so significant that I don't recognise the House Sparrow or the House Finch when I hear it.
I highly recommend this CD to anyone who is trying to learn to bird by ear.
Great for newbies June 7, 2007
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I've lived on a farm or outside the city for most of my life, but never really bothered to figure out the different bird calls. After listening to this CD a couple of times, my wife and I can now pick out some of the different birds. The more calls we learn, the more fun it is to learn more.
 Overly Short Songs Presented at Shotgun Speed May 25, 2007
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
While the coverage of songs is thorough, the acoustic quality is not nearly as good as four other bird song CDs that I also recently purchased (Stokes - Eastern Region, Peterson Field Guide sets - Eastern, Songbirds Bible by Proctor, Common Bird Songs by Borror). Moreover, the songs are very short, with minimal repetition or variation. It is nice to have narration that follows the songs, so the listener has a chance to guess what type of bird sings each song. However, given that the songs are so short, and the pauses after the songs and before narration are even shorter, there is no time for an advanced beginner birder such as myself to reflect, or even spit out the answer instantaneously. Furthermore, the next song often starts virtually "on top" of the narration (which is little more than just the name of the bird), making it easy to associate the bird name with the wrong song (ie, the song that follows narration rather than the song that precedes).
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