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 enlarge | Author: John Feith
Publisher: Caculo
Category: Book
List Price: $14.95
Buy New: $9.95
You Save: $5.00 (33%)
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Avg. Customer Rating:  20 reviews
Sales Rank: 68508
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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Condition: new; audio book on cd
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 Overly Short Songs Presented at Shotgun Speed May 25, 2007
12 out of 13 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).
 excellent for beginning and intermediate birders August 1, 2006
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
The alphabetical indexing is excellent for those who have not mastered the taxanomic order as found in most lists and books. The presentation of the song before the identification is useful in honing ones ears. Would like it to be longer than the ~110 species presented.
By far the best bird song training & review guide July 10, 2006
11 out of 11 found this review helpful
This is an outstanding CD for learning bird songs. Each song starts with the bird song and then the narrator describes the song and provides a short phrase or description that aids you with identifying it, followed again with the essence of the song. This format allows you to quiz yourself. I bought my first copy two years ago and have bought 5 more to give to friends since then. Everyone has commented that its a great guide. I own several other guides including Birding by Ear and More Birding by Ear and this is by far my favorite.
Highly recommended & exactly what I was looking for. July 9, 2006
13 out of 13 found this review helpful
The CD arrived in the mail yesterday, and I've listened to it once all the way through. The bird songs were recorded in Wisconsin and I live in Connecticut, and I recognized most of the songs as ones I had heard near my house, so it seems that birds selected for inclusion on the CD are widespread enough to make the CD useful for most of the eastern US.
The format is excellent. The bird songs are arranged in alphabetical order by bird name. Each entry begins with about 20 seconds of bird song (usually 2 repetitions) followed by a speaker describing the song in words that are easy to remember and giving the bird's name, and ending with another 5 seconds of bird song. It is easy to tell when one entry has ended and another has begun. I expect to do most of my listening in the car, so this format is perfect for me.
Buy this for your children! June 26, 2006
12 out of 12 found this review helpful
My 7, 4, and 1 year old love this cd. Their friends love it. We listen to it often in the car. They have memorized and can repeat (as much as a human can) many of the calls, and they try to have "conversations" with the birds in our backyard. Let's face it, kids growing up in suburbia face challenges to acquiring the kind of nature literacy that the average child, say, 10,000 years ago, experienced as part of daily life. While some would debate it, I believe that their little brains delight in flickering firelight, picking out the movement of an animal in the brush, and yes, birdsong. I would absolutely recommend this as a gift for a child or even an infant. It's much safer than a blazing fire or a large shrub with a wolf lurking in it. My only complaint is that there is not a companion book with pictures; our solution has been to rip up an inexpensive copy of Birds of Massachusetts and re-shuffle the pictures to go with the order on the cd.
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