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 enlarge | Authors: Richard K. Walton, Robert W. Lawson
Creator: Roger Tory Peterson
Brand: Peterson Books
Category: Book
List Price: $30.00
Buy New: $14.92
You Save: $15.08 (50%)
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Avg. Customer Rating:  29 reviews
Sales Rank: 29206
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Items: 3
Pages: 64
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.9
MPN: PB618225900
ISBN: 0618225900
Dewey Decimal Number: 598
UPC: 046442225908
EAN: 9780618225903
ASIN: 0618225900
Publication Date: April 4, 2002
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Good intro to birding May 20, 2008
I'm a new birder, and I have found this series really helpful. I even recognized a few birds by sound before seeing them, thanks to this series. I also gave a copy to a friend who is visually impaired, and she's enjoying it too.
Wildly Helpful for Beginning Birders May 19, 2008
This program is logically thought out and executed unlike another disk I bought (Bird Song Ear Training Guide by John Feith). Bird calls are classed by types, e.g. the most common woodpeckers are grouped together, and then explained. After the explanation, the bird call is repeated again so one can analyze the key elements of the calls. This was not done in the Feith CD.
I live next to a park that is a large tract of land that is untouched. When a tree goes down, it stays down and rots, as would happen in nature. This is not a manicured park. There are a wealth of bird calls within the park and although I can't see them, I can certainly hear them. I wanted to identify them by their calls and I will be able to with these disks. I bought another CD that I thought would help that is mentioned above, but was sorely disappointed.
If you are like me and want to be able to recognize birds by their calls, then this is the work for you.
Birding By Ear: Eastern and Central Noth America(Peterson Field Guides February 23, 2008
ASIN:0618225900 Birding by Ear: Eastern and Central North America (Peterson Field Guides(R)
I've always enjoyed watching and listening to our feathered friends however my identification was limited to visual. I'm a learner by repetition and this audio series makes that possible. I have a substantial commute to work and can listen as I ride. I'm not only being taught but it is very relaxing! This audio series is an excellent way to learn and remember bird songs. Looking forward to spring and putting what I've learned to use out in the field!
Birding by Ear September 27, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Great item. Good for listening to in your car. My wife loves it and we have used it to learn our birds in Alabama.
 Not the only one you want to have June 27, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is a good set of disks that groups bird songs by some feature of similarity. I never knew, for instance, that robins and scarlet tanagers sound so similar. The disks are quite good for helping you learn the differences between similar-sounding species. Keep after it and you will learn to distinguish Carolina from black-capped chickadees.
That said, I would not want this for my only set of bird songs, because if you want to listen to a specific bird, it's too hard to find without the booklet in your hands. Since I listen to these disks on my PC on the patio or my PDA & my MP3 player when I'm out walking or in the car, that is not convenient for me. I bought it in combination with the "Stokes Field Guide to Bird Songs: Eastern Region" and am much more pleased with the combination than I would have been with this set alone.
Mind you, having the disks does not guarantee species identification. At this moment I'm sitting at the PC with the window to my suburban back yard open, listening to a low "chuck-chuck-chuck-chuck-chuck" that I canNOT find on either set of disks!
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