Product Description

In a brand-new recording Geoff Sample, author of the best-selling Field Guide Bird Songs and Calls, provides an audio guide to the bird song you hear in parks and gardens. The CD includes over 60 minutes of digitally recorded sound and covers 40 of the most common and vocal garden birds. Each recording is introduced by the author with a voice-over that gives a brief interpretation of the song or call. The booklet included contains details of each recording and also gives useful advice on how to listen to and interpret the sounds you hear. If you would like to be able to identify the birds in your garden by sound rather than by sight then this is the guide for you.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #164717 in Books
• Published on: 2000-04-03
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 32 pages

About the Author
Geoff Sample was born in rural Northumberland and has been interested in nature since his childhood. He worked in the London music industry for 15 years, but during this time he never lost his fascination with birds and wildlife. Nine years ago he began studying and recording birdsong. He is the author of Collins Field Guide Bird Songs and Calls, Bird Call Identification and Garden Bird Songs and Calls.

Customer Reviews

A good resource, plain and simple
This is a very straightforward and useful book and cd that provides an introduction to the person wishing to know what the bird calls they can hear are in their garden. The audio CD allows you to listen and learn the most common garden birds which you can then listen out for. Great!

Brilliant
If you're a beginner to bird songs and calls, this is the CD for you. Geoff Sample's soft voice introduces each bird in turn so that each song or call can easily be compared with any other on the CD. It is superb and I can't recommend it highly enough.

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Not much singing on this CD. The birds don`t put any effort into learning the words, they tend to just whistle, tweet and sqwark somewhat like the X-Factor contestants. This is a shame really as you would think if someone went to the touble of giving them a recording contract they would at least know the words.
I blame the nightingales -they just show off. The best song on there is the crows who sound just like amy winehouse.
It should be called "Garden Bird Noise" as songs was a bit misleading for me.