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Collins Field Guide: Bird Songs and Calls of Britain and Northern Europe (Contains 2 accompanying CDs)

Collins Field Guide: Bird Songs and Calls of Britain and Northern Europe (Contains 2 accompanying CDs)
By Geoff Sample

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  • Amazon Sales Rank: #35235 in Books
  • Published on: 1996-04-18
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • 128 pages

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Synopsis
This field guide helps to identify bird sounds. The guide is organised by habitat, with atmospheric backgrounds and voice-overs discussing how to tell the difference between each species, so the reader can quickly learn all the calls he can hear when visiting his local wood, or marshland RSPB reserve. Over 158 species are covered, the focus being on common birds and birds that are difficult to separate visually, but easy when the calls are heard. The accompanying booklet gives background information on each species, plus an introductory section on bird song, where and when it can be heard, and how to make your own recordings.

Customer Reviews

So relaxing...5
Lovely book and CD's, so relaxing, just put it on and suddenly your walking with the author listening to the birds! When you go birding and you hear something or need to confirm an identification, the book coupled with easy access to the relevent cd sections works well. The recordings are really good quality as well, which you would expect from a professional sound man. Recommended.

disappointed1
I thought this was disappointing. For me there is not enough detail on the chosen birds and no real advice. I thought the layout was chaotic and really lacked in being a useful tool to learn bird calls and songs. To me it was like leaving a microphone out and reeling off whatever calls came along. My advice is that this package is not a useful learning aid and not entertaining or well put together.

Play C.D. on PC4
A benefit to playing the C.D. on a PC is that,on screen you get an indexed list of each bird that's playing although, surprisingly, not on disc 2.This can be overcome by going online, selecting the "View" tab at the top of the "Windows Media" screen, then select - Go To - followed by - Media Library.You then can download an index and where there are blank spaces go to - Edit and type in the missing species by referring to page 29 of the accompanying book.