In "Collins Field Guide to Bird Songs and Calls", Geoff Sample introduced a way of helping to identify bird songs. In this companion volume he covers a further 130 species and helps the reader to identify some of the trickier and rarer species. Each group is grouped together on the basis of what they sound like. Starting with a common, familiar species, the listener is introduced to the variation between each similar-sounding species. Geoff Sample also explains the major differences between the species, so that the listener can identify the species with ease. The accompanying book highlights these differences and also gives background information on when and where you are likely to hear each species singing, further helping to identify the bird. This CD and book is aimed at everybody who has difficulty in identifying bird song in the wild, whether common or rare birds.
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Who's squeaking? (CD + explanatory book of UK bird calls),
By R Allan Reese (United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Bird Call Identification (Collins Field Guide) (Hardcover)
The first point for Amazon.com customers is to note that this CD and book was produced with the British market in mind. Most of the species featured will be found in Britain, with a few that occur elsewhere in Europe included for comparison - or in the hope you can spot that rarity. (Incidentally, the CD does not include Black-headed Bunting used on the book cover.) For serious UK birders, this is a useful product that draws attention to features of calls that will improve your field skills. Less serious birders might think this is anorak territory. Many of the sound clips are short, deliberately so in order to aid comparisons. This is not a disk to compare with bird song recordings that folk will listen to just for pleasure, but for many birders the calls featured will be evocative of personal experiences in the field. Many CD systematic bird guides now include recordings of calls, or they occur incidentally in video clips. This CD will help you make use of such resources and is excellent value. I give four stars for being different in a market saturated with potboiler field guides.
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