North American Birds for Windows

by Simon & Schuster

Product Features

• For the bird lover, there is no better software than North American Birds
• It was written by Roger Tory Peterson, the writer of the very first field guide to bird-watching
• With the over 1400 illustrations and photos he makes available to you, you can explore almost every species of bird on the continent
• Listen to over 700 bird songs and calls
• The video tutorial with Mr. Peterson teaches you how to identify different types of birds

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 0.8 ounces
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000059P7N
• Date first available at Amazon.com: October 26, 2002
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #9,393 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #62 in Software > Education & Reference > Science
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

See, hear, and identify the birds of North America

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

23 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Needs Updating for XP, February 19, 2004

By 

Bill Mathews "SantaFeBill" (Santa Fe, NM USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: North American Birds for Windows (CD-ROM)

Great program if you're still on Win95 or 98 (don't know about ME), but _don't_ try to install under XP. The install program wants to replace system DLLs (mostly related to ODBC) with much older versions. You don't want to do this.

If you do want to play with this and see what XP's Windows File Protection does, be sure to set a System Restore Point before you try the install. (If most of the above is Greek to you, then just _don't_.)

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent, but..., April 23, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: North American Birds for Windows (CD-ROM)

I have had this program for several years and have relied on it a lot for bird identification, unfortuanately, it does not work with Windows 2000 or Windows XP, so it is now useless to me.
When it did work, it was easy to use, and an excellent reference.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars North American Birds, October 11, 2003

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Michael W. Weber "Candleman" (Vernal, UT) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: North American Birds for Windows (CD-ROM)

This was probably fantastic in it's day. It was written for Windows 95/98 and is entirely incompatible with Windows XP.