Voices of Costa Rican Birds: Caribbean Slope (Audio CD)

~ Jr. David L. Ross (Author), Bret M. Whitney (Author)

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Product Description

This 2 CD production includes a 16 page booklet with English, Spanish and scientific names of the 220 species presented. This is an audio guide to birds found on the Caribbean Slope of Costa Rica, at middle elevations, in the foothills and in the lowlands. It Includes many commonly heard vocalists, as well as less frequently observed Caribbean Slope specialties. A "must-have" for the birder or naturalist who plans to visit any of the following sites: Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve's Penas Blancas Valley Parque Nacional Braulio Carrillo Parque Nacional Cahuita Parque Nacional Tortuguero OTS Finca La Selva (and Puerto Viejo vicinity) Rara Avis Reserva Biologica Hitoy-Cerere Reserva de Vida Silvestre Tapanti Virgen del Socorro ....As well as any Costa Rican rainforest Locality END

From the Author

The sounds presented here have been recorded over the course of decades in Costa Rica and Latin America. Featured are many never before published vocalizations, of which many are the only known examples. These CDs are intended to be a resource for birders, ornithologist, naturalists and conservationist-anyone striving to identify the myriad avian voices of Costa Rica. While more than 220 species are identified, many selections include songs as well as calls. Many recordings have been collected with parabolic reflecting microphones and Digital Audio Tape recorders. This to date is the largest compilation of Costa Rican bird sounds. The double CD format allowed for longer cut length for most species, as well as multiple examples of vocalizations. The annotated booklet provides information on the context of the sound, as well as the date and location of the recording (locations are coded numerically).

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Product Details

• Audio CD
• Publisher: Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology (March 15, 1995)
• ISBN-10: 0938027220
• ISBN-13: 978-0938027225
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #4,570,326 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very helpful, May 24, 2003

By	David Sarkozi (Houston, TX) - See all my reviews

For a location that gets a lot of birders there is very little in the way of recordings available for Costa Rica. Don't let the title fool you, a great number of the birds presented on this set are also on the Pacific Slope. The quality of the recordings is very good, and over two-hundred species are resented. I found it very helpful in learning the calls of the birds of Costa Rica

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Hearing and seeking, October 12, 2000

By	Wagner Lopez Vargas "pin2d2" (San José, Costa Rica) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Want to train yourself to recognize the 25% of the Costa Rican birds species by its voices? Then, you have to listen both CD's. I heard them few months ago when my fauna teacher put emphasis in the bird identification (I'm a forestry student --Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica). Sometimes, when you are in a dense forest or thicket you can only hear the birds, so, you need a non-visual way to identify them....and here it is. I bought the "Indicator Birds of the Costa Rican Cloud Forest" (from the same Laboratory of Ornithilogy) and I hear it in my house to train my ears in the identification of non common birds.

Buy it, I'm gonna buy it too.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent and varied overview of Costa Rican bird song, January 9, 2006

By	A. Andersen (Bellows Falls, VT USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This is one of the better cd sets available on birds of Central and South America. There are two cds, covering 220 birds- available as of this writing from Cornell University Laboratory of Ornithollgy for $29.95.

CD 1 covers tinamous, raptors, doves, parrots, owls, hummingbirds, trogons, motmots, barbets, woodpeckers, foliage-gleaners, and antbirds.

CD 2 covers antbirds, becards, manakins, wrens, thrushes, warblers, caciques, oropendolas, euphonias, tanagers, grosbeaks and sparrows.

Since there is much variety, songs and calls do not become monotonous as in other Cornell releases featuring only antbirds, or only parrots. The wren family comes across as having the most consistently beautiful voices in this collection.

Here are the (for me) outstanding voices of the set:

Black-breasted Wood-Quail, Gray-breasted Crake, Red-lored Parrot, Common Potoo, Rufous Motmot, Gray-throated Leaftosser, Black-chested Jay, Plain Wren, Stripe-breasted Wren, Bay Wren, Black-throated Wren, Gray-breasted Wood-Wren, Song Wren, Slaty-backed Nightingale-Thrush, Chestnut-headed Oropendola - and the piece de resistance, the Montezuma Oropendola.

If you are planning a trip to Costa Rica, the set is indispensible. For sheer pleasure though, it is a delight to listen in wonder at the variety of voices in this tropical setting. Recommended for ornithologists, travelers and bird lovers in general.