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Stokes Field Guide to Bird Songs: Western Region Audio CD – Unabridged, April 1, 1999

by Donald Stokes (Author), Lillian Stokes (Author)

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The CD version. For beginning and advanced bird watchers and nature lovers of all kinds, here is a unique highly detailed package that allows listeners to identify Western region birds by both songs and calls. Including more species, more time per species and more sounds per species than any other guide to Western bird song, this program also offers a companion booklet providing an introduction to bird sounds and specific information about each bird and the function of each sound.

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Little, Brown & Company
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April 1, 1999
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5.63 x 1 x 4.88 inches
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1570425884
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978-1570425882
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Never before has such an extensive collection of western American bird sounds been made available to the birding public. I hope you will enjoy the sounds of these 552 species, including dozens of species and subspecies heard NOWHERE else. Birding from Brownsville, to Barrow, and in your own backyard will become a richer experience as you learn the sounds of these wonderful birds. The only species I hoped to present but could not were Mountain Plover, Sabine's gull, Cravieri's murrelet, and McKay's Bunting. (BTW the reviewer from OR will be relieved to know that the Red-naped Sapsucker voice was indeed labeled correctly, no mistaken ID.)

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Kevin J. Colver has recorded the sounds of nature in digital clarity for many years. His personal collection of over 400 species of bird vocalizations was the foundation to which recordings from a team of noted international recordists were added to produce, by far, the most complete library of western American bird sounds ever published.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Little, Brown & Company; Unabridged edition (April 1, 1999)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Audio CD ‏ : ‎ 0 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1570425884
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1570425882
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 7 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.63 x 1 x 4.88 inches

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Don and Lillian Stokes are widely recognized as America's foremost authorities on birds and nature. Their books include the bestselling Stokes Field Guide to Birds, the Stokes Beginner's Guide to Birds, the Stokes Nature Guides, and the Stokes Backyard Nature Books. They live in New Hampshire and Georgia.
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The Irish Lady

For the birds...

Reviewed in the United States on October 8, 2010

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Ok, it's your basic research/reference book on birds in the West.
For somebody who can sit for hours watching them at my feeders in the mountains, I just HAD to know what birds I was looking at. You know... needed to show off my skills when somebody asked what bird had just landed on the birdbath.
Anyway, it has helped. I have found that some of the pictures were not showing the birds at their best. Maybe it's very hard to get a good picture, but some photos are not as colorful, or sharp as they could be. I have also had a few birds visit that are not in this book, so either it's not as complete as it could be, or I have birds visiting from other geographical areas than Arizona, probably because I must have the BEST seeds and suet in the region. HA!
Anyway, this book has been great to have around and soon I will be training my grandkids on the birds in Grammy's yard.

Reviewed in the United States on April 26, 2021

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I do not plan to use the book extensively. There are omissions I have personally observed and expect there are others. One: observed a collared dove in Rio Rancho NM in early April 2021 - not in the book. Two: a large band of ring-neck doves seen in Roswell NM a few years ago in a bunch of trees in a trailer park in south Roswell. Neither of these birds is depicted in this book. Since I expect there are probably other errors or omissions, I will probably give this book to my Daughter-in-law and go back to Peterson's field guide which I have used for years

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C. Oosten

Great resource any birder should have

Reviewed in the United States on February 29, 2016

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I use Stokes all the time it's a go to for reviewing species before I start my field season. I also bought several of the Peterson audio guides as I also use them a lot. But there are many calls that no one has published so to fill in the gaps I go to Cornell for some things and [...] as a supplement for other calls/song as it's free and you can post your own recordings to help others. I find there is still a large gap in available western bird sounds and none of those available give the behavioral significance of known calls. So you should always go with more experienced birders on outings if you want to learn detailed calls, sub-songs and local variation. It's always best to see and hear the real bird but if it's not available Stokes is a helpful starting point.

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Lucinda

The Best of the Rest!

Reviewed in the United States on August 2, 2010

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I am a beginner at bird watching and so I needed clear colored photographs and detailed descriptions of each bird. I had found a bird in our dirt driveway that didn't seem to fit any of the descriptions I saw in other books. I had taken movie pictures of the bird up close and it allowed me to even hold it. I took digital photos of the bird as well. I asked neighbors and they guessed it was a warbler or a grosse beak. It's beak was the unusual part of it. It was crooked. Stokes Field Guide to Birds: Western Region, had the answer to question. The question bothered me until I found the correct answer in this detailed book. I LOVE DETAILS!!! Thank you so very much for helping my mind rest at ease with the correct answer. The bird is a female red headed Crossbill.
Again Thank You,
Lucinda M. Craven

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Emily Kim

Good product for my purposes

Reviewed in the United States on September 19, 2016

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The 4 CD product arrived as described without error. It is true the pdf requires printing out all 36 pages if you want a hard copy of the guide, and because it's in pdf form I was unable to edit (change margins, font size, etc.) before printing. Several of the tracks have two rather than one species--the guide states "Because compact discs are currently limited to 99 tracks, some species have been paired and given a single track . . . "
I downloaded the mp3 into iTunes and am making CD's more specific to my region or anticipated birding trips. Good quality recording and for my purposes (making CD's to play in the car), just what I wanted!

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cappy102

Prefer This to the New Edition

Reviewed in the United States on June 20, 2017

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Although the photos in the newest Stokes' guide are much better, this 1996 publication has valuable information that was not included in the latest edition.

Also, the range graphics are much easier to digest at a glance (yellow/warm/summer; blue/cool/winter; green/evergreen/year-round) than the latest version.

The migratory routes are a plus in the new addition, but the color coding is not intuitive like it is in this older version.

Of the two, this 1996 edition is the one I'd prefer to take into the field.

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C. Dunlap

Could have been great. however, fell short!

Reviewed in the United States on July 6, 2015

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This would be an excellent product worthy of 5 stars except for one major flaw. Disc 2 is a copy of disc 1. I thought maybe this was a mistake, so I ordered a replacement. Sure enough, disc 2 was still just a copy of disc 1. It is my hope that this gets figured out because I would love to own this collection but chances are that I will never order again to test this problem. It is really quite a shame that so much effort went into the making of this product but then have such large failures during the reproduction stage. For me, this is such a huge flaw and deserves less stars but the rest of the discs are excellent so 3 stars for that.

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PHyde

Good Content

Reviewed in the United States on July 2, 2016

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The bird calls themselves were really good, but there was no easy way to find a particular bird one wanted to hear. The pdf brochure insert that was supposed to help with this was not included so, after communicating with Amazon, I returned the product. I believe the product content would have been very good, if it could have been navigated in some way that was not evident in the package I received. Just listening to bird call after bird call would not have been helpful for us. We were trying to learn different calls and needed to be able to find those easily and quickly. Perhaps an app would have met our needs better.

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2nimm

coffret de CD exhaustif et de qualité

Reviewed in France on November 27, 2014

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coffret de 3 CD audio datant de 1999 présentant les chants et vocalisations de 551 espèces aviaires nord-américaines; chacune des 268 pistes réparties sur les 3 disques présente de une à trois espèces en 90 secondes maximum; ce coffret très complet est la référence absolue pour l'Amérique du Nord si vous voulez une base de chants; ne pas s'en priver si on trouve un exemplaire à bas prix

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A Xmas present to myself and well worth it. ...

Reviewed in Canada on July 3, 2015

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A Xmas present to myself and well worth it. Very well done and I use it a lot to help me know what a bird is when I can't find it in the trees and shrubs though I can hear it.

Barb B

No insert to say what is on the discs. ...

Reviewed in Canada on May 13, 2016

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No insert to say what is on the discs. Supposed to be there but missing in both sets. A student of mine needed to use them but found that some of the narration and sounds in not match. What is going on. Ha anybody else had this problem?

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