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Title: Birding by Ear: A Guide to Bird-Song Identification/Eastern/Central (Peterson Field Guide Series/Book & 3 Cassettes) by Richard K. Walton, Robert W. Lawson, Roger Tory Peterson ISBN: 0-395-50087-7 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: 01 March, 1989 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.67 (9 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A great choice for the first step in learning birdsong
Comment: If you live in North America east of the Mississipi and want to identify birds by ear, read on...
This audio set is a very well thought out and produced tutorial for introducing beginning "ear" birders to the world of birding by ear. The audio quality is excellent with several renditions of each song and call. The pace is well suited to the target audience - only after repeated listening will you want to skip ahead through sections. The groupings of similar songs seem well designed, and reflect situations in the field that pose problems. Each song is described verbally, with an onomatopoetic description. I wish the CD were coded so that sub-tracks could be accessed directly without the introductory descriptions, but the design of this set isn't as encyclopedia of song, rather as short course in learning how to identify song.
Buy this and the "More birding by ear", listen to them for 10 - 30 minutes a day (great drive time listening), and master the art of birding by ear!
Rating: 2
Summary: Birding by Ear, Eastern/Central, Peterson Field Guides
Comment: ....This set of audio tapes was a disappointment to me. I had wanted a set of bird songs to accompany my new Peterson Eastern Birds field guide, 4th edition.( Previously, I had owned the 2nd edition and its excellent, page-coordinated, accompanying tapes and had used them for years.) I bought this new set of audio tapes blind, so to speak, because they were shrink-wrapped with no real description visible. No one in any of the retail stores I consulted knew anything about them nor was willing to break into the shrink-wrapping.
....Birding by Ear, Eastern/Central is actually a 3-tape short course in identifying bird calls. It is essentially useless for field identification. To make use of this set of tapes, one would have to sit down and listen and listen and listen to interminable commentary by a sonorous male voice introducing bird calls in clusters that are of minimal use because they are grouped by similarity, which often doesn't translate into geography or habitat. The second side of the third tape is a "review" that is actually a test.... one must listen to a series of unidentified songs and try to remember what they are, after having spent the hours required to listen to the other 5 sides of the tapes.
.... The up side of this set of tapes is that the bird song recordings are excellent. They include both the song and the call. (But they are useless in the field in this format.)
Rating: 5
Summary: Great Tool!!!!
Comment: Great learning tool for the novice and a great reminder for the seasoned veteran.
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Title: A Field Guide to Western Bird Songs : Western North America by Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology ISBN: 0395975190 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: 15 April, 1999 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Stokes Field Guide to Bird Songs:Western Region/Abridged by Donald & Lillian Stokes ISBN: 1570425884 Publisher: Warner Adult Pub. Date: 01 April, 1999 List Price(USD): $34.98 |
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Title: The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Western North America by David Allen Sibley ISBN: 0679451218 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 29 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Birding by Ear: Eastern and Central North America (Peterson Field Guides(R)) by Richard K. Walton, Robert W. Lawson ISBN: 0618225900 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: 04 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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Title: More Birding by Ear Eastern and Central North America : A Guide to Bird-song Identification by Richard K. Walton, Robert W. Lawson, Roger Tory Peterson ISBN: 0618225927 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: 04 April, 2000 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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