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Birding by Ear: Eastern and Central North America (Peterson Field Guides(R))
written by Richard K. Walton, Robert W. Lawson
Studio : Houghton Mifflin
by Houghton Mifflin
Brand : Peterson Books
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin
Released : 2002-04-04
Availability : Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Number of Items : 3
EAN : 9780618225903
UPC : 046442225908
Avg. Customer Rating: (based on 29 reviews)
List Price : $30.00
Our Price : $14.92
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Product Description |
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Features: Educational and entertaining method for learning bird songs. Greatly enhanced the field experience for birders across North America. Learn the songs and calls of eighty-five species of birds found east of the Rockies. Uses techniques such as phonetics, mnemonics, and descriptive words. Includes an informative 64-page booklet. |
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Birding by Ear - First set |
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Birding by Ear is an excellent way to learn to identify birds. It is just going to take me some time to get through all the calls and get them in my poor brain. Not the fault of the cd's - just the fault of my overworked brain. |
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Love this CD |
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Birding by Ear is a great group of 4 CD's for beginner birders. It has great illustrations in the accompanying book and the narrator is wonderfully helpful. We love it!! |
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Even better on CD! |
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We live on 10 acres and have wondered what birds make certain calls. These CDs teach you how to learn the calls and songs in a fun way. (Who knew there was a difference in a song and a call?) We found out that we had birds we didn't know we had because we had never seen them, but after learning their songs, we started looking and have seen brightly colored orioles and indigo buntings. You would think you could see a brightly colored orange bird, but knowing what to look for is a great help. The way the author teaches is with easy to remember tricks. It is a great teaching device for kids too. There are lots of hints on how to best use the CD's too. Even knowing just a few songs makes you more aware of the sounds around you. The other night I heard "who cooks for you? who cooks for you all?" I went and woke my daughter up and asked, what bird says that? She knew right off it was a Barred Owl and got up to come hear it in person. Awesome CDs. We also bought "More Birding by Ear" but haven't had time to listen to it yet. They even have a list of songs at the end so you can see if you remember what you learned. The songs are also grouped by type to help you remember them. Similar sounding songs are also placed next to each other so that it makes it easier to tell the difference between them. There was a lot of thought put into making this such a great product and it is well worth it! I am not an audio learner, but even I am getting better at ID'ing birds by their sounds. |
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Best birding by ear course |
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If you're looking to learn how to recognize birds just by sounds, then this is it. These CD's are excellent. I would recommend them for both beginner and expert alike. I have been birding since High School and am now 37 and learned about a lot of birds that I had heard but hadn't seen. I finished these CD's and am now working on More birding by ear(the second set of this series). It's amazing the birds you recognize as you are just walking down the street or in the woods. To be able to hear a bird in the distance and know what it is is great feeling. |
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Excellent Source |
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Excellent recordings and presentation make learning bird songs easy. Highly reccomend. Combined with excellent service from Americancivilwar made this a satisfying purchase. |
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