Birding by Ear: Western North America (Peterson Field Guide Audio Series)

Birding by Ear: Western North America (Peterson Field Guide Audio Series)
by Richard K. Walton, Robert W. Lawson

Birding by Ear: Western North America (Peterson Field Guide Audio Series)
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Author: Richard K. Walton, Robert W. Lawson
Editor: Roger Tory Peterson
Illustrator: John Sill
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1999-04-15
ISBN: 0395975255
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Summary of Birding by Ear: Western North America (Peterson Field Guide Audio Series)

Birding by Ear: Western is a unique and important new tool for birders. Now they can master one of the most useful and difficult field skills - the ability to recognize birds by their songs and calls. Birding By Ear: Western points out exactly what to listen for to tell one bird from another. As the Peterson Field Guide groups birds by visual similarity, Birding by Ear: Western groups them by acoustic similarity. Dick Walton and Bob Lawson have arranged ninety-one common species into nineteen intelligible learning groups - "sing-songers," "trillers," "name-sayers," "warbling songsters," and many others. The entertaining and educational narrative does the same job as the arrows in the Peterson Field Guide to Eastern Birds, pinpointing the precise differences between similar species. The songs themselves are recorded to the highest acoustic standards and are a delight to listen to.
Birding by Ear: Western can enable anyone to become a better birder. Use it in conjunction with the Peterson Field Guide to Western Bird Songs, which provides a thorough catalog of the songs and calls of the familiar birds of western North America. Birding by Ear: Western may well become as essential to you as your Field Guide and binoculars.

Ever wonder what that trill in the backyard is? Or how to distinguish between all those similar warbler songs? Try Birding by Ear. This great resource for birders all over western North America conveniently packages three cassettes and an accompanying booklet into a single videocassette-like box. Each tape groups bird species according to acoustic similarity in order to help you learn the basics of bird-song identification. Soon you'll know just by listening whether the bird skulking underneath the bushes is an orange-crowned warbler, a chipping sparrow, or a dark-eyed junco.

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