This field guide helps to identify bird sounds. The guide is organized by habitat, with atmospheric backgrounds and voice-overs discussing how to tell the difference between each species, so the reader can quickly learn all the calls he can hear when visiting his local wood, or marshland RSPB reserve. Over 158 species are covered, the focus being on common birds and birds that are difficult to separate visually, but easy when the calls are heard. The accompanying booklet gives background information on each species, plus an introductory section on bird song, where and when it can be heard, and how to make your own recordings.

Birds Song & Calls of Britain & Northern Europe (Collins Field Guide)

Science & Math

SAMPLE, Geoff

Biological Sciences

Harpercollins Pub, Ltd.

In "Collins Field Guide to Bird Songs and Calls", Geoff Sample introduced a way of helping to identify bird songs. In this companion volume he covers a further 130 species and helps the reader to identify some of the trickier and rarer species. Each group is grouped together on the basis of what they sound like. Starting with a common, familiar species, the listener is introduced to the variation between each similar-sounding species. Geoff Sample also explains the major differences between the species, so that the listener can identify the species with ease. The accompanying book highlights these differences and also gives background information on when and where you are likely to hear each species singing, further helping to identify the bird. This CD and book is aimed at everybody who has difficulty in identifying bird song in the wild, whether common or rare birds.

Bird Call Identification (Collins Field Guide)

"Nature Safari" is designed to encourage youngsters to learn all about nature in an active rather than a passive way, and to have fun at the same time. Covering the most easily accessible habitats - the seashore, woodland, gardens, towns, parks, rivers and ponds - the book contains 100 nature topics and activities. These range from rockpooling, searching for animal tracks and signs to discovering more about the sun, moon and stars. For each subject there is an informative introduction, with simple notes on key identification features and when and where to go looking for wildlife, as well as interesting and amusing facts and anecdotes. Each subject features a "project" which the reader can get involved in to increase their knowledge, whether it is making a sundial, growing plants from seed in the garden or going pond dipping.

Nature Safari: Imaginative Things For You & Your Children to Do Outdoors

Children's Books

Science, Nature & How It Works

HarperCollins, UK

The only CD audio guide to the Warblers of Britain and Europe, one of the hardest groups of birds to identify. Often known as 'little brown jobs' as they are so difficult to distinguish visually, many warblers can only be identified positively by their songs and calls. The three CDs contained in this book provide high quality recordings of all the Warbler species that occur in Britain and Europe, and the accompanying book explains how to interpret the sounds and make an accurate identification. Aimed at keen birders, and those who want to find out more about this intriguing family, this book will doubtless become an essential tool for warbler identification.

Warbler Songs & Calls of Britain and Europe (Collins Field Guide)

Nature & Ecology

HarperCollins UK Audio

This second edition of the acclaimed Collins Guide to Bird Songs and Calls includes re-recorded versions of the original habitat CDs—ensuring that they are even clearer, but just as atmospheric—introducing the user to the major bird habitats of Britain and the birds that live in them. The new edition also contains a third CD containing a unique beginner's guide to birdsong in a course of 12 monthly sessions. Covering around 30 of the most common garden and parkland bird species in the 12 sessions, it also gives an outline of the behavioral context—when the different species sing, why they sing and what is going on in the wider bird community. The group of species featured each month will be chosen for the similarities in their voices and songs; often this will mean birds of the same family. By introducing a group of similar sounding birds each month—and starting with the easy birds first—this accessible guide will help one to quickly appreciate the wonderful range of bird voices and to discover just what birdsong is all about.

Collins Bird Songs & Calls

Reference

Garden bird songs and calls: book and CD by Geoff SAMPLE (2000-05-03)

Sports & Outdoors

Field Guides

Collins

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