| Bird Songs: 250 North American Birds in Song | 
 enlarge | Author: Les Beletsky
Creator: Jon L. Dunn
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Category: Book
List Price: $45.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  170 reviews
Sales Rank: 457
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 368
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3.8
Dimensions (in): 11 x 10.9 x 1.1
ISBN: 1932855416
Dewey Decimal Number: 598.1594
EAN: 9781932855418
ASIN: 1932855416
Publication Date: September 21, 2006
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 Fantastic Book December 26, 2006
5 out of 9 found this review helpful
I recently purchased this book for my daughter who was eight at the time. I love it, she loves it. There is just enough information about each bird and the sounds are clear, the volume works really well. This is a great gift to give a child for learning purposes or for an adult who may already be a fan of birds.
 A great resource and a great gift December 8, 2006
24 out of 24 found this review helpful
I have been birding for a couple years now and I love it, but it is so confounding to hear a really interesting bird call and not know what on earth it could be. This book does for the ears what a regular field guide does for the eyes, and it helps an enthusiastic novice like me get into birding even more. Not to mention that it's just cool and very easy to use. My only wish is that they would have included more calls in each recording, as often the call in the book is a specialized mating or distress call and not necessarily the one you'd be most likely to hear in the field. But I guess they had to go with what they had, and it is quite amazing to get 250 bird calls in one volume, plus pictures and descriptions. I definitely recommend this book for anyone who loves birds or loves someone else who loves birds.
 Good coffee table book November 28, 2006
81 out of 91 found this review helpful
I'm a birder, and like to have ALL the birding books. This book has a coolness factor, but definitely something to have, show, and use at home, or give as a gift to another birder. It is too heavy and bulky to take along, and the birds are not organized taxonomically. They are organized by habitat. I also found that there is the 'usual' eastern U.S. skew to the birds that were in the book. So, this is an interesting book that I will add to my birding library. I'm not even sure how much of a research source it will be. I wonder how long it will be before this technology makes it to a usable field guide. That will definitely be a usable item - not just to identify a bird song in the field, but to play the bird song to draw in nearby birds.
What a cool book! November 16, 2006
70 out of 73 found this review helpful
As a (very) amateur birder, I am continually frustrated by hearing birds I can't see and not having a clue as to what that bird might be. This neat book links the description, the drawing AND the sound!
I think it would be an aid to more accomplished birders who try to describe bird calls to others, a joy to children just learning about birds and a help to the avian-challenged rest of us.
Simply Amazing September 29, 2006
Perhaps I am not the best person to review the quality and accuracy of the songs in this book/audio player (I would leave that to Rick Johnson of Osprey Ridge Studios who created the Hearbirds Course on CD available at [..] but as the former publisher of Waite Group Press [..] I must say that this is one of the most innovative and fun to use products to appear in book publishing in a long time.
The way its put together is really creative - the electronic device glued strongly to the back cover is available at all times as you turn the pages. The system is minimalist which is its real charm. - a rocker switch increments an odometer like counter up or down. The number is keyed to the number on the bird page. In the middle of the rocker is a push button that starts the song playing. One more button controls the volume. That's it!
The illustrations are very nice, soft watercolors, unlike the hard edged and brighter drawings found in traditional field guides like those from Peterson and National Geographic. The descriptive text about each bird is short and to the point, my only complaint is that its gray color is not easy to read on older eyes. Yet that is minor compared to the enjoyment I got just turning the pages and pushing the button.
When I was at borders a crowd formed around me as they heard the bird calls - many thought a hawk had been trapped in the building. I highly recommend this book (and the price is right).
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