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The Backyard Birdsong Guide: Western North America (Backyard Birdsong Guide) | 
| Author: Donald Kroodsma
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Category: Book
List Price: $24.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  13 reviews
Sales Rank: 6066
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 192
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 8.1 x 7.2 x 0.8
ISBN: 0811863972
Dewey Decimal Number: 598.1594097
EAN: 9780811863971
Publication Date: April 23, 2008
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Product Description
Building on the tremendous success of Bird Songs (250,000 copies sold), The Backyard Birdsong Guides are regional, interactive handbooks of birds and their songs for beginning bird-watchers. With a touch-button electronic module housing common vocalizations of 75 species from across Western North America, this volume offers a truly sensory way to identify and get to know local birds. Crisply detailed and scientifically accurate illustrations accompany each entry, and up-to-date range maps from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology provide clear geographical reference points. Complete with an introduction to birdsong that will inspire readers to look out their kitchen windows and venture out in the field, this unique book provides an exciting entryway into the subtle art of birding.
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 ENJOYABLE TEACHING TOOL November 26, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
My grandson received this book as a gift and I had to have one. We recently moved to a home with a yard full of trees and bushes, a great habitat to attract and feed birds. I have been able to identify some of them by their song and the gorgeous pictures displayed in this book. I believe I have just developed a new and enjoyable hobby.
 "The Bird Says....." November 23, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
The first copy of this book I received did not work. It was a birthday gift so we were very disappointed. We exchanged the book and the replacement works just fine. This book is good for the casual backyard watcher, but I think the hard core bird watcher would want a little more. Sound clips were a bit short. Sound quality is moderate.
It reminds me of those old pull string things I had when I was a kid. "The cow says.... moooooo" etcetera. This book is a lot like those games, only with a lot more sounds.
We like it and it has been helpful. I would give it a 4 star, but the first copy didn't work. I took off another star for poor quality.
Appropriate gift for avid birdwatchers November 23, 2008
This was a gift for avid birdwatchers who still seemed pleased with the book; I'd heard the author speak about it, and how as we get older sometimes seeing the markings birders depend on gets harder, and how useful knowing the songs can be. Our recipients reported delight so that seems to confirm the appropriateness of book for all levels of birders.
Backyard Birdsong Guide October 28, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
The product arrived quickly, however the batteries that came with it were dead which was not satisfactory.
Offering an interactive format in audio word as well as written language and visual images October 13, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Any home library strong in field guides probably has more than one bird book; but this is something different, offering an interactive format in audio word as well as written language and visual images. Some seventy unique birds from Western North America are featured, in a book which offers one-touch buttons of digital audios to pair with descriptions of songs, calls and behaviors. Home birders who want to identify by more than pictures will find this an easy, appealing guide with a difference.
Diane C. Donovan
California Bookwatch
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