Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2000 13:44:16 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: gonbrdn Subject: Re: Birding CD-ROMS- Opinions Wanted MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi Greg: One further question on the Thayers; is there much in the way of call notes? That is what I really find lacking in my Petersons CD Rom. Thanks, Leslie Greg Downing wrote: > I own both the Peterson's and the Thayer and I have to say that the songs on > the Thayer software are light years better in sound quality that the > Petersen's. As far as variations in song there is only one sound file for > each bird but there are some variations. All in all the Thayer software is > much much better. The only down side is that it loads images slowly, but > usually isn't a big concern. I have a 200 MHZ Pentium, but I'm sure the > newer faster chips help in this area. I have no experience with the other > item you mentioned, but I do know that the Thayer is supposed to be the best > out there. Hope this helps you > > Greg Downing > Manchester, MD > gregdowning@mindspring.com > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "gonbrdn" > To: > Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2000 4:12 PM > Subject: [MDOSPREY] Birding CD-ROMS- Opinions Wanted > > > Hi All: > > I am getting ready to give my husband the Xmas list, and need some > > opinions!! I have been using Peterson CD-ROM to Eastern Birds for bird > > song reference, and want to upgrade, especially to something that might > > include more CALLS and variations of song. Does anyone have experience > > with quality of the following: > > > > 1. BIRDS OF NORTH AMERICA > > Thayer Birding Software- pictures and songs of 918 NA birds. > > Would cover a wider range of birds, espcially if I make that trip > > through Eastern CDA summer 2001. > > > > 2. AVISYS SONG > > - features reference songs from a set of 2 CDs. > > > > 3. CD-ROM Guide to EASTERN BIRDS > > - features songs/calls of 400+ eastern species and video clips. > > - also has listing programs > > - price reasonable at 65$$ > > I am particularly interested in this latter item if anyone has any > > experience with this. It was advertised in the most recent > > BIRDERS WORLD. > > > > Thanks for any input on these or any not-mentioned bird song CD-ROMs > > > > Leslie Fisher > > Cecil Co. > > > > ======================================================================= > > To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com > > with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey > > ======================================================================= > > ======================================================================= > To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com > with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey > ======================================================================= ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================