Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 15:13:38 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Scott Crabtree Subject: Re: Best bird song CDs MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit One more addition: Lang Elliot's "Know Your Bird Sounds." While the two tapes (believe they are out in CD now as well) only cover a limited number of species, they present a much broader range of the vocalizations from these species, along with their behavioral context. It really helps when you know all or most of the vocalizations of your local, common species - the "interesting" birds stand out better. Scott Crabtree Chester, MD crabtree@myshorelink.com ----- Original Message ----- From: Norm Saunders To: Sent: Monday, April 22, 2002 6:21 PM Subject: Re: [MDOSPREY] Best bird song CDs > Claire Miller writes: > > > Along these lines, I'm wondering what you all recommend as a good > > comprehensive audio CD for learning and checking local birds' songs and > > calls. > > Claire, > > "Birding By Ear, East" and "More Birding By Ear, East" are excellent places > to start in your quest to learn bird sounds. Then, as you begin to feel > comfortable with this set, expand your collection with the "Stokes Field > Guide to Bird Songs, East." There are others, too, like the "Peterson Guide > to Bird Sounds" and the one from National Geographic. Get these as your > pocketbook allows and your skill levels grow. If you really want to test > your mettle, get the "Cornell Labs Guide to Warbler Song." It brings tears > (of frustration) to my eyes...grin. > > It helps a LOT if you have a good ear for sounds or music. If not (like me) > then the key is repetition, repetition, repetition, as well as time in the > field getting comfortable with the sounds of the common species. It will > all seem like a total confusion when all of a sudden one day you'll start > picking out birds as you drive down the road with the windows open--a most > satisfying point at which to arrive. > > Hope this helps. > > Norm > > ========================== > Norm Saunders > Colesville, Montgomery County, MD > marshhawk@att.net > > ======================================================================= > 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 ======================================================================= =========================================================================