Synopses & Reviews
The Stokes Field Guide to Bird Songs: Western Region offers you the very best sound recordings available for the birds of western North America.
It includes more species, more time per species, and more sounds per species than any other audio guide to Western bird songs.
In addition, the recordings are accompanied by an informative pdf booklet that gives precise call and song descriptions of the 551 species included.
This is a marvelous companion to the book The Stokes Field Guide to the Birds of North America and the audiobook The Stokes Field Guide to Bird Songs: Eastern Region.
Donald and Lillian Stokes are widely recongized as America's foremost authorities on birds and nature. Their newest book, The Stokes Field Guide to the Birds of North America is the most comprehensive photographic field guide to birds ever published. They have written more than thirty other books, which have cumulatively sold more than 4.5 million copies, including the bestselling Stokes Field Guide to Birds (Eastern and Western editions), the Stokes Beginner's Guide to Birds, the Stokes Nature Guides, and the Stokes Backyard Nature Books. They have hosted a popular public television series, Stokes Birds at Home, and offer current birding information on their Stokes Birding Blog, which features Lillian Stokes's stunning photography.
"The Stokeses are birding's first family." -Birding Business
This is the ultimate audio field guide for today's birder- the most comprehensive, clearest, most useful audio identification guide to the birds of the Western region ever produced.
Now updated for modern convenience in the field !As a special bonus, one MP3 CD is included, containing all the bird sound files with voice narration removed for use on your MP3 device.
Synopsis
Recent surveys by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service indicate that 70 million people feed and watch birds in the United States. The easiest way to locate and identify the widest variety of bird species is often through sound. These clear recordings allow listeners to identify not only more species, but also more sounds per species, including their unique songs and calls. Comprehensive and informative, each entry starts with the name of the bird, followed by its respective song and call. Additionally, both audio packages contain a companion booklet featuring:
-- a brief introduction to bird sounds
-- an alphabetical index to Western birds
-- common and scientific names of each bird
-- habitats and locations of each bird
-- a list of the bird's sounds by name with brief descriptions of the functions of these sounds
-- and much more.
Table of Contents
Disc 1. Loons through cranes -- Disc 2. Plovers through nightjars -- Disc 3. Swifts through gnatcatchers -- Thrushers through weavers.