Peterson Field Guide to Bird Sounds of Western North America
Book description
A comprehensive field guide that uses an innovative Sound Index to allow readers to quickly identify unfamiliar songs and calls of birds in western North America.
Bird songs and calls are at least as important as visual field marks in identifying birds. Yet short of memorizing each bird’s repertoire, it’s…
Why read it?
1 author picked Peterson Field Guide to Bird Sounds of Western North America as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
This book taught me how to hear birds.
We all see birds to some degree. But most people completely miss their sounds. That’s where this book comes in, as a guide to the vocalization of all the western birds (there is an eastern version, too) with transliterations, spectrograms, and curated online recordings.
Here’s what I recommend you do to instantly enrich your life: sit outside, wait until a bird sings or calls, then look it up in this book. Read the description, look at the spectrogram, and play the recording if needed. Now you know a bird by ear. Now,…
From Jack's list on watching birds with pleasure and understanding.
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