A unique beginner's guide to bird song with 3 CDs of crystal-clear digital recordings & a comprehensive guide to identifying more complex songs & calls. The new Collins Bird Songs & Calls
Includes:: re-recorded versions of the original habitat CDs
- ensuring that they are even clearer but just as atmospheric
- introducing the user to the major bird habitats of Britain & the birds that live in them. This new edition also features a third CD containing a unique guide to identifying more complex songs & calls with tips on what aspects of the song or call are the distinguishing characteristics. Beginning with simple similar-sounding songs it gradually moves through more difficult distinctions & on to a comprehensive section on passerine calls. Species that often occur in the same habitat are treated together. An accompanying full-colour guide explores the historical background to how recordings of bird songs & calls have developed & been appreciated over the years along with species accounts of the behaviour of all of our common birds. Collins Bird Songs & Calls will help you to quickly appreciate the wonderful range of bird voices & discover just what bird song is all about. A walk in the park will never be the same again.