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Summary: Buy it for your cats!
Review: Actually you'll find it useful and accurate too. Fun to use, lots of songs, and my two feline birders went bananas. Who would know better? Good value for the money and the proceeds go to a good cause.
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Summary: Learning is easy with John's cd!!
Review: I was always good at idenfitying birds by site but not by call and thanks to John's cd I am now good at both. I listen to it all of the time and would be lost without it. It is very informative and clever. I would suggest this cd over any other bird call cd! Thanks John for this great learning tool!! My cat loves it too.
Jayne Gulbrand
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Summary: Perfecting your birding skills is EASY!
Review: John Feith had a brilliant idea (for us birders!) when he came up with this CD - pnemonics for bird sounds! It doesn't get much better than this because it is now so much easier to recognize bird calls and songs. Luckily I am a Midwestern bird lover who can fully reap the rewards of such a wonderfully produced CD. Thanks John!
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Summary: A unique and impressive CD audiobook
Review: John Feith's Bird Song Ear Training Guide is a unique and impressive CD audiobook providing instructions on how to recognize songs of birds common to the states of the Midwest and Northeast (including Wisconsin where almost all the bird songs were recorded and the post-production work was done). Each distinctive bird song is followed by a mnemonic or a short description. The bird is identified and a review sound is played again that fixes the song's identity in the mind of the listener. The Bird Song Ear Training Guide is enhanced with a quiz format which will aid the listener to focus on learning how to identify the bird songs. A complete list of bird species and mnemonics is included in an insert. All profits from this enthusiastically recommended CD instructional for birdwatchers will go to the Nature Conservancy and the Wisconsin Society for Ornithology.
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Summary: Unbiased Review by the Author
Review: One might call this CD a companion "ear training guide" to the Stokes Field Guide to Bird Songs. Or maybe a condensed Birding by Ear. It falls between the two in terms of number of birds (189) and amount of narration (about 5 seconds following each bird song). It has the lovely voice of a female narrator (unusual for a bird tape) and the birds have a tinge of a Wisconsin accent.For some, the main draw of this CD is that one is allowed to guess before being told the name of the bird singing. Others might like the number of memorable mnemonics and brief song descriptions used. For those in the Midwest, the main draw might be that all the birds were recorded in Wisconsin (although most of the birds can be heard over much of the Eastern United States). And finally, the fact that one can review or "take a quiz" on the songs of 189 birds in only 60 minutes is a big advantage over the multi-CD guides. This is, of course, only the opinion of the unbiased author.
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Summary: excellent learning disk for new birders
Review: Our family has owned a patch of shore/forest land in Wisconsin for 20 years although none have been birders. With this disk we easily learned to identify species and discovered the diversity that we never noticed previously. The call/naming/call format of this disk is excellent for new birders and the numbers of species covered is ideal. I use the Stokes disk set as a reference but the name/call format and large number species covered does not facilitate learning the calls.
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Summary: Wish it were more comprehensive
Review: Very good job. Love the mnemonics. I wish it had near the calls that the Stokes and Peterson CD's did. Also, letting us hear the call first, before telling the bird name is great.
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