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Stokes Field Guide to Bird Songs: Eastern Region (3 CDs) Audio CD – Audiobook, April 1 1997

by Lang Elliot (Author, Reader), Donald Stokes (Author), Lillian Stokes (Author)

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The easiest-to-use and most comprehensive field guide to North American birds-from the country's preeminent writers on birds and nature Drawing on more than twenty years' experience as bird and wildlife experts, Donald and Lillian Stokes have produced field guides that are factually, visually, and organizationally superior to any other books you can buy. You'll find: * All the identification information on a single page-color photographs, range map, and detailed description. No more fumbling to match photos with text! * For fast reference-a compact alphabetical index inside the front and back covers. * More than 900 high-resolution color identification photographs. * An illustrated Quick Guide to the most common backyard and feeder birds. * Convenient colored tabs keyed to each bird group. * Concise and comprehensive text, with information on habitat; plumage variation; feeding, nesting, and mating behavior; bird feeder proclivity; and-for the first time in any guide-population trends and conservation status.

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English
Publisher

Little, Brown & Company
Publication date

April 1 1997
Dimensions

12.7 x 2.54 x 14.29 cm
ISBN-10

1570424837
ISBN-13

978-1570424830
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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Little, Brown & Company; Unabridged edition (April 1 1997)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1570424837
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1570424830
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 12.7 x 2.54 x 14.29 cm

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Donald W. Stokes
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Don and Lillian Stokes are widely recognized as America's foremost authorities on birds and nature. Their books include the bestselling Stokes Field Guide to Birds, the Stokes Beginner's Guide to Birds, the Stokes Nature Guides, and the Stokes Backyard Nature Books. They live in New Hampshire and Georgia.
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Lillian Q. Stokes
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Lang Elliott
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Hi friends! My name is Lang Elliott and I am an author, speaker, cinematographer, sound recordist, and even an aspiring nature poet. I am interested in celebrating the wonder and beauty of nature, touching upon the miracle of existence, and understanding our role in the great mystery of it all.
To learn more about me and my passions, please visit langelliott.com, my personal website (be sure to sign up for my free newsletter and blog!). In addition, I have recently launched musicofnature.com, a friendly online store where I sell pure nature recordings for relaxation and personal enjoyment (available as digital downloads and CDs).
Lately, I've been dreaming up a new book project that will focus on nature aesthetics and appreciation. In addition, I'm planning to produce at least two nature-oriented movies. What's more, I've been writing a lot of nature poetry (the kind that actually rhymes!).
NOTE: The best way to keep track of my activities is via my blog at langelliott.com.
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DJC

Great Book!!!

Reviewed in Canada on October 26, 2023

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Very informative Book!!

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Amazon Customer

Great product. Booklet included is a PDF file

Reviewed in Canada on May 27, 2017

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Purchased as a gift. Fast shipping. Only giving it 4 starts because it says it's included with a "guide booklet" for reference but its just the CD's with a PDF version of the booklet.

Reviewed in Canada on February 26, 2021

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great

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Gus

Good recordings but not set up to be useful

Reviewed in Canada on December 5, 2018

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The CDs have lots of real good recordings of bird calls but as a reference for looking up sounds it is difficult to use. It should have come with a good index so you could look up and listen to compare with what you're hearing in the trees.

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Xmas present to myself and with both of these bird ...

Reviewed in Canada on July 3, 2015

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Xmas present to myself and with both of these bird song CD's I can find almost anything I'm looking for most of the time.

Reviewed in Canada on March 22, 2019

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Merci.

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Bill

Five Stars

Reviewed in Canada on May 14, 2016

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Handy item if you are really into birds.

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AmazonUserFromCanada123

Five Stars

Reviewed in Canada on August 19, 2015

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Nice selection of songs.

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Steven C

Relive Hitchcock.

Reviewed in the United States on May 18, 2001

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A fellow birder brought Stoke's discs on a bird walk early one refreshing May morn' along with a small CD player. I admit I felt uneasy. This was a chance to get away from technology, not be weighed down by it. But yee' have little faith.
Within a few foot falls we heard what our guide identified as a common yellow throat warbler off in the bush. It seemed this bird was teasing us, saying, "i'm out here but you'll never see me, ha, ha, ha". My friend frantically fumbled with the discs and clicked the >> button 39 times as he counted out loud. Guess he didn't see the little number on the display. To our surprise, as the sound sample played, and we all nodded in agreement "uh-huh, yep, that's it", the warbler hastily arrived on the scene, mad as friggin' hell. He popped all around us from tree to tree as we excitedly looked through our binocs in what birdwatchers often lie about at conventions. Apparently, the bird wholeheartedly endorses the CD. In fact, lucky for us we weren't in Bodega Bay with a couple of fish crows and a script from Alfred Hitchcock.
The best part was we all got a great close up view of this striking warbler! Samples also worked with an oven bird, house wren, and blue-winged warbler. But don't take my word for it, 4 out 5 birds recommend Stoke's to all the birdwatch challenged.

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K.L. PJ

Pair it with the Petersons Birding by Ear and More Birding by Ear

Reviewed in the United States on March 12, 2020

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I recommend starting out your birdsong learning journey with the Peterson guides. Then try Stokes. This Stokes guide is good for supplementing what you learn from the Petersons. Stokes gives you more calls per bird which is really nice (I didn't realize Downy woodpeckers "chattered", or Great Horned Owls could almost sound like Barn Owls!), and puts all species of a kind together - because it literally is an audible field guide, but you'll miss the verbal descriptions ("Oh, sweet Canada Canada Canada") and side by side unrelated species comparisons (Cardinal vs Tufted Titmouse) of the "Birding By Ear" sets.

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Celeus Obrieni

Encyclopedic

Reviewed in the United States on October 28, 2020

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Maybe not the best, and by that I mean easiest, place to start learning bird songs but if you are serious about it this is a fantastic, five star, reference.

My recommendations for beginners learning bird song, in order, would be:

1) Birding by Ear: Eastern/Central (Peterson Field Guides)
2) Bird Song Ear Training: Who Cooks Poor Sam Peabody
3) Stokes Field Guide to Bird Songs: Eastern Region

Combine these CD's with the Larkwire phone app and you will be well on your way to birding by ear.

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fresh hopped

Good package, but..

Reviewed in the United States on September 5, 2011

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..has no removable insert that lists Families and Species by CD so searching CD's (3 in packet) is difficult unless you know the natural order/breaks or you reference/print the digital booklet. Cumbersome.

Audio files in CD 1-3 has species introduction followed by calls. Bonus CD (#4) is helpful (audio files are labeled [no intro]), can be uploaded to an mp3 player (great) and has a printable .pdf file containing mnemonics, CD/track info, etc.

Not as out-of the-box friendly as I thought it would be (compare the western CD set which has a small paper reference inset - think selecting/playing CD's in truck) but if omitting the removable inset saves some paper, great.

Audio files excellent quality and has some good non-call cues (wing whir, etc).

4 stars for the bonus CD, without = 3

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Jay

A comprehensive collection

Reviewed in the United States on March 22, 2008

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Over 350 bird species are represented in this set (3 CDs, 99 tracks per CD, some tracks having more than one species). I find it to be very complete; it even includes several species that only occur as accidentals in the east region.

The recordings usually include several vocalizations for each species (songs, warning calls, imitations of other birds, or chip notes). Most samples are about 35 seconds long.

The short introductory track, in which the Stokes very obviously read from a script, is perhaps worth a laugh, but you'll probably want to move on quickly to the bird calls.

I have enjoyed birding for years and am familiar with a wide range of calls, and I am finding this set very useful for reinforcement of the ones I know and for learning the ones that I only hear for several weeks a year, such as transient species of warblers. I recommend it.

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