Peterson Field Guide to Bird Sounds of Western North America

A comprehensive field guide that uses an innovative Sound Index to allow readers to quickly identify unfamiliar...
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Author: Nathan Pieplow
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Language: English
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Peterson Field Guide to Bird Sounds of Western North America by Pieplow, Nathan

Peterson Field Guide to Bird Sounds of Western North America

$74.00

Peterson Field Guide to Bird Sounds of Western North America

$74.00
Author: Nathan Pieplow
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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 difficult to sort through them all. Now, with the western edition of this groundbreaking book, it's possible to visually distinguish bird sounds and identify birds using a field-guide format.

At the core of this guide is the spectrogram, a visual graph of sound. With a brief introduction to five key aspects--speed, repetition, pauses, pitch pattern, and tone quality--readers can translate what they hear into visual recognition, without any musical training or auditory memorization.

The Sound Index groups similar songs together, narrowing the identification choices quickly to a brief list of birds that are likely to be confused because of the similarity of their songs. Readers can then turn to the species account for more information and/or listen to the accompanying audio tracks available online.

Identifying birds by sound is arguably the most challenging and important skill in birding. This book makes it vastly easier to master than ever before.

Author: Nathan Pieplow
Publisher: Mariner Books
Published: 04/02/2019
Pages: 648
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 2.00lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.30w x 1.50d
ISBN: 9780547905570


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 07/01/2019 pg. 91

About the Author
NATHAN PIEPLOW has been fascinated by birds since his childhood in South Dakota, and has intensively studied bird sounds since 2003. He is the former editor of the journal Colorado Birds and an author of the Colorado Birding Trail. He lives in Boulder, Colorado, and teaches writing and rhetoric at the University of Colorado.

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