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 enlarge | Author: Donald Kroodsma
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Category: Book
List Price: $16.95
Buy New: $5.36
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Avg. Customer Rating:  21 reviews
Sales Rank: 36808
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 496
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.1
Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 6.7 x 1.3
ISBN: 0618840761
Dewey Decimal Number: 598.1594
EAN: 9780618840762
ASIN: 0618840761
Publication Date: April 25, 2007
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Condition: Some shelfwear. Soft folds/indentations from previous shipping. Clean, crisp & tight, never read. NO- remainder mark! Sealed CD. May have remainder mark unless previously noted. Dlvy confirmation within US included. Shipping Fast, except Hawaii and Alaska. Our Provident name: making timely fulfillment & thorough preparation to secure a future together.
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The Singing Life of Birds January 9, 2007
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
A scientist's very personal record of the life and song of the great number of birds, including a CD with autor's recordings as well as the recordings of some of his colleagues. The extensive and interesting narrative is supplemented by many analyses of the structure of the bird's song. Author's interest and knowledge of music is reflected in comparing the birds' and human's music "appreciation". The sonagrams are shown in the text as well on the screen in their multifaceted form.
The Singing Life of Birds January 9, 2007
2 out of 6 found this review helpful
Excellent service. Prompt shipping. The book is fascinating as is the accompanying CD. Would recommend to anyone with an interest in birds and wildlife.
out of this world! July 30, 2006
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
One can only think the amount of knowledge Don has on bird sounds is in a different scale to the rest. But then he finds the way to transmit a good portion of it with simple and very easy to read stories and that becomes even more incredible. A very beautiful book in all senses.
 Book is fascinating but CD is confusing June 28, 2006
18 out of 24 found this review helpful
Criticism of the CD: What I wanted was a CD where the type of bird would be announced on the CD before or after the song, so that I could listen to the CD without having to read along in the book. (I wanted to learn bird songs during my commuting time, which precludes reading along.) Also, even when using the book, I had a great deal of trouble telling when one track had ended and another had begun, so I was usually lost and confused. This is not the right CD for me.
Wow - my ears are opened! November 2, 2005
33 out of 33 found this review helpful
I just got a book out of the library. The author is a nut about recording songs and analyzing the sonograms (frequency intensity over time), and in his mind, when he hears a song, he identifies it by how it "looks" in his mental sonogram.
This whole idea is amazing, and I think I'll never listen to birds the same way again - just after reading the first few pages!
The writing style pulls you into the author's world as he tracks birds and ponders the meaning of their song. If you love birding, you will wish you had been there on every walk, and you'll want to wake up two hours before dawn the next day to discover the amazingly different pre-dawn songs of common birds.
The book comes with as CD with 98 tracks of songs, and some of the tracks are slowed down, which really changes your perception and shows you the depth and richness of some of those "blurt" sounds birds make. The Woodthrush at 1/10 speed reminds me of a howling wolf. I know I'll never listed to this song the same way again!
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