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Originally Posted by markandanne
My next goal is to get a good bird book; I have trouble identifying all of the birds here in CO since they are often different than the ones I grew up with back in NC, and I would like to have identified the many hawks that we saw on the fence posts in OK and TX. If anyone has suggestions (that would be accessible for the kids too), I'm open for ideas...
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We picked up a somewhat different kind of bird identification book at Costco last year. It's titled 'The Backyard Birdsong Guide'. What's clever about this guide is not only are there the usual illustrations, habitat maps, and descriptions of the birds (about 130) etc, but the bird's songs are contained in an audio player that's part of the hardcover book. So you can hear what each of the birds sounds like. The publisher apparently provides guides for different parts of the country, as the one we have is 'Eastern and Central North America'. At first I thought the idea of an audio guide was a bit of a gimmick, but the book/audio is nicely done.
Nick