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From: rsl@cbnewsm.att.com (randolph.little)
Newsgroups: rec.birds
Subject: Re: Peterson's A Field Guide to Bird Songs
Summary: Several CDs available; more to come soon.
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Date: 19 Jul 90 12:19:15 GMT
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Jim Lee inquired about "audible" field guides available in CD format.

The new third edition of Peterson's "Field Guide to Bird Songs of
Eastern North America" was just released on tape.  Also, a new
edition of the companion "Western" guide will be out next year.  In
both cases, a CD version is simultaneously being produced, along
with barcode labels that can be affixed within the printed guides
to work with a new Sony CD barcode reader accessory.  Since this is
the first time the CDs and barcode labels have been produced, and
since their production has to be contracted out, there will be a few
months of delay between availability of cassettes and CDs.

Globally there are already a few CDs available:  1) CMC ReSearch has
issued in the US a CD containing 98 species which are arranged as a
companion to the Audubon "Birds of North America" book; and 2) a
French outfit has produced "Amazonia - Voices of the Tropical Rain
Forest" which contains 40 species of birds from French Guiana as
well as other natural sounds.

Do other netnews readers know of any other CDs of bird sounds?

Randolph S. Little (randolph.little@att.com)