Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!rutgers!sunybcs!dmark
From: dmark@sunybcs.UUCP (David Mark)
Newsgroups: rec.birds
Subject: Re: Field guide to bird songs wanted
Message-ID: <11930@sunybcs.UUCP>
Date: 13 Jun 88 22:01:57 GMT
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Reply-To: dmark@sunybcs.UUCP (David Mark)
Organization: SUNY/Buffalo Geography
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In article <8140005@hpfcdc.HP.COM> jim@hpfcdc.HP.COM (Jim Tear) writes:
>Is there a good field guide to bird songs and calls that gives useful
>mnemonics for every species like "potato chip", "who cooks for you",
>"drink your tea"?  If there isn't such a book or recording, could we
>make one right here?
>

I know of no compact listing of the mnemonics for bird songs, nor any
record giving those.  Most are listed in the Peterson guides.  Of course
there are recordings of bird songs available on tape or in other forms,
from Cornell or other places.

The best source for bird-song learning, other than from tapes, is, in my
opinion, the sonograms in the Golden fieldguide.  If you look at the
sonograms for species whose songs you know, then you may be able to
learn to interpret other sonograms (I was able to).

And while we are on the general subject, I would like to find/get/produce
a guide to European bird songs which mapped them onto North American
bird songs.  Example, if you hear "House Finch" in Europe, it is probably
a Chaffinch.

dmark@joey.cs.buffalo.edu