Description
Author: Donald Kroodsma
Target: All-Family
Format: Cloth Text
Pages: 192
Dimensions: 7.25″ x 8.25″
From renowned, award-winning Ornithologist and Author, Donald Kroodsma, BACKYARD BIRDSONGS were introduced in 2008 selling more than 300,000 units, still the only electronic print/audio field guides in the market.
Overview
Back by popular demand with more than 300,000 copies sold, the CLPG is proud to re-release the widely acclaimed and bestselling bird audio field guide series, Backyard Birdsongs, from award-winning Ornithologist and Author, Donald Kroodsma.
Backyard Birdsongs is an interactive handbook of birds and their songs for beginning bird-watchers. With a touch-button electronic module housing common vocalizations of 75 species from across Eastern and Central North America, this volume offers a truly sensory way to identify and get to know local birds. Crisply detailed and scientifically accurate illustrations accompany each entry, and up-to-date range maps provide clear geographical reference points. Complete with an introduction to birdsongs that will inspire readers to look out their kitchen windows and venture out in the field, this unique book provides an exciting entryway into the subtle art of birding.
Author Information
Donald Kroodsma is professor emeritus of ornithology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and a world-renowned authority on birdsongs. He is the author of The Singing Life of Birds (winner of the 2006 John Burroughs Medal Award and the American Birding Association’s Robert Ridgway Distinguished Service Award for excellence in publications pertaining to field ornithology), The Backyard Birdsong Guides, and Birdsong by the Seasons.
Donald’s work on bird song is legendary. In 2003 the American Ornithologists’ Union called him the “reigning authority on the biology of avian vocal behavior.” Kroodsma received his Ph.D. at Oregon State University and has traveled all over North and South America researching bird song. He is a Visiting Fellow of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, American Ornithologists’ Union, and the Animal Behavior Society and has published hundreds of academic and popular articles. He lives in Hatfield, MA.
