Adrian Thomas

RSPB Guide to Birdsong (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

An RSPB audio and book guide to the birdsong of Britain's best known bird species.

Birdsong is the natural soundtrack to our lives and can evoke a powerful sense of time, place and season. Often profoundly beautiful, it is also the most effective way to discover many birds, and birds' songs and calls reveal much about their lives and behaviour. But identifying which bird is making which sound can seem challenging.

With this groundbreaking and easy-to-use RSPB guide, Adrian Thomas helps you learn and identify bird sounds step by step and at your own pace. Whether you are an experienced birdwatcher or just enjoy hearing the birds in your garden, this new guide will open your ears like never before to the amazing songs and calls around you.

Together the book and CD combine to create an RSPB-endorsed sound guide to more than 100 songs and calls of 65 garden, woodland and farmland birds, and a reference section describes in detail the sounds of a further 185 birds of Britain and north-west Europe. The 68-minute narrated recording can also be downloaded to listen to on the go, and is accompanied by beautiful colour photographs, annotated sonograms and 'test yourself' sections.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. April 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781472955883
• Artikelnr.: 56126125

Autorenporträt

Adrian Thomas has had a lifelong fascination with nature and its conservation. He has worked for over eight years for the RSPB, where his job in the South-east region is to communicate the charity's vision through the media and interpret wildlife for visitors to RSPB reserves. His passion for gardening was kindled a decade ago when he got a plot he could call his own for the first time. He has been using this garden as a test bed for his ideas ever since. Adrian has won the Garden Media Guild New Talent Award.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1: An Introduction to Bird Songs and Calls Introduction How to use
this guide What is sound? How do birds make noises? Types of bird sound How
to describe bird sounds Reading sonograms What sounds to expect: Where and
when? What to expect: Habitats Putting it all together Turning it into
learning Part 2: Guide to Common Bird Songs and Calls Towns and villages
Woods and copses Upland woodland Farmland Reedbeds and marshes Part 3:
Reference Guide How to Record Bird Sounds Glossary References
Acknowledgements Sound Credits Photo Credits Track List Index