The Sound Approach to Birding: A Guide to Understanding Bird Sound - Hardcover

Constantine, Mark; The Sound Approach

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9081093312 ISBN 13: 9789081093316

Publisher: The Sound Approach, 2006

Synopsis

Learn the facts of bird sound while listening to over 200
beautiful exclusive stereo recordings from all over the world. Combining
anecdote, scientific theory and practical field experience, The Sound
Approach to Birding is a step-by-step guide through tone, pitch, rhythm,
reading sonagrams, acoustics, and using sounds to age and sex birds. It
explains how bird sounds are often the first indication of previously
unrecognised taxonomic splits, and explains how to identify them.

With The Sound Approach, you can maximise the use of sound in enhancing
your field skills, and improve your standards of identification, whatever
the level of your experience.

About this title

Review

"Genuinely groundbreaking." -- Birdwatching Magazine, March 2007

"Like a new religion ... now that this book is here, never again
will it be acceptable to say 'I don't do calls'!"
-- Birding World, March 2007

"Revolutionising the use of sound in identifying birds." -- New Scientist, June 9, 2007

"The most important advance birding has seen in over a decade.
Best bird book 2006."
-- Sunday Express, December 2006

"The most original bird book I have read in the past decade." -- Birdwatch Magazine, April 2007

'Opens the ears to a whole new understanding of bird sounds.' -- BIRDING WORLD, November 2006

'The new benchmark for understanding bird sounds, regardless of
the ability of the listener.' -- BIRDWATCH, November 2006

'This book is an inspiration' -- surfbirds.com, September 2006

About the Author

Mark Constantine has been a keen birder since the 1970s, and is
the managing director of cosmetics retailer Lush. In 2000, he invited
fellow bird watchers Arnoud van den Berg and Magnus Robb to join him in
forming The Sound Approach, who have since amassed a collection of over
30,000 recordings of more than 100 bird species, with a particular focus on
the Western Paleartic Region. The Sound Approach aim to popularise and
raise standards in the use of sounds in bird identification, and also
receive major contributions from renownded birders, Dick Forsman and
Killian Mullarney.

Edition details

• Publisher: The Sound Approach
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9081093312
• ISBN 13: 9789081093316
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 192