UK Birdsong tapes (1 Viewer)

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pandachris

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• Oct 31, 2006

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A US citizen planning a trip to the UK posted a request on tripadvisor for places that might sell tapes of UK Birdsong in London. A reply was posted recommending Amazon but the response was :

"Thanks, but I was thinking more of a place to buy while in London rather than online. Surely there are some unique old shops that would carry stuff like this, especially audio tapes."

Anyone got any ideas/know of any suitable shops?

 

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pandachris

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• Nov 8, 2006

• #2

I'll bump this up just in case any London experts missed it first time round. I've certainly not come up with any ideas yet.

 

PaulS

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• Nov 8, 2006

• #3

How about the London Wetlands Centre, I know the WWT at Slimbridge has all sorts of bits and pieces, books etc in their shop.

Paul.

 

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level seven

Registered user

• Nov 8, 2006

• #4

PaulS said:

How about the London Wetlands Centre, I know the WWT at Slimbridge has all sorts of bits and pieces, books etc in their shop.

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Along similar lines I was going to suggest the Rainham Marshes RSPB reserve on the upper Thames estuary, not far from central London I'd guess. They have a shop and other RSPB shops I've been to have had bird song tapes and CDs (more often CDs these days of course). Looks a good spot for birding anyway near London.

 

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Merman

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• Nov 8, 2006

• #5

have you tried waterstones?

I bought a bird songs book called 'collins guide to bird songs and calls' there. It has a cd in it and the book describes the habitat etc where to find the birds. It was in the nature section amongst the other bird books.

 

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JeremyinFrance

New member

• Nov 8, 2006

• #6

Identilocator

I have a question in the same field. I wonder how long it will be until speech recognition technology and GPS technology marry and form a bird identilocator, telling you what bird is how far away and in which direction. Someone is going to make a lot of money from that - and if anyone is inspired, I hope they remember to buy me a drink with their millions.
Jeremy

 

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pandachris

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• Nov 14, 2006

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I've been away from the site for a few days - thanks to everyone who has replied - I'll pass the suggestions on.

Jeremy - I'm not really keen on gadgets, but I might well be in the market for the international version of the Identilocator. Will it come with option x-ray specs for seeing through bushes?