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mooskibaby

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Hello,

I'm not entirely sure where this thread should go. I'm looking to purchase a good CD on bird calls of Britain and Europe, are there any good ones which anyone would recommend as a good buy?

Thankyou.

Anna
 
Hi Anna,
Depends on what you are wanting announced or unannounced tracks
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If announced then IMHO the best around is 'Collins Field Guide Bird Songs and Calls', by Geoff Sample. ISBN 0-00-220037-6. Book and 2 CDs of song, all tracks announced and also other birds in the tracks are sometime id'ed as well.

For unannounced tracks, look out for the 4 cd set by Jean C Roche ' Bird songs and Calls of Britain and Europe', 99 tracks on each cd but no id given. You have to have the cd listing to id the bird. The complete set is ISBN 1-898665-54-0 or each CD ISBN is 1-898665-44-3, 1-898665-34-6, 1-898665-24-9 and finally 1-898665-14-1. These can sometimes be found very cheaply, as little as £5-£10 per cd.
 
iDentify European Birds?

Wildsounds lists this product by Dave Gosney.

iDentify European Birds


Is there anyone who has experience with it? How does it compare to the CD sets by Roché or Schulze?


Can this be used like the Birdjam products in North America? That is quick search of individual bird voices etc.
 
I have the Roche set on my mobile phone, all 396 tracks fit on a 256Mb card when ripped at 128bps. The track listings are on CDDB so you don't even have type them in, someone else has done it.
Have posted in your other thread about iDentify birds, Robert, however I'd sooner have the Roche set than the chance of some at best merely adequate pictures. Assuming you take a field guide out with you then the pics in iDentify are not worth having, also if you have the Roche set then it will take you less than 30 minutes to rip them ready for your mp3 player.
 
Keith Dickinson said:
I have the Roche set on my mobile phone, all 396 tracks fit on a 256Mb card when ripped at 128bps. The track listings are on CDDB so you don't even have type them in, someone else has done it.
Have posted in your other thread about iDentify birds, Robert, however I'd sooner have the Roche set than the chance of some at best merely adequate pictures. Assuming you take a field guide out with you then the pics in iDentify are not worth having, also if you have the Roche set then it will take you less than 30 minutes to rip them ready for your mp3 player.
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Thanks Keith, very helpful info! Sorry for double posting, but I only discovered the more specific other subforum later on.
 
EricHitchmo said:
Can anyone comment on this one by Andreas Schulze (Author), Karl-Heinz Dingler (Author)

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/3938147016/ref=ord_cart_shr?_encoding=UTF8&m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE
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Eric,

This is the mp3 version of a 17CD set produced by the same authors a few years earlier. All the species are now as mp3 files on 2 discs. This is currently the most extensive collection of bird sounds from the Western Palearctic. The major downside is that there is no recording data for the recordings (this is in part because a major part of it are recordings by Roche that have previously been used on his 4 and 10 CD European sets).
You can download a pdf of the booklet from here: http://www.birdsongs.de/birdsongs.pdf

You may also want to check out the review of the 17CD version by Magnus Robb in Dutch Birding.

FYI if you ever want to find recordings of specific species (either on published media or online) download one of my avian discographies from http://www.aviandiscography.webs.com

Shaun Peters
 
I purchased one of the Roche bird call CDs to see what it was like, and I was rather impressed so I think I'll buy the remaining 3. Thank you everyone for your advice.
 
Bubbs said:
Or here.... www.xeno-canto.org
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Though that has a very complicated set-up of species. I first searched for Europe, and it looked like there was not even a European Greenfinch there. But a more specific search then turned out there are many recordings. But which ones to download for a general learning set? And all the voices need to be downloaded individually. A rather tedious procedure I would assume. Certainly a fine source as long as one is only looking for a very few species/voices. But not for a complete set of even just the more common species of an area like Europe.
 
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