Identifying Migratory Birds by Sound (1 Viewer)

[Jim Martin]

Announcing the acquisition of this title by Stanislas Wroza. The nocmig bible! It publishes in English in July 2024.

 

[Stonefaction]

There's also "La Migration Nocturne Par Le Son" by Staislas Wroza and Julien Rochefort which probably duplicates a lot of the same calls but does seem to give a wider range of calls (2 or 3 rather than 1) for individual species than the larger book does though for fewer species (120 against 450) as well as going into more detail about equipment etc. Having bought the French language versions I've found them both very handy for quickly searching through the sonagrams trying to ID anything I've managed to record that I don't recognise. A combination of both books in one would be even better than just the above title on its own.

I'm still hoping for an English language version of "Tous Les Oiseaux Rares D'Europe" by Frederic Jiguet and Aurelien Audevard which focuses on just the rarities that might turn up in Europe (from Africa, North America and Asia), without all the birds that are in every other fieldguide of Birds of Europe (though you've said there's no plans for that one, so I'll just have to make do with using my schoolboy French best guesses at the captions on the photos - not that I ever find anything rare enough that I need the book to help ID/confirm it).

 

[Murray Lord]

Some more information on this title now available at Identifying Migratory Birds by Sound in Britain and Europe

 

[JFM1]

This is a straight translation of 2019 French version whitch I picked up in 2020, my french is near zero but it has been well used - as indicated by other - for quicker check rather than going to xeno-canto

 

[Stonefaction]

This is a straight translation of 2019 French version whitch I picked up in 2020, my french is near zero but it has been well used - as indicated by other - for quicker check rather than going to xeno-canto

There is a small difference at the end of the book, with a few pages of 'noc-mig' species calls where the French version has a couple of pages of photos of (usually) silent waterbirds (both land and sea).
EDIT: To try to see what exactly the pages of the French book said, I used a 'Translation' app on my phone which appeared to translate the entries in the book quite well (allowing for the vagaries of bird names). It took a second or two to show the page viewed with translations in place and I was able to save the translated page as a photo too.

 

[JFM1]

There is a small difference at the end of the book, with a few pages of 'noc-mig' species calls where the French version has a couple of pages of photos of (usually) silent waterbirds (both land and sea).
EDIT: To try to see what exactly the pages of the French book said, I used a 'Translation' app on my phone which appeared to translate the entries in the book quite well (allowing for the vagaries of bird names). It took a second or two to show the page viewed with translations in place and I was able to save the translated page as a photo too.

🙂. There are a few updated photos through the book also