The Stokes Field Guide to Bird Songs: Western Region offers you the very best sound recordings available for the birds of western North America. It includes more species, more time per species, and more sounds per species than any other audio guide to Western bird songs. In addition, the recordings are accompanied by an informative pdf booklet that gives precise call and song descriptions of the 551 species included. This is a marvelous companion to the book The Stokes Field Guide to the Birds of North America and the audiobook The Stokes Field Guide to Bird Songs: Eastern Region. Donald and Lillian Stokes are widely recongized as America’s foremost authorities on birds and nature. Their newest book, The Stokes Field Guide to the Birds of North America is the most comprehensive photographic field guide to birds ever published. They have written more than thirty other books, which have cumulatively sold more than 4.5 million copies, including the bestselling Stokes Field Guide to Birds (Eastern and Western editions), the Stokes Beginner’s Guide to Birds, the Stokes Nature Guides, and the Stokes Backyard Nature Books. They have hosted a popular public television series, Stokes Birds at Home, and offer current birding information on their Stokes Birding Blog, which features Lillian Stokes’s stunning photography. “The Stokeses are birding’s first family.” -Birding Business This is the ultimate audio field guide for today’s birder- the most comprehensive, clearest, most useful audio identification guide to the birds of the Western region ever produced. Now updated for modern convenience in the field !As a special bonus, one MP3 CD is included, containing all the bird sound files with voice narration removed for use on your MP3 device.
Great resource any birder should have I use Stokes all the time it’s a go to for reviewing species before I start my field season. I also bought several of the Peterson audio guides as I also use them a lot. But there are many calls that no one has published so to fill in the gaps I go to Cornell for some things and […] as a supplement for other calls/song as it’s free and you can post your own recordings to help others. I find there is still a large gap in available western bird sounds and none of those available give the…
Good product for my purposes The 4 CD product arrived as described without error. It is true the pdf requires printing out all 36 pages if you want a hard copy of the guide, and because it’s in pdf form I was unable to edit (change margins, font size, etc.) before printing. Several of the tracks have two rather than one species–the guide states “Because compact discs are currently limited to 99 tracks, some species have been paired and given a single track . . . “I downloaded the mp3 into iTunes and am…
Could have been great. however, fell short! This would be an excellent product worthy of 5 stars except for one major flaw. Disc 2 is a copy of disc 1. I thought maybe this was a mistake, so I ordered a replacement. Sure enough, disc 2 was still just a copy of disc 1. It is my hope that this gets figured out because I would love to own this collection but chances are that I will never order again to test this problem. It is really quite a shame that so much effort went into the making of this product but then have such large failures…