Part 1: An Introduction to Bird Songs and Calls
Introduction
How to use this guide
What is sound?
How do birds make noises?
Types of bird sound
How to describe bird sounds
Reading sonograms
What sounds to expect: Where and when?
What to expect: Habitats
Putting it all together
Turning it into learning

Part 2: Guide to Common Bird Songs and Calls
Towns and villages
Woods and copses
Upland woodland
Farmland
Reedbeds and marshes

Part 3: Reference Guide
How to Record Bird Sounds
Glossary
References

Acknowledgements
Sound Credits
Photo Credits
Track List
Index

An RSPB audio and book guide to the birdsong of Britain's best known bird species.
Birdsong is the natural soundtrack to our lives and can evoke a powerful sense of time, place and season. Often profoundly beautiful, it is also the most effective way to discover many birds, and birds' songs and calls reveal much about their lives and behaviour. But identifying which bird is making which sound can seem challenging.
With this groundbreaking and easy-to-use RSPB guide, Adrian Thomas helps you learn and identify bird sounds step by step and at your own pace. Whether you are an experienced birdwatcher or just enjoy hearing the birds in your garden, this new guide will open your ears like never before to the amazing songs and calls around you.
Together the book and CD combine to create an RSPB-endorsed sound guide to more than 100 songs and calls of 65 garden, woodland and farmland birds, and a reference section describes in detail the sounds of a further 185 birds of Britain and north-west Europe. The 68-minute narrated recording can also be downloaded to listen to on the go, and is accompanied by beautiful colour photographs, annotated sonograms and 'test yourself' sections.