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NEW Wild Cards: Backyard Birds
Everyone can learn about birds while playing brain stimulating games of Memory, Old Maid, and Go Fish with this card game and book set. Includes 36 playing cards and a 32 page bird fact book. Also available in "North American Birds" set.
Recommended for ages: 6+
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Cornell Lab Bird Q&A: Your Birding Questions Answered App
This new app from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology makes learning more about birds fun. Find the answers to questions you have about birds and learn more about bird identification. This app is based on real questions asked of the experts at the Cornell Lab. Compatible with iPhone 3Gs, iPod Touch (3rd & 4th generation), and iPad. Search "Cornell Lab" in iTunes store to download.
The Birds of North America Online
This is the most comprehensive reference available for all of North America’s 716 species of breeding birds, updated with the most current scientific information and brought to life with photos, sounds, and video. Image and video galleries show plumages, behaviors, habitat, nests and eggs, and more. This is a gift of knowledge for anyone who loves to learn more about birds. A 30-day subscription is just $5; $42 for a full year.
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NEW Bird Songs Bible
Edited by Les Beletsky
Chronicle Books
The Bird Songs Bible is unique reference featuring recorded sounds for each bird species that breeds in North America—nearly 750 in all. A push of a button on the built-in state-of-the-art digital audio player brings bird songs and calls to life. Every species account is accompanied by beautiful illustrations, range maps, and detailed information on distribution, habitat, behavior, and vocalizations. Recordings for the Bird Songs Bible come from the Cornell Lab’s Macaulay Library archive, the largest collection of bird and animal sounds in the world.
13 1/2 x 14 1/4 inches; 536 pp; 750 color illustrations, 750 maps, electronic sound module, carrying case (14 3/8 x 15 in). Hardcover.
ISBN 9780811871389
ISBN 10 081187138X
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Bird Songs: 250 North American Birds in Song
Edited by Les Beletsky
Chronicle Books
Bird Songs presents sounds, illustrations, and scientific information for some of the best-loved North American birds--including the mysterious Ivory-billed Woodpecker. Editor and biologist Les Beletsky provides a succinct description of each of the 250 birds profiled with an emphasis on their distinctive songs. The built-in digital audio device plays back songs and calls for all the species at the touch of a button. All recordings come from the Cornell Lab’s Macaulay Library archive.
8-3/8 x 10-3/4 in; 368 pp; 250 color images
Hardcover, push and listen
ISBN 1932855416
ISBN13 9781932855418
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Bird Songs From Around the World
By Les Beletsky
Chronicle Books
Discover 200 of the world's most spectacular birds in Bird Songs from Around the World. The sleek, built-in digital audio player showcases each bird's song and each account is accompanied by illustrations and descriptions of each vocalization. From the brilliantly plumed Lilac-breasted Roller in Africa to the flamboyant North American Roseate Spoonbill to Asia's Red Avadavat, Bird Songs from Around the World combines fascinating information, beautiful art, and high-quality sound from the Cornell Lab’s Macaulay Library archive.
8-3/8 x 10-3/4 in; 368 pp; 200 color images
Hardcover, push and listen
ISBN 1932855610
ISBN 13 9781932855616
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The Backyard Birdsong Guide: Eastern and Central North America
By Donald Kroodsma
Chronicle Books
Get to know birds by ear with this engaging book featuring 75 species from Eastern and Central North America. Enjoy their sounds at the touch of a button—reproduced in high quality on the built-in digital audio device—while reading vivid descriptions of their songs, calls, and related behaviors. Learn what Black-capped Chickadees are “thinking” as they give their namesake call and find out why many songbirds have distinct regional dialects. Complete with range maps and more than 130 authentic sounds from the Cornell Lab’s Macaulay Library archive with illustrations for each species.
Donald Kroodsma is currently a visiting fellow at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. He has studied birdsong for more than 40 years and lives in Amherst, Massachusetts.
5 x 8 in; 192 pp; 75 color illustrations
Hardcover, push and listen
ISBN 0811863425
ISBN 13 9780811863421
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The Backyard Birdsong Guide: Western North America
By Donald Kroodsma
Chronicle Books
Birds of western North America are featured in this edition of the popular sound-player books—recordings of 75 species are included in the attached digital audio device. The text provides vivid descriptions of bird songs, calls, and related behaviors. Learn how to pick out the wavering songs of a young Bewick's Wren, or find out why many songbirds have dialects that vary from region to region. Complete with up-to-date range maps and more than 130 sounds provided by the Cornell Lab's Macaulay Library, as well as illustrations of each species.
5 x 8 in; 192 pp; 75 color illustrations
Hardcover, push and listen
ISBN 0811863972
ISBN 13 9780811863971
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Birdscapes: A Pop-Up Celebration of Birdsongs in Stereo Sound
By Miyoko Chu; illustrations by Julia Hargreaves
Chronicle Books
Birdscapes delivers an immersive birding experience. For the eyes: seven elaborately engineered, full-color pop-ups portraying dozens of bird species in diverse North American habitats, from the Alaskan tundra to a southeastern swamp. For the ears: extended recordings of the birds' calls and songs in stereo from the collection of the Cornell Lab’s Macaulay Library. Scientifically accurate illustrations of the birds and poignant text about their fragile ecosystems make this beautifully crafted volume a visual and audio delight!
Miyoko Chu is director of communications at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and the author of Songbird Journeys: Four Seasons in the Lives of Migratory Birds.
10-3/4 x 12-3/4 in; 18 pp; 7 full-color pop-ups, stereo sound audio modules, AAA batteries included
Hardcover
ISBN 9780811864282
ISBN10 0811864286
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The Bird Watching Answer Book
by Laura Erickson
Storey Publishing
Drawing from the tens of thousands of inquiries that pour into the Cornell Lab each year, author and bird expert Laura Erickson has compiled answers to more than 200 common and not-so-common bird questions. This handy pocket-sized book reads like a conversation with your friendly neighborhood "bird lady" and contains down-to-earth answers to questions about watching and feeding birds, bird behavior, and bird biology. Readers will find plenty of quirky stories and interesting facts tucked into every corner.
ISBN 078 1 60342 452 3
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Online Bird Behavior Course
Cornell Lab of Ornithology and eCornell
In five weeks it’s possible to learn enough about bird behavior to forever change the way you look at these complex and beautiful creatures. Gain new insight and enjoyment through our online interactive course, “Courtship and Rivalry in Birds.” The goal of the course is to help you learn how to observe and interpret bird behavior and communication. A basic principle of bird behavior as it relates to survival and reproduction is explored each week using multimedia and interactive activities, guided by an instructor. The course is offered multiple times during the year. $295 ($255 for Cornell Lab members).
Online Bird Behavior Course
BirdsEye & BirdsEye Lite bird-finding apps
Bird-in-the-Hand LLC
It’s like having thousands of local birding experts at your command. The BirdsEye app for iPhone® and iPod touch® harnesses the power of current data from the Cornell Lab’s eBird program to help users find the birds they want to see—showing where specific species have been reported and providing a map to get there. The app includes images and audio for the 470 most frequently observed birds in North America. Additional content is available for more elusive birds—for a total of 847 species. (BirdsEye Lite features 135 species.) Bird sounds come from the Cornell Lab’s Macaulay Library archive, images from the VIREO collection at the Academy of Natural Sciences. Acclaimed birder and author Kenn Kaufman wrote each species account describing habitat where each species is likely to be found.
BirdsEye App
Birds & Beans organic & shade-grown coffee
Birds & Beans, LLC
The traditional method of growing coffee—beneath the canopy of a forest, rather than chopping down the trees for sun-grown coffees—provides vital habitat for birds. The Cornell Lab is pleased to partner with Birds & Beans®, a Massachusetts-based retailer that specializes in shade-grown coffee products certified “Bird Friendly®” by the Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center. This certification means that Birds & Beans coffee is 100%-organic and shade-grown. When you buy Birds & Beans Bird Friendly coffee you help preserve bird habitat. A portion of all online sales also helps support our bird research, education, and conservation programs.
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Really Wild Cards from Chatterbox Greetings
A woodpecker hammers, a loon wails, and the cardinal sweetly sings. Open a card from this series of collectible greetings and out pop cheeps, peeps, whistles, and croaks from a variety of beautiful birds. Authentic bird recordings come from the Cornell Lab’s Macaulay Library archive. Each card features an elegant painting selected from the Lab’s art collection and contains information about the species shown.
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Singing Audubon Birds
Wild Republic
The plush birds in this popular series make great collectibles for children and adults with new species introduced each year. Each bird contains authentic sounds from the Cornell Lab’s Macaulay Library and is created with colorful anatomical details. From the haunting wail of the Common Loon to the familiar call of the Black-capped Chickadee, these fuzzy friends make a bird in the hand informative and fun.
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