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The Sound Approach to Birding (2006)

By Mark Constantine and The Sound Approach

No matter what your level of knowledge, with The Sound Approach to Birding, you will enhance your field skills and improve your standards of identification whilst listening to over 200 high quality sound recordings.

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The award winning, critically acclaimed first title from the Sound Approach team has been transformed into a smart interactive eBook. Optimised for iPad, this enhanced digital edition takes you on a birding journey to understanding bird sound with over 200 high-quality, mostly European bird sounds easily enjoyed with the simple tap of the screen.

The NEW eSonagram technology allows you to visualise sounds as well as hear them at the same time, making it easy to compare. Turning a world of birdwatchers into bird listeners, The Sound Approach to birding guides both beginners and advanced alike through tone, pitch, rhythm and acoustics, as well as how to use sounds to age and sex birds. For the more experienced we expertly demonstrate how bird sounds are often the first indication of previously unrecognized new species. Experience The Sound Approach to birding in its stunning new format as it flows elegantly through anecdotes, scientific theory and practical field experience. The Sound Approach team has hit the nail on the head with their new eBook; it’s so good you won’t want to stop listening. 

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Catching the Bug (2012)

By Mark Constantine, Nick Hopper and the Sound Approach Team

A précis of the concerns, puzzles and conundrums set by the natural world to a group of obsessive birders who have been meeting in a pub in Poole over 20 years.

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With their NEW eSonagram technology the Sound Approach invites you to explore how tens of thousands of birds secretly migrate through the area while you listen and learn the flight calls of these migrant songbirds from original digital recordings, all with a simple tap of the screen.

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Petrels: night and day (2008)

By Killian Mullarney, Magnus Robb and the Sound Approach. 

After the huge success of our first title The Sound Approach to Birding, we’re delighted to present to you the next exciting title in the series highlighting the adventures of Magnus Robb, sound recordist and composer, with the Collins Bird Guide illustrator Killian Mullarney.

This is a comprehensive exploration of the petrels of Europe and North Africa.

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You can listen to previously unpublished digital stereo recordings of 23 species of petrels nesting on islets, islands and coasts of the North Atlantic and the Mediterranean.

You will learn how to separate them by ear, with the help of clearly annotated sonagrams. You can read the author’s tales of making the recordings, and learn where to go to experience the birds.

There is a series of full-colour plates and photographs for birdwatchers and especially seawatchers. Many of the photographs were taken at the same time as the recordings. Most importantly, read how the latest research is leading to the recognition of new – European – species, some of which are exceedingly rare.

With 130 recordings, the sounds of Petrels: night and day ‘illustrate’ the text in addition to excellent quality photographs and illustrations by Killian Mullarney that appear throughout.

Written and illustrated by enthusiasts so be warned: this book could be the start of a serious obsession.

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