Sound Guides Britain
Birds

Bad Birdwatcher's Companion (Spoken Word)
Simon Barnes
Spoken Word version of Bad Birdwatcher's Companion read by Simon Barnes himself and featuring distinguishing bird song of each species. Now also available on a disposable/re-useable MP3 player (batteries included). 4+ hours! More details...


Bird Songs & Calls
Geoff Sample
A beautifully presented box set edition of three CDs (210 minutes) and a colour guide on how to identify and listen to common bird songs in Britain and Ireland. 232 pages. More details...

Birds Songs & Calls of Britain & Northern Europe
Geoff Sample
Collins Field Guide. Covers 152 species, each indexed and announced, usually beforehand. Over 2 hours of digitally recorded sound with a companion book. 146 min. More details...

Bird Songs and Calls of Britain and Europe on 4 CDs
J C Roché et al
Songs and calls of 403 species in systematic order. Species are indexed by track number or time and not announced. Each CD case has a handy guide on the back for quick and easy reference. Available as a boxed set. 5 hours.

Vol 1: Divers to raptors
J C Roché et al
Divers, grebes, petrels to herons to geese, ducks, raptors (101 species). 74 min. More details...

Vol 2: Gamebirds to sandgrouse
J C Roché et al
Gamebirds, rails to bustards, waders to gulls, terns, pigeons, sandgrouse (100 species). 77 min. More details...

Vol 3: Cuckoos to hippolais warblers
J C Roché et al
Cuckoos, owls, nightjars to woodpeckers, larks to pipits to chats to hippolais warblers (102 species). 74 min. More details...

Vol 4: Sylvia warblers to buntings
J C Roché et al
Sylvia warblers to flycatchers to tits to shrikes, crows, sparrows, finches to buntings (100 species). 74 min. More details...

British Bird Sounds on CD
British Library Sound Archive
Bestselling 2 CD set featuring the characteristic songs and calls of 175 species of the most frequently found British birds, each indexed by track number and announced in English. 152 min. More details...

Coastal Birds
Published by British Library
Audio Guide to bird sounds of the British coastline. 50 species. 47 min. More details...

Countryside Birds
Published by British Library
Popular audio guide to 65 of our best known countryside birds. 71 min. More details...

Garden Bird Sounds
Geoff Sample
Songs and calls of 70 of our most familiar British garden birds. Each species is announced beforehand by English common name. The CD version is indexed by track number. 58 min. More details...

iDentify British Birds
Dave Gosney
Song, calls and on capable players, field guide illustrations and commentaries for the iPOD and other mp3 or mp4 players. 250 species covered. More details...

Petrels Night and Day
Magnus Robb & Killian Mullarney
A Sound Approach guide to 23 forms of Western Palearctic petrel, with colour photos & illustrations, sonograms and 127 sound recordings. More details...

The Sound Approach to birding
Mark Constantine
A revolutionary new approach! Learn the facts of bird sound while listening to over 200 beautiful exclusive stereo recordings from all over the world. 192 pages. More details...
Teach Yourself Bird Sounds
Eds. Dominic Couzens & John Wyatt
This habitat based series covers common songs and calls of the species concerned. A detailed spoken commentary stresses what aspects of each sound make it individually identifiable, e.g. for Blackbird "There are usually good pauses between phrases with little obvious repetition. One of its well known calls is this panicky alarm rattle." Direct comparisons are regularly made between similar sounding species, whether insect, bird or mammal. Only on cassette.

1: Garden Birds
Published by Waxwing Consultants
21 species plus 5 comparison species. 48 min. More details...

2: Broad-leaved Woodlands
Published by Waxwing Consultants
24 species plus 10 comparison species. 52 min. More details...

3: Farmland and Scrub
Published by Waxwing Consultants
20 species plus 6 comparison species. 48 min. More details...

4: Reedbeds and Open Water
Published by Waxwing Consultants
22 species plus 2 comparison species. 51 min. More details...

5: Rivers and Wet Meadows
Published by Waxwing Consultants
26 species plus 8 comparison species. 56 min. More details...

6: Heaths and Moors
Published by Waxwing Consultants
25 species plus 12 comparison species. 72 min. More details...

7: Sea Cliffs and Islands
Published by Waxwing Consultants
29 species plus 10 comparison species. 63 min. More details...

8: Coniferous and Mixed Woods
Published by Waxwing Consultants
25 species plus 21 comparison species. 75 min. More details...

9: Estuaries and Coasts
Published by Waxwing Consultants
28 species plus 28 comparison species. 75 min. More details...

10: Mountains and Upland Lochs
Published by Waxwing Consultants
21 species plus 34 comparison species. 75 min. More details...

Guide to British Water Birds
Brett Westwood & Stephen Moss
Packed with useful information and helpful tips, this CD will appeal to both the complete novice and the experienced birdwatcher who simply wants to know more about water birds. 75 min. More details...

Guide to British Woodland Birds
Brett Westwood & Stephen Moss
First aired on BBC Radio 4 from 25 May 2008 - this is a series of 5 radio programs offering a fascinating guide to the songs of our most popular woodland birds. 75 min. More details...
Insects

A Sound Guide to the Grasshoppers and Crickets of Western Europe
D R Ragge & W J Reynolds
170 species. Includes the sounds of cicadas, toads and birds which could be confused with the sounds of grasshoppers or crickets. 120 min. More details...
Wildlife

British Mammals
Published by British Library
An audio introduction to the mammals of Britain. More details...

Vanishing Wildlife
Richard Ranft
A Sound Guide to Britain's Endangered Species. 31 tracks of our scarcer species including Otter, Pine Marten, Mole Cricket and Wart-biter Cricket, as well as a number of bird species. More details...
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