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Author:

Pieplow, Nathan, author.

Title:

Peterson field guide to bird sounds of Eastern North America / Nathan Pieplow ; illustrations by Michael DiGiorgio.

Publisher:

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt,

Copyright Date:

2017

Description:

ix, 593 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 21 cm.

Subject:

Birdsongs--North America.
Birdsongs--North America--Identification.
Birdsongs--East (U.S.)--Identification.
Birdsongs--East (U.S.)
Birds--North America.
Birds--North America--Identification.
Birds--East (U.S.)
Birds--East (U.S.)--Identification.
Songbirds--North America.
Songbirds--East (U.S.)

Other Authors:

DiGiorgio, Michael. illustrator.
Peterson, Roger Tory, 1908-1996.
National Audubon Society.
National Wildlife Association.
Cornell University. Laboratory of Ornithology.

Notes:

"The Cornell Lab of Ornithology"--Page 4 of cover. Includes index. Sponsored by the National Wildlife Federation and the Roger Tory Peterson Institute.

Contents:

A new approach to bird sounds -- How birds produce sound -- Visualizing sound -- The naming of bird sounds -- The biology of bird sounds -- Recording bird sounds and making spectrograms -- Birds by song : speciaes accounts.

Summary:

Presents a collection of the songs and calls of 250 species of birds found in eastern and central North America. Includes only species in which songs and calls are of use in field identification.

Series:

Peterson field guides.

ISBN:

9780547905587
0547905580

Locations:

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

CAPH522 -- Iowa City Public Library (Iowa City)