819 Species
19:20 Hours running time
2817 Recordings

Never before the bird voices of Europe, North Africa and the Middle East were presented in such quality and completeness. Species are listed systematically according to taxonomical standards and can thus be easily compared. As a novelty and practical advantage, songs and calls of one species are arranged consecutively however on separate tracks, so that they can be chosen independently. The PDF-booklets provides English, French and German explanations about the sound recordings. Using a PC or MP3-player, these informations turn up on the screen while playing.

Order-No. : ISBN 978-3-938147-01-6
Price: EUR 69,95
www.birdsongs.de

Review:
"My copy of '..Bird Songs..' arived promptly from Ample. I have spent some time with the discs and found them to be well presented and easy to use. The indexes are in print in the package and in Acrobat format on the discs. The indexes are listed both alphabetically and taxonomically on the discs and alphabetically in the book. The call and song files (MP3's) are sorted into folders according to taxonomic classification which makes them easier to locate when searching for a particular species.
"The recordings I sampled are clear and crisp but not artifictially cleaned. While not many of us have MP3 CD players in the car these discs can be used with most home DVD players and the recordings can be copied to portable MP3 players to be played through headphones or a stereo.
"The only negative I found was that there is no commentary on the recordings. Why is this a negative? If I was to listen to the recordings as a means of learning the calls and songs I would need the book to follow along. I could not do this while walking or driving! I guess the bird names three languages and latin would be too cumbersome to be useful to most.
"In all the discs are well worthwhile."

Elliott Kennerson has released his film of Snowy Owls on the web. He is a natural-history filmmaking student in Montana. He has made a short film (12 mins) about snowy owls that is free to view online for anybody. Denver Holt, one of Montana’s foremost owl researchers, appears in the film.

View the film at www.explorebiodiversity.com
(We hope to review the film soon)

See our review here...

BirdCinema Launched

From Bird Cinema:

"We have just finished a site that you and your members might be interested in. Birdcinema.com is a place for people to post many different types of bird videos.
Our goal with this site is to provide a community of people who love birds, domestic and wild. We hope both amateurs and professionals will come to the site and share their bird videos and a little about the bird, the video, or whatever else they feel is relevant. With the help of professionals such as yourself we will be able to make this site educational and informative.
Submission of videos is simple: upload the videos just as you would upload a YouTube video. We are looking forward to seeing some of your member's videos on birdcinema.com."

Go there: www.birdcinema.com

The London Ornithology Conference

Avian Science is planning a conference for the City of London. We want your help though in programming the event. Follow the links to the conference home page for more information

Natural nesting box designs

Vasile Bud has produced a range of nesting cavities for smaller birds. Termed as 'nesting shelters for insectivorous birds' they are formed from cut lengths of tree trunk.