Stokes Field Guide to Bird Songs: Western Region

By: Lillian Q. Stokes, Donald Stokes, Lang Elliot

Narrated by: Lang Elliot

The Stokes Field Guide to Bird Songs: Western Region offers you the very best sound recordings available for the birds of western North America.

It includes more species, more time per species, and more sounds per species than any other audio guide to Western bird songs.



In addition, the recordings are accompanied by an informative pdf booklet that gives precise call and song descriptions of the 551 species included.

This is a marvelous companion to the book The Stokes Field Guide to the Birds of North America and the audiobook The Stokes Field Guide to Bird Songs: Eastern Region.



Donald and Lillian Stokes are widely recongized as America's foremost authorities on birds and nature. Their newest book, The Stokes Field Guide to the Birds of North America is the most comprehensive photographic field guide to birds ever published. They have written more than thirty other books, which have cumulatively sold more than 4.5 million copies, including the bestselling Stokes Field Guide to Birds (Eastern and Western editions), the Stokes Beginner's Guide to Birds, the Stokes Nature Guides, and the Stokes Backyard Nature Books. They have hosted a popular public television series, Stokes Birds at Home, and offer current birding information on their Stokes Birding Blog, which features Lillian Stokes's stunning photography.



"The Stokeses are birding's first family." -Birding Business

This is the ultimate audio field guide for today's birder- the most comprehensive, clearest, most useful audio identification guide to the birds of the Western region ever produced.



Now updated for modern convenience in the field !As a special bonus, one MP3 CD is included, containing all the bird sound files with voice narration removed for use on your MP3 device.

Still needs updates

First off, these are great recordings. Unfortunately, the chapters are still labeled (in the chapter list) as "Chapter 1, Chapter 2, etc" instead of with the bird names. Highly impractical, and because of this it's waste of a credit/money. The full boxed set-- "Stokes Eastern and Western Birds"-- has the chapters labeled with bird names and accompanying PDF, both of which are greatly helpful. Since, at the moment, I'm only interested in western birds, I was hoping to cut through the tedious sorting through parts to get to what I wanted by buying this. As it stands, it's useless as a refreher/learning tool without proper chapter titles. I could go through and bookmark everything, but for $20 I shouldn't have to. I'm returning this if I can, but I'd be willing to buy again if the chapter titles are updated/fixed.

CHAPTER NAMES are essential sometimes!

Audible is great but *seriously*, for a paid service, we can’t have chapter names? Have really wished for them before, but for a reference book with THREE HUNDRED SIXTY-ONE chapters, it’s just crucial. Additionally, I couldn’t find a chapter list anywhere online, so …. I just made it through all 361 chapters of these birdsong samples, making my own handwritten list. Otherwise, no idea how a person could jump to a specific bird’s song. Yep, if I want to hear the song of an Allen’s Hummingbird, I now know to go to chapter 185, about 32 seconds in. 21 pages in a spiral notebook. Otherwise, recordings are clear and seem to be nice lengths, it’s a great option for hearing bird songs, and if you make your own list, a really useful reference.

No index or chapter title

There are hundreds of recordings here, Andrew they each link to specific species. Without a title or indeed of which entry corresponds to which species, this is basically unusable.

Useless

I pretty much NEVER complain about anything and I don't think I have ever written a negative review. However, without the hardcopy book, this Audio book is completely useless. Rather than labeling the bird songs in the Table of Content, they are just labeled Chapter 1, Chapter 2, etc.... And there are hundreds of "Chapters". You can't find anything.... at all. This book cost $25. Put at least a little effort into it to make it useful.