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Rumi Birdsong: Fifty-Three Short Poems

5 reviews
Jelaluddin Rumi

Maypop Books, 1993

Solid Sufi (ecstatic religious) poetry
Birdsong contains 53 short poems that are reworkings of the translation by A. J. Arberry, a major scholar of Sufism. Not all of the poems have any direct relationship to birds, rather the birdsong of the title refers to a common metaphor in mystic traditions e.g. The Conference of the Birds, a major Sufi work. Barks, as usual, provides excellent translations; he truly makes the poetry of Rumi ...

The Backyard Birdsong Guide: Western North America (Backyard Birdsong Guide)

6 reviews
Donald Kroodsma

Chronicle Books, 2008

Fun
We gave this to our daughter for her 9th birthday and the whole family has enjoyed it (grownups, 9, 7, 4 and baby!) We've enjoyed listening to birds we don't normally hear and matching birds to the sounds we hear all the time.

Birdsong: A Novel of Love and War

185 reviews
Sebastian Faulks

Vintage, 1997

transforms "war" from a short word to a thousand pictures
Faulks masterfully brings you onto the battlefield of World War I through the eyes of a main character who has formal ties but no personal loyalties. An Englishman named Stephen Wraysford, he is orphaned as a child and financially sponsored into adulthood. You meet him as a young man who has, through no fault of his own, grown up with no emotional attachments. He falls in love, but the woman ...

Birdsong: A Natural History

6 reviews
Don Stap

Oxford University Press, USA, 2006

Travels With Birders
In his excellent earlier book, Parrot Without a Name, Don Stap traveled with John O'Neill and Ted Parker to Peru to find rare birds. In his new book, Birdsong, he travels with two experts of avian bioacoustics, Don Kroodsma and Greg Budney to hear rare birds. This is a book about bird song (how and why birds sing), however, I also found his portrayal of the two individual scientists ...

Sebastian Faulks's Birdsong: A Reader's Guide (Continuum Contemporaries)
Pat Wheeler

Continuum International Publishing Group, 2002

This is part of a new series of guides to contemporary novels. The aim of the series is to give readers accessible and informative introductions to some of the most popular, most acclaimed and most influential novels of recent years - from `The Remains of the Day' to `White Teeth'. A team of contemporary fiction scholars from both sides of the Atlantic has been assembled to provide a thorough and readable analysis of each of the novels in ...

Birdsongs of the Pacific Northwest

1 review
Stephen R. Whitney

Mountaineers Books, 2006

A great resource
The information doesn't seem to mention that there is a CD of bird sounds. It's very cool! I used this book before a 7th grade field trip to a wildlife refuge. I put pictures of the birds (from the Internet) into a PowerPoint presentation and added the bird sounds from this disk. We listened to the sounds and made notes about what each bird looked like and sounded like. When we went to the ...

Frog and the Birdsong

1 review
Max Velthuijs

Farrar Straus & Giroux (J), 1991

Frog and The Birdsong
Frog and The Bird Song is an adorable tale for children about the about the transient yet beautiful nature of life. As my daughter comments "it makes me feel both happy and sad at the same time." From an adult perspective, I stand in awe at Max Velthuijs's ability to convey the most adult of concepts in such an innocent and simple way. Highly recommended!

The Backyard Birdsong Guide: Eastern and Central North America (Backyard Birdsong Guides)

More Birding By Ear Eastern and Central North America: A Guide to Bird-song Identification (Peterson Field ...

5 reviews
Richard K. Walton, Robert W. Lawson

Houghton Mifflin, 2002

VERY HELPFUL
MORE BIRDING BY EAR is the follow-up to BIRDING BY EAR. BIRDING BY EAR presented 85 species of birds. MORE BIRDING BY EAR presents 96 additional species. MORE BIRDING BY EAR follows the same format as BIRDING BY EAR. Species are grouped according to similar types of vocalizations. Primary songs and calls are presented. In some cases, other songs and calls are also presented. Vocalizations ...

Birdsongs

3 reviews
Betsy Franco

Margaret K. McElderry, 2007

Worth Singing About!
Franco and Jenkin's Birdsongs is one of those picture books you can return to again and again and find something new each time. It could be especially rich for use in an early childhood classroom where the graphics and text offer a wonderful exploration of patterns--there are the patterns and sounds of the differnt birds shown on each page, the pattern of the day from dawn to nightfall, and the ...

Why Birds Sing: A Journey Into the Mystery of Birdsong

9 reviews
David Rothenberg

Basic Books, 2006

This book was awesome!
I loved this book. D.R. treated his complex subject in a thorough manner and it was a pleasure to read. Sometimes I think that people like to simplify things so that they feel they have an answer but this fellow is okay with ambiguity and is humble enough to acknowledge that we know a lot less than we think we do about "Why Birds Sing". The breadth of sources he consults and clearly ...

Birdsong

2 reviews
Audrey Wood

Voyager Books, 2001

10
Not only is this book beautifully illustrated, it will also take your child on a journey through the seasons all in one day. They will be able to wake with the calls of crows and go to sleep to the hoots of an owl. I highly recommend this book to all young readers especially if they love birds and their birdsongs.

Neuroscience of Birdsong

Cambridge University Press, 2008

Speech has long been thought of as a uniquely defining characteristic of humans. Yet song birds, like humans, communicate using learned signals (song, speech) that are acquired from their parents by a process of vocal imitation. Both song and speech begin as amorphous vocalizations (subsong, babble) that are gradually transformed into an individualized version of the parent's speech, including dialects. With contributions from both the founding ...

Nature's Music: The Science of Birdsong

1 review
Peter R. Marler, Hans Slabbekoorn

Academic Press, 2004

Comprehensive Bird Song
This volume brings together the findings of the dramatic bird song research in the last 50 years. The research was launched by W. H. Thorpe in the 1950s, but it was his student Peter Marler who turned the agenda into an explosion of work and exciting findings. Marler and his students have energized not only biology, but psychology, linguistics, and evolutionary biology. Key results are ...

Birding by Ear: Western: A Guide to Bird-Song Identification

2 reviews
Richard K. Walton

Houghton Mifflin Company, 1990

Excellent for the beginner/intermediate birder
As someone who is interested in improving their birding skills, I found this an excellent guide. The authors begin by explaining some basic bird facts related to vocalizations. They proceed with the recordings, which are grouped into birds with similar songs (the authors refer to this as "pairing"). This improves the listners ability to correctly identify the song with the bird. The last ...

Without Birdsong the Universe Would Collapse

Lip Gravy Press, 2008

The huge shift in consciousness that humankind is going through can be seen as a series of smaller shifts. In Without Birdsong the Universe Would Collapse, White Feather takes us through one particular shift, revealing the anatomy of that shift and showing how to go with the flow of that shift. From one September to the next September, White Feather chronicles a year-long consciousness shift. Find out what it is like to fly off a motorcycle ...

The Singing Life of Birds: The Art and Science of Listening to Birdsong

20 reviews
Donald Kroodsma

Houghton Mifflin, 2007

"Not least,for just being there and singing,I thank the birds themselves."
With over 1,000 "Bird Books" in my collection;it takes something real special to excite me. This book is such a special book. There are many books,records,tapes CD's and DVD'd that do an excellent job of teaching and describing bird songs so that with some practice you can recognize a large number of birds in the field. Howerever,much more than showing a few ,typical songs of birds,so that ...

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