Autistic son has learned all 450 bird songs

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	• Bird Songs: 250 North American Birds in Song Les Beletsky Chronicle Books, 2006 - 368 pages average customer review:based on 165 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Wonderful Book

I bought this book for my 87 year old mother who has mid-stage Alzheimer's disease. She absolutely loves it. With some practice she has been able to find birds she recognizes and to play the recordings of their actual songs, which she often also recognizes. She even reads about the birds on her own, which she enjoys even though she doesn't remember what she read for very long. The book is also something that is enjoyable to look at and listen to together with others. I don't want to give the impression that this is a book of interest only to the elderly or young people with little sophistication. It is a seriously researched book that is well written, beautifully illustrated, and uses actual recordings of the bird songs. To play the song of a certain bird readers simply uses arrow keys on an audio player on the inside back cover to scroll up or down until they come to the page number corresponding to the bird they want to hear. Serious bird lovers and bird lovers will find it helpful and interesting. But it has the unique capacity to capture the attention of older people as well and would be a good purchase by their family members or by senior centers. We have also purchased the other book which covers birds of the world outside North America.

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5 stars for kids.... 3 stars for adults

First let me say my children (3,5 & 11) LOVE this book!
The 3yr will mimick sounds for 30+ minutes at time. The 5yr has increased her math skills tremendously by just clicking up and down the range of audio numbers and can now easily count to 250!

The audio is excellent - and our ears are definitely more in tune to hearing birds around us now. At breakfast the kids are yelling out that a cardinal, robin and blue jay are somewhere in the trees outside.

Adults will be frustrated though - you cannot just key in the audio # you want to hear. You continually have to scroll up and down the 250 audio clips. The index is only written for the page # of each bird (not the audio #) - AND only one specific name is listed for each. (someone here already mentioned the Chickadee will only be found under "Black Capped Chickadee") - So I had to take the entire list and create an index by audio # for the kids and using multiple names where necessary. We just taped it into the front cover. It would have been better if the first bird appeared on page 15 - to have that bird be audio #15 as well - instead of audio #8 can be found on page 14. Just a bit frustrating.

All in all I am very glad we have this book for our kids though!

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Love this book

My husband and I bought this book about a month ago and have really enjoyed it. So far, the book has had pictures and recordings of all of the birds we've wanted to look up. I love the fact that you can match a bird to its call, particularly since we are really amateur birders. This book was tough to find in stores and I ordered it for Christmas in 2006, but it was backordered so much that it never arrived. My guess is that a lot of people like this concept as much as we did. The only drawback is that its a little big to take on a birding walk or a trip. Worth the money.

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Fun for all ages

I bought this for my two year old because she loves song birds. Because you must advance in number forward or backward in order to hear a song (they go up into the hundreds), we do need to sit with her to match the correct song to the correct bird, so this is not a "read alone" book. We don't see this as a hindrance; it's great for us, as we learn along with her. The illustrations are lovely, and the songs clear. They list by bird whether the song is male, female, or immature. Lots of fun and highly recommended!

Autistic son has learned all 450 bird songs

My 7 year old son has both the 200 bird and 250 bird songs books and in 3 months has memorized all 450 of the bird songs. He can identify each bird by name and number just by hearing the bird song. Wow, what a great gift!

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