British Bird Sounds on CD: The Definitive Audio Guide to Birds in Britain Audio CD – Audiobook, 1 Oct. 2017

You can't really get better for what it is - a bird song/call ID resource. Excellent quality recordings with clear announcements.Just to address the Windows Media issue - it's a simple and quick job to re-name the tracks - it's the same as re-naming any kind of file in windows. You can do it before you rip the CD or afterwards. When it's ripped it's on your hard drive and you can then organise the tracks in any way you like. I don't need all of the examples so I have a folder with just the tracks I need (you could have woodland birds in one set and wetland birds in another etc,) and then the tracks/folders can be copied to your phone, mp3 player, i-pod, etc to take with you on field trips - bird calls at your fingertips on site - can't be better than that can it?

Clear announcing of the species followed by good quality sounds. A great range of birds covered. Even a little book telling you what types of call you are hearing if there is more than one for the species. Good learning tool. Reasonably priced. Quick delivery.

This is the definitive CD of bird noises, and covers all 175 species encountered in the UK. The quality of the recordings is very good, as one would expect from a British Library badged product, and as an aid to aural identification this is a useful resource, with each species separated into discrete tracks. Each track is introduced verbally by a gentleman who sounds like he'd really rather have been doing something else than voice tagging bird noises, but his diction is crystal clear and accentless. It's a 2 CD set, with passerines on one CD, and non-passerines on the other.Not really one for the dinner party or the individual wanting to relax to the sound of birdsong, but peerless as a reference resource. I find I'm now wandering round my local area and managing to pick out individual species much more clearly.

This is very good, not only for learning bird sound but because it is also very relaxing. It would be nice if the person said what that sound could be likened to, i.e. how a great tit says teacher, that would help my memory. However, that is just me being picky.

Unlike as some reviews suggest, the Audible version includes individual chapters for each bird - see the attached photos.Simply click on the three “dash-dots” to the left of the bird name, and you can then see each chapter with the respective bird song.

Lovely CD. Clear and precise it is an education in itself. We have learned much from it. Please give it a try. You will not be disappointed.

I am a nature-lover but not a fanatical birder - plants are more my thing, as they keep still to be looked at... What I am trying to do is learn the sounds of the birds in my suburban garden so that I can tell a robin from a blackbird or a bluetit from a chaffinch without actually seeing them. For that purpose, these CDs contain too many birds I'm never likely to encounter (all those warblers and rare water birds), but I could not find one on offer that concentrated on common or garden birds. I would have liked longer excerpts for most of them - the nightingale clip (yeah OK I haven't got one in my garden but there are some up the road) doesn't begin to do justice to the variety of song they produce. One feature I would like but which it would have been unfair to expect here would be that the 'titles' would come in between two clips or afterwards, or it be possible to suppress them, because I would next like to be able to test my knowledge! Having said all that, for what it does, this CD does it well, and it's probably unfair of me to want it to do something else.

This is exactly what I expected from the reviews I read. We moved into the countryside and we have a lot of bird life in our garden and around us. I am now recognising lots of birds but was intrigued by the wonderful birdsongs I hear. So gradually I am trying to recognise their songs and calls by using the CD. Small point, but it would be great to have a picture of the individual birds in the booklet. It's also quite relaxing. The first time I listened, I was wading ('scuse the pun) my way through ironing & I found I had done it in no time!