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Peterson field guide to bird sounds of Eastern North America / Nathan Pieplow ; illustrations by Michael DiGiorgio.

by Pieplow, Nathan.

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017.

Birdsongs -- North America.

Birds -- North America.

Peterson field guide series.

Alternate title:

Field guide to bird sounds of Eastern North America

Bird sounds of Eastern North America

ix, 593 p. : ill. (some color), maps ; 21 cm.

"The Cornell Lab of Ornithology"--Page 4 of cover.

Includes index.

Sponsored by the National Wildlife Federation and the Roger Tory Peterson Institute.

A new approach to bird sounds -- How birds produce sound -- Visualizing sound -- The naming of bird sounds -- The biology of bird sounds -- Recording bird sounds and making spectrograms -- Birds by song : species accounts.

Presents a collection of visual spectograms of the songs and calls of 250 species of birds found in eastern and central North America. Includes only species in which songs and calls are of use in field identification.

DiGiorgio, Michael. illustrator.

Peterson, Roger Tory, 1908-1996.

National Audubon Society.

National Wildlife Association.

Cornell University. Laboratory of Ornithology.

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