ADDITIONAL LISTENING AND READING SOURCES

THE BACKYARD BIRDSONG GUIDES WEB SITE

www.chroniclebooks.com/backyardbirdsongs. See “More Fun with Birdsong,” on page 178 for additional information.

CORNELL LAB OF ORNITHOLOGY’S ALL ABOUT BIRDS ONLINE

http://www.birds.cornell.edu/AllAboutBirds. An extensive, invaluable resource for almost everything you’d like to know about birds and birding.

THE SONGS OF WILD BIRDS by Lang Elliott

(Boston: Houghton-Mifflin Co., 2006.) In this book and others, Elliott beautifully combines sound, text, and photographs.

ORNITHOLOGY by Frank B. Gill

(New York: W. H. Freeman and Company, 2007.) An ornithology text with all the details about the scientific study of birds.

THE SINGING LIFE OF BIRDS: THE ART AND SCIENCE OF LISTENING TO BIRDSONG by Donald Kroodsma

(Boston: Houghton-Mifflin Co., 2005.) Thirty stories about birdsong, focusing on how to listen to selected, common species.

NATURE’S MUSIC edited by Peter Marler and Hans Slabbekoorn

(New York: Academic Press, 2004.) An authoritative, somewhat technical volume on birdsong, written by working scientists.

THE BIRDS OF NORTH AMERICA ONLINE edited by Alan Poole

(Ithaca: Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology; http://bna.birds.cornell.edu/BNA/) The ultimate source for everything you’d like to know about any of the more than seven hundred species that occur in the United States and Canada.

A GUIDE TO BIRD SONGS by Aretas A. Saunders

(Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1951.)

A delightful guide to birdsong by an early, skilled listener.

BIRDSONG by Don Stap

(New York City: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2005.) A profile of two men, Donald Kroodsma and the Macaulay Library’s Greg Budney, who are obsessed with birdsong.