Countryside Birds: An audio guide to bird sounds of the British countryside

The British Library have added two new titles to their range of audio guides (Coastal Birds is also available). Countryside Birds contains recordings of 65 species, the ones you are most likely to encounter. The birds are ordered into three ‘clumps’ on the CD: woodland/scrub birds; open country/upland birds and birds of wetter areas, to help conjure up the atmosphere of each of the main habitat types. Can be used as an identification guide – especially useful if you are just interested in identifying bird song you hear during a walk, or can be used to evoke the sounds of the countryside.

Book reviewed by Su Gough