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75 of 75 found the following review helpful:
 Exceptionally well done! Mar 27, 2005
By fan of quality products
"turmfalke22"
I love this DVD! The pictures are pristine and show both sexes, the video footage sprinkled thoughout is excellent, and the sound recordings are first rate as well. The mnemonic approach is original and "fixes" the sounds more easily in your memory. I find the female narrator's voice very pleasant and easy to understand. A treat for anyone who wants to learn just which bird it is whose song and calls fill the air, especially in the spring. Oh, and another wonderful plus: Great entertainment for my two lovebirds! It cracked me up when my male belted out the song of the Indigo bunting in near-perfect imitation. A companion CD is also available so you can listen to bird songs anywhere (or entertain your birds).
Please note: this DVD has but one aim: to familiarize the viewer/listener with birds and their songs and calls. If you want to learn more about these birds, I recommend Stokes' Field Guide to Birds, simply because it packs the most information on the same page of any guide that I own. For identification purposes and range, Sibley's Guide to Birds, in my opinion, is unsurpassed. And once your interest in birds leads you to ask more questions, by all means, treat yourself to Sir David Attenborough's marvelous The Life of Birds. I have both, the DVD set and the book, and I can only urge you to get the companion book as well since it is so wonderfully written. I found that I learned even more by reading the book after I had first watched the series on PBS. Sibley's Guide to Bird Behavior is also highly recommended.
There is a wealth of information out there on these feathered wonders, but for sheer beauty and clarity of sound, this DVD is worth every penny!
27 of 27 found the following review helpful:
Simple but Impressive Jul 05, 2005
By Bonita A. Portzline
"peacekeys"
Truly, I am enjoying "Birds! Birds! Birds!" and I am purchasing a second for the friend who patiently got me into birding back when I could just about tell that a Robin is not a Cardinal. Its photography and/or videography of each Eastern bird is impressive. More than a few of the shots are artistic and not just a 'make-do' illustration. The quality of the audio is fine, and the examples of calls and songs seem to be quite useful. Curiously, I am recalling more of the mnemonic devices (such as "ee-oh-lay" for the Wood Thrush) because of the narrator's voice which is female. Though not in-depth (like the birdsong collection by Peterson's Field Guides) this is, nevertheless, as they say, a bang for the buck. (And I saved nearly $10 buying mine from one of the other new/used sellers - located in my region.) There is no accompanying booklet; and that might be a problem for some folks. However, the DVD menu lets you go to the index. There's also a category of "Sounds Like..." To stretch your knowledge, there are numerous quizzes. I can imagine that birders of less than expert capabilities - such as myself - might even take this along to view and hear on a laptop or on a car DVD player to be able to check on characteristics while in the field.
20 of 20 found the following review helpful:
Anatomy of Birdsong Jun 20, 2005
By Kevin Killian
With Birds, Birds, Birds John Feith reaches a whole new audience, especially of young people who didn't have the patience to sit through a whole CD without visual accompaniment, such as his wonderful compilation, Who Cooks For Poor Sam Peabody?
I recommend this DVD to anyone who enjoyed Sam Peabody, for now you can see the actual birds who made the memorable mnemonics in the CD (not all of them, but enough to make you sit up and take notice). The whole point is to get to recognize the song and be able to identify it, and with this one-two punch you should be able to attain that objective without ever leaving your house. Here in California we are lucky enough to get regular visitors from the upper Midwest, and among them are the migrating birds. And yet viewing the fabulous color photography of BBB, I found myself wishing that I lived in Wisconsin. It's so beautiful and it almost seems you can hear the birds more clearly than you can in the California fog.
Feith provides essential support to the burgeoning community of those who would like an easy, refreshing way to fix the song of your favorite winged friend in your mind. Here you see them sing, you hear them sing, and you remember their song, the most precious and puzzling gift in the universe
16 of 16 found the following review helpful:
Great, Great, Great! Feb 09, 2005
By Joe Riederer
This is a fantastic DVD! When I get home from a hectic day at school, the sights and sounds on this disk calm me down and reminds me of the promise of spring birds soon to return. The "quiz" format is a fun way to review my bird ID skills. As a middle school science teacher, I plan to use this feature with my students. The audio, photographs and videos are all of excellent quality. I strongly recommend this DVD!
15 of 16 found the following review helpful:
 Bird songs galore Jul 13, 2006
By Hollister/Brooklyn
The DVD provided an image or images of the bird whose call we were hearing. Sometimes photos only, sometimes actual video of the bird. A woman described the call and imitated it, in human terms. She was excellent. First we just started the DVD and for an hour were treated to innumerable bird calls, from all over. Since we were trying to learn birdcalls, it was overwhelming. Then we discovered that there was an alphabetical index and we could choose which bird to hear.
I would have liked to see a better format where birds were grouped by family, perhaps, and a bit more information provided; like migration paths, mating habits and how the families developed and when the chicks went out on their own, for example. Perhaps there's another video that does just that.
But Birds Birds Birds is the first bird call DVD we ever heard or purchased. Holly/Brooklyn
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