How to go out birding and experience bird encounters without actually and physically getting out of your home: reading this book. Perfect!

Interesting and beautiful, but dense. Maybe I’ll return someday.

Changed how I listen to birds.

While I learned a lot by reading (most of) this book, the journal-style manner of writing started to wear on me.

absolutely fascinating. good writer, too.

Imagine a field biologist who could explain his field experiments in the form of travel/nature writing. That's Kroodsma. Book also comes with a lovely CD.

Among the best birding books I've ever read. A masterful piece of work.

this spendid and magnificently illustrated collection has kept me captivated for months now....and actually inspired me to begin a new series of paintings based upon my decades as an avid bird watcher. some evenings i just browse the rich color plates and other evenings i read a story or two...always calms me by providing yet another glimpse into the winged ones ways of natural rhythms plus i so enjoy the tremendously diverse writing styles and as mentioned... the art throughout

I'm hoping to sell a review of this book to a bird magazine. It comes with a CD.

Fascinating data about birdsong.

for serious birders only, and even then i recommend skimming through most of it. but a fascinating subject, and comes with a great CD of birdsongs, which are broken down millisecond by millisecond in the book via sonograms.

I had been a birder for over 10 years when I read this book. It opened my eyes to how amazing birds are - and I already thought they were pretty amazing.