BOOK REVIEW: Bird Songs of the Pacific Northwest

Abstract

This set of five compact disks contains 931 separate recordings covering 316 species from the Pacific Northwest. This area is not defined, but to judge from a map on the back cover of the booklet it includes southwestern British Columbia, all of Washington and Oregon, the canyonlands of southwestern Idaho, and about a 100-mile swath of northern California. Each species receives its own track. Each track begins with the species’ name, and individual cuts within each track are separated by a brief pause.