Bird Song and Bird Behavior

by Donald J. Borror

A classic work examining bird song as both a means of identification and study of behavior, and citing 72 species and 51 songs. Includes 50-minute cassette and 64-page manual with sound spectographs and illustrations of 21 birds.

64 pages, Paperback

First published February 1, 1971

About the author

Donald Joyce Borror was a professor of entomology and zoology at Ohio State University. He founded the Borror Laboratory of Bioacoustics at the university, which houses one of the largest collections of recorded animal sounds in the world - it has more than 30,000 recordings of over 1400 species of animals.

As an entomologist and naturalist, he is known best as an expert on the order Odonata (dragonflies & damselflies), and for his book An Introduction to the Study of Insects.