Common Bird Songs

by Donald J. Borror

The songs and calls of 60 different, widely distributed birds of the United States and Canada reproduced on CD. Accompanying book describes and comments on the songs and calls on the CD. Each bird is illustrated, and appendices give place of recordings and sound spectrographs of typical songs. 50-minute CD and 64-page book.

64 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 1984

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.