Birds, Birds, Birds! An Indoor Birdwatching Field Trip DVD Video Bird and Bird Song Guide
Description
The DVD can be viewed on the living room TV or on personal computers as a 70-minute bird-filled documentary. It also serves as an audio/visual reference guide– one can use the easy-to-use menus to quickly find a particular bird (it contains 218 species found in Midwest and Eastern North America). The DVD is full of extraordinary photography, bird songs and with video footage.
Some features unique to the DVD include a collection of 18 quizzes and a section for comparing similar-sounding birds (for example, melodic, buzzy or unmusical). The narration for each bird does not occur immediately, allowing the viewer to guess what bird she is hearing and seeing. This quiz format keeps the viewer in a state of wonder and makes learning to identify birds more engaging and fun.
The focus of the narration is bird song and bird song mnemonics (such as “Who’s awake? Me too” of the Great Horned Owl, or “Quick, three beers!” of the Olive-sided Flycatcher). Also, a bonus “Soundscape” track is included without narration to simulate a field trip to different habitats such as marsh, grassland and forest. This creates a very relaxing natural background which, along with the bird photos, can keep bird-watchers of any level, kids, babies, and pets (especially cats) enthralled for hours.
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Unless you are an avid bird watcher and need resource material for north american bird sounds, this DVD is otherwise a waste of money. Spend the extra money and buy “the Life of Birds”.
Rating: 2 / 5
Birds, Birds, Birds! An Indoor Birdwatching Field Trip DVD Video Bird and Bird Song Guide
This video looks great, but my comment is about ET Ashworth’s irresponsible comment about the Audubon VideoGuide DVD’s below. There was a production problem with a batch of DVDs and the publisher has worked tirelessly to make those affected satisfied customers. I don’t know what Ashworth’s problem is but if he had contacted the publisher at Mastervision he would not be sniping now. I know this because I have talked to many of the affected by phone, reviewed the problems (which were introduced during manufacturing of disk one), and made sure they either received chargebacks or good working disks.
I’m ordering Birds Birds Birds because it looks to me like it does something different than the Audubon Society VideoGuides, and I find that there is so much about birds to know that a lot of sources are not only helpful, but a necessity.
Rating: 5 / 5
Birds, Birds, Birds! An Indoor Birdwatching Field Trip DVD Video Bird and Bird Song Guide
Bought this for my kitty. The first time I played it she was interested, but the second time and subsequent times she’s not been interested at all. She knows they aren’t real. There are too many indiscrepancies: sound coming from speakers, no movement, etc.
The video itself would be a lot better for cats if:
(a) all scenes had motion; a lot are stills
(b) you could turn off the human “commentary” (distracting)
(c) all scenes were at least 60 seconds in length; most of these are very short (10-15sec)
In summary Kitty would have been a lot happier if I had spent the money on a small bird at the pet shop and brought it home for her to kill.
Rating: 2 / 5
Birds, Birds, Birds! An Indoor Birdwatching Field Trip DVD Video Bird and Bird Song Guide
Not an all encompassing view of local birds. Not user friendly interface.
Difficulty in finding specific information.
Rating: 2 / 5
Birds, Birds, Birds! An Indoor Birdwatching Field Trip DVD Video Bird and Bird Song Guide
I was very disappointed in this DVD. It was a DVD for someone who wanted only the very basic information on birds. The DVD was very short and could have added a lot of expanded details. The ability to view details of color and details of wing, tail bands, etc would have offered a much better learning tool. It also could have had the bird call longer throughout a longer display of bird colorations.
Rating: 1 / 5
Birds, Birds, Birds! An Indoor Birdwatching Field Trip DVD Video Bird and Bird Song Guide