Recently updated for Microsoft Vista and the Apple iPOD, this CD-ROM is the most comprehensive interactive electronic guide to birds in the world. A collaboration of Cornell Lab of Ornithology and Thayer Birding Software the Guide to Birds of North America v3.9 features all 926 birds ever seen in the U.S. or Canada (excluding Hawaii) and is compatible with Windows XP and Vista.
The Thayer Guide to Birds of North American CD can help you identify unfamiliar birds. Simply select the color, size, habitat, location or sound of your bird and the program will show you everything that matches your description!
The Thayer CD is so much more than a bird identification tool!
This incredible Windows-based CD-ROM includes 2,700 color photos and songs and sonograms for 700 species, 700 entertaining quizzes and 90 video clips are also included. But the Thayer CD is so much more than a bird identification tool. It is a treasure chest of bird knowledge, an entire teaching platform in my opinion. Its a screen saver, a life list, a testing system and quiz builder (with a talking bird). Just take a close look at the features listed below and I am sure you will agree this is one phenomenal product.
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Indentify Unknown Birds - by color, size, habitat, location and even by sound
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View over 2,700 color photos
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Listen to songs of over 700 species - a spectrogram shows the voice pattern
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Range maps as well as seasonal abundance maps show you where to find the birds
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Take over 700 quizzes - now in four different formats!
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Get tips to quickly identifying the birds you see
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90 videos show birds and their behavior
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Make screen savers -- that sing!
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See the five birds most often confused with your bird
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View all the birds in an entire bird Family
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Export songs and photos to an MP3 player, such as an iPod
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Make a Life List of all the birds you have ever seen
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Create Custom Lists to share or use as quizzes, screen savers and more
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See the entire contents of The Birder's Handbook (a 700 page book)
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Add you own photos, comments and web links to each species
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See the bird's names in English, Spanish, French or German.
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See Alias names for the birds
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Sort birds six different ways (alphabetical by first or last name, taxonomic, etc)
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Listen as Petey the Parrot reads the bird's names -- he will even tell jokes!
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Links to other web sites help you learn even more.
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An extensive electronic Help File makes it easy to do anything
System Requirements
Windows 2000, XP and Vista
Pentium 4 processor or equivalent
256 MB RAM; CD-ROM drive
50 MB on hard drive
Hardware and software required to support multimedia applications
Some features of this CD-ROM require an Internet connection
