The Great Backyard Bird Count is an annual four-day event that engages bird watchers of all ages in counting birds to create a real-time snapshot of where the birds are across the continent. Anyone can participate, from beginning bird watchers to experts. It takes as little as 15 minutes on one day, or you can count for as long as you like each day of the event. It's free, fun, and easy-and it helps the birds."

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Audio Guides

Birding by Ear, by Richard K. Walton and Robert W. Lawson, 1989, Peterson Field Guides. 3 cassettes.

Common Birds and Their Songs, by Lang Elliott and Marie Read, 1998, 127 pp.  Book with full-page photos for each of the 50 common species covered on the 65-minute audio CD.

Field Guide to Bird Songs -- Eastern/Central North America, by Roger Tory Peterson, 1990. 2 cassettes or 1 CD.  Keyed by page number to Peterson's 4th edition of Field Guide to the Birds East of the Rockies. Songs and calls are recorded for over 250 species. Booklet gives location of recording.

Guide to Bird Sounds, Cornell Lab of Ornithology, 1985. 2 cassettes or 1 CD.  Keyed by page number to the National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America, both editions. Calls, songs, trills, and other sounds are recorded for 179 species.

Know Your Bird Sounds Volume 1: Yard, Garden and City Birds, Volume 2: Birds of the Countryside, by Lang Elliott, revised 1994, Northward Press. Each volume is a 65-minute cassette.