A Guide to Night Sounds

For country lovers and city-dwellers alike, Elliott presents this wonderful guide to the sounds animals make at night. Recorded at his company, NatureSound Studio in Ithaca, New York, this guidebook-CD compilation includes an hour's worth of bird calls (from thrushes to herons to owls), alligators growls, frog croaks and various mammal noises. He narrates each one of the more than 60 animals in a soothing, Mr. Roger's inflected voice: e.g.""among my favorite mammalian sounds are the barks, yips and howls of the coyote"";""there's the forest dwelling whip-poor-will, whose whistled notes spring forth from Eastern forests just as thrush songs fade away"";""the woodcock... a plump, rather silly looking bird with a long fleshy beak that it uses to probe in moist ground for earthworms at night."" While listening to these sounds--clear and distinct--one can flip through the book to view pencil drawings and color photos (not seen by PW) of each animal. In all, Elliott has compiled a sweet, concise nature guide.