I bought my kids a few books about bird songs, one is The Backyard Bird Song Book, another is Bird Songs from Around the World, and the last is A Guide to Night Sounds. We are staying at my parent's for a while, and they live in a remote spot, so there are a lot of birds chirping, especially at this time of year. A couple weeks ago, my son came down and said he kept hearing a noise every morning and wondered what it was. He repeated the sound to me, "heee hoooo". I knew it must be a bird, so I got out the Backyard Bird Songs and we ended up identifying the bird.
The Backyard Bird Songs book is easy to use and it's a sound book that you won't get annoyed by your child having because it produces sounds you'd hear anyways. For each bird, there is a page of information, then a color picture of the bird. Above the picture, there are two numbers, one for the bird's song and one for a call. After playing the songs in order, we identified the bird as a black capped chickadee (the Massachusetts state bird). Later that day, we were outside with the book, and as my son played the song, a real black capped chickadee in the yard would repeat the song back, it was really cool.
For part of my second grader's and kindergartener's work on birds, they have a list of twelve birds who they have to learn to identify by their song.
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