Multimedia Guides

These CD-ROMs and DVD-ROMs allow you to hone your skills in identifying birds from the detailed information, photographs, video clips and bird song recordings.

The DVD-ROM Guide to British Birds - Version 7; BirdGuides; 2001 The DVD-ROM has the same content as the CD-ROM but includes additional video footage. Further, this latest version has been substantially improved to make better use of larger screens, thus allowing the species list and bird file to be viewed all the time. There are more quizzes, too. Simply a masterpiece! Buy from Amazon

The CD-ROM Guide to British Birds - Version 6; BirdGuides; 2000 This splendid multimedia package just gets better and now has pictures, descriptions, commentary, video clips and sound clips of 330 species seen in Britain and Ireland, which includes some of our rarer visiting species. There are two CD-ROMs, so you may have to swap a lot if you don't have two CD-ROM players, though there is a DVD-ROM version. Buy from Amazon

The CD-ROM Guide to Rarer British Birds; BirdGuides; 2001 This CD-ROM offers details of all the rare birds to have visited Britain, comprising: video clips; lists of all the records of each species recorded, as published by the British Birds Rarities Committee; graphs and maps derived from this data; references to all the papers, notes and photos published in the British Birds, Birding World and Twitching journals since 1971; and much more. Buy from Amazon

Birds of Europe; Focus Multimedia Limited This CD-ROM is a guide to 310 species with photographs, sound clips and video footage. Cheaper but less detailed than the BirdGuides CD-ROM, it is still excellent and capable of working on older PCs. Buy from Amazon