Note: this is about the predecessor of Birds of Tropical Asia 3.

Birds of Tropical Asia 2

Sounds and Sights

Jelle Scharringa

CD-ROM for Windows 95 / 98 / ME / 2000 / XP

Blue-winged Pitta Pitta moluccensis. © F.G. Rozendaal.

Bird Songs International proudly presents "Birds of Tropical Asia 2", by Jelle Scharringa. This revolutionary CD-ROM for Windows contains 1431 sound recordings (14 hours!) of 697 species, 406 photographs of 310 species, all presented in an extremely user-friendly format. Any sound recording, any photo is seconds away, accessible by just a few keyclicks! Read the reviews of the first version!

Jelle Scharringa recording a Gurney's Pitta. Ban Thieo, Khao Phra Bang Khram,
Krabi Province, Thailand. End of April 1988. Photo by Linda Schrijver.

Contains sounds of 30 species of Pheasants, 25 Cuckoos, 21 Owls, 6 Frogmouths, 19 Barbets, 19 Pittas, 133 Babblers, 9 Parrotbills, 72 Warblers & Prinias, and many more!

Covers the area known as the Oriental Region, which consists of the Indian subcontinent, southeast Asia including southern China, the Philippines, Taiwan and Indonesia except the easternmost islands.

New features: besides having more recordings and more photos of more species, the CD-ROM also has a number of new features:
- Playlists. You can now compose your own playlists, which can be stored on disk between sessions, and exchanged by e-mail (see the screenshots to get the idea.)
- Area selection. You can now select an area, where all presented species must occur (so for example, if you select China and The Philippines, only the species occurring in China and/or in The Philippines are shown.)
- Photographs of 35 well-known birding localities. See one of the screenshots for an illustration.
- The user can choose between the "Clements 2000" and the "Sibley & Monroe" systematic orders.

Please:

• have a look at a screen shot with 800 x 600 pixels,
• or screen shot A with 1152 x 864 pixels (285 KB),
• or screen shot B with 1152 x 864 pixels (229 KB),
• or screen shot C with 1024 x 768 pixels (shows the locality photos feature, 202 KB),
• or listen to some example sound recordings.

or see:

• the species list,
• errata and "patch" program,
• the program bugs,
• the reviews,
• about copying sounds to minidisc or audio CD
• other things about the first version of the CD-ROM,
• or send a message to Jelle Scharringa.

Published 2001 by Bird Songs International.

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