I subscribed, too, and it's really nice to have all the information a few
clicks away. The website has been set up to discourage printing, however,
with a disingenuous explanation that this is because things are being
constantly updated.

Pretty hard to swallow that one.

Paul Webster
Seattle
paul.websterATcomcast.net

----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott Downes" <downess at charter.net>
To: <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
Sent: Friday, September 30, 2005 4:30 PM
Subject: [Tweeters] re: The Birds Of North America Online


> Dick and other Tweeters,
> I subscribed to BNA online for the first time this year and have been
> pleased. The information online is the same as the hard copies which
> unless
> you are at a place that carries the complete set can be tough to access.
> This subscription, which I believe is 30.00 per year makes it easy to
> search
> for information, including tabs to the information you might have to page
> through in the hard copy. The search engines and setup are also very user
> friendly. Also included on this are picture and audio files of most
> species,
> as well as the sonograms found in the hard copies. The audio files even
> contain more obscure tracks such as the alternate song of Grasshopper
> sparrow (the bubbly tinkling song). I would recommend it to somebody who
> would normally have need to look up the information that is contained in
> the
> BNA accounts.
> I hope this review helps those of you who are wondering the same question
> as
> posed below by Dick.
>
> Good birding and researching.
>
> Scott Downes
> downess at charter.net
> Yakima WA
>
>
>
>
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> I'm interested in hearing your reviews of "The Birds of North America
> Online"
> from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and The American Ornithologists'
> Union.
>
>
>
> Thanks,
> Dick Martin
> Wenathcee Valley
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>
>
>