Better Birdwatching in the Mountain West Ecoregion A CD-ROM Guide to Identifying and Finding Birds Price: $49.95 The Mountain West Ecoregion includes the Rocky Mountains and adjacent areas. Here is a map of the region: Why get this CD? Are you trying to learn more about birds? Family and species screens and interactive quizzes provide an immersive multimedia learning experience that teaches the principles of bird identification. Are you looking for some good places to go birdwatching? Maps for each state in the Mountain West Ecoregion (w. Colorado, e. Washington, e. Oregon, Idaho, w. Montana, Wyoming, Nevada, and Utah) provide links to parks and refuges. Each location features a bird checklist (linked to bird screens), travel tips, and camping info. Are you ready to go into the field and do some real birding? Print out the bird checklists and travel and observation tips, and take them with you! Over 1000 photos for 250 species Nearly 600 videos for over 200 species Over 650 sounds for over 200 species Over 200 interactive quizzes Range maps for 474 species Places where you can find each species Bird checklists for over 200 parks & refuges Travel & observation tips for over 200 parks & refuges Better Birdwatching in the Mountain West provides comprehensive information about bird species found in region known as the Mountain West Ecoregion (see map). Dr. Robert Bailey developed the Ecoregion concept. Ecoregions are "ecosystems of a regional extent." Ecoregions are delineated based on characteristics of climate, soils and geography, which lead to unique forms of vegetation, which in turn leads to unique bird life. The Mountain West region is further divided into many subregions. The computer CD-ROM format allows you to easily learn about the concept of ecoregions in addition to providing multimedia content about the birds of the Mountain West. From the alphabetical and checklist indexes, you can access information about bird families and species. Family screens teach beginners how birds are organized into groups. Highlighted text plays sounds and video clips or links you to the species screens. (Species in bold text are reliably found in the ecoregion, while those in plain text are considered unreliable or rare in the ecoregion.) Species screens for the reliable species include pictures, video and/or audio. The species photo screens use text boxes and arrows to point out key identifying characteristics. The species video screens provide textual descriptions of the sounds and video clips. Video clips can also be viewed frame by frame. Range maps are available for all 470 species. The range map also serves as a bird finder by providing a list of parks and refuges where the species occurs, broken down into the categories of common, uncommon and rare. The Betterbird Quizzes challenge you to guess the species from a series of audio visual clues. If you guess correctly, the parrot rings the bell. System Requirements: At least a 100 MHz processor, 16 MB of RAM, 2X CD-ROM drive, monitor capable of displaying 640 X 480 pixels and thousands/16 bit color. Microsoft Windows: Pentium, Windows 95, 98, 2000 and NT. Macintosh: Power PC, System 7.5 or higher. Price $49.95 Birdwatching Dot Com Home Other Birding CD-ROMs Other Birding Software FAQ | Tips | Stories | Videos | Optics | Bookstore | Birding | Gifts | Orders