My roommate has an old record from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology that I love to listen to. It's supposed to accompany the Peterson Field Guide to Birds of North America, but we don't have that book, so there is something anti-anti-mimetic about hearing a narrator tell me the name of the bird, the page on which it appears, and then a recording of the bird to match its illustration in a book that does not exist for me.
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