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Product Description Based on Stanley Cramp's definitive and critically acclaimed nine-volume Birds of the Western Palearctic and on the new revised concise edition, this Windows CD-ROM is the most authoritative resourse for ornithologists. The hundreds of video clips, sound recordings, colour plates, photographs, and illustrations make it both comprehensive and easy-to-use. Flexible searching techniques allow you to use the material in ways which would be impossible using the printed editions and that will save you hours of time in your research. * Search and cross-reference across 9,000 pages and 600 colour plates in seconds * Bookmarking, notemaking, and recording facilities allow you to incorporate your own observations and quickly access the secitons which are most useful to you * The CD-ROM can be customized for 6 European languages - Dutch, French, German, Italian, Spanish, and Swedish System requirements: Windows 3.1, Windows 95, or Windows NT. Pentium processor strongly recommended. 16Mb RAM. Quad-speed CD-ROM drive (or faster). Screen set to 64K colours at 800 x 600 resolution. 16-bit sound card. Review '...a wonderful reference source...' Watford Observer '...For the serious ornithologist "The Complete Birds of the Western Palearctic" is the reference tool...' Oldham Evening Chronicle '...an extremely useful way of revising information which was committed to print more than 20 years ago. But the raison d'etre is the additional multimedia material, and the video clips are first class...' THES About the Author C. M. Perrins, Professor, both at Edward Grey Institute of Field Ornithology.