'Know Your Owls' - CD-ROM by Axia Knowledge Products

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Interactive Multimedia CD-ROM. A Complete reference guide to "a rodent's worst nightmare" - the 19 different species of North American Owls. Hundreds of photos, full motion videos, sound clips, range maps, descriptions of adults, juveniles, and morph variations. Very easy to use - anyone can learn in minutes. Runs on 486 or higher PC with CD-ROM, Windows 3.1, 95, or 98, 8 MB RAM and sound card. Over a half-gigabyte of information! Ages 10-adult.

The World's Most Powerful Birding Software
Axia's patented Recognition Training System is the most effective method ever invented to learn to identify birds. No other birding program can simultaneously present different aspects of the same species, or similar views of different species, side-by side on your computer screen. In "Challenge mode", this comparative ability lets you become an expert while playing an entertaining game. Users can tailor the program to focus on whatever they especially want to learn, or let Axia add new questions as the old ones are answered correctly. Because this teaching technique is natural and fun, Axia hones your skills without headaches!

Split Screen Species Comparison Photos can be zoomed to full screen	Detailed Range Maps

Simply no Better Way to Learn
Until now, learning to identify birds has involved endless flipping between field guides, comparing photos with sketches, straining to hear snippets of sound on cassette tapes. Axia has changed all that, by creating the world's first interactive field guides for your personal computer. Outstanding wildlife photos can be zoomed to full screen all digitised with stunning Kodak Photo CD clarity. In addition, video clips are available for many species, along with crystal clear digital sound. Want to compare the calls of two similar species? Now you can, with the click of a button! Compare two range maps in a split-screen display? One more click! Each Axia disc is a virtual library of books, videos and sounds. In addition to the Owls themselves, each Axia disc also presents a wealth of information about habitat, predators and prey and ecology.

Wayne Campbell
Senior Editor Mr. Campbell is one of North America's most respected field naturalists, and a Fellow of the American Ornithologists' Union. He is the author of dozens of books, and hundreds of scientific papers. Axia is proud to introduce the work of this distinguished scientist in the exciting CD-ROM format.

The Experts Choice
Developed with input from the US Fish & Wildlife Service, Axia's Wildlife series has delighted both birders and professional naturalists. Each Axia disc is built from scratch to make full use of interactive multimedia technology; these are not just re-issues of old books or videos! Hundreds of full-screen colour photos have been sorted from North America's top profesional wildlife photographers. Raptor sketches by Brian K. Wheeler are reproduced in full colour. Colourful relief maps illustrate the range of every, species. Pages of expert text can be printed, or copied to the clipboard for use in any standard word-processing program - a feature that earns Axia an "A+" with students.

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