Pocket PC for bird calls

["Roger Giller" <>]

Thanks to Howard and all the others who posted or replied on this topic and 
my original post on the cost of Bird Call CDs .
After following the correspondence resulting from my original query on the 
cost of bird-call CDs compared to printed field guides I am more than 
satisfied that they are good value and can fully appreciate the amount of 
effort involved in their compilation. I will own a set one day.
It was not so much the actual cost that troubled me but the cost disparity 
in comparison with a printed field guide. Perhaps I should have asked "Why 
are printed field guides so cheap?" Doubtless it is a matter of the size of 
the market. I know lots of non-birders who carry a field guide on their 
travels (fellow fishers or caravanners) but would not be interested in a  CD 
of bird calls even if it was free.
Roger Giller.